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Hey folks,

I'm in a bit of a jam here. I'm writing a script that will auto-configure the Atheros WLAN Client Utility for a certain SSID. The problem I've run into is the section where you'd go to change profile settings was written using standard System32 controls, rather than clickable buttons and such.

Here's a screenshot:

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What I need to do is select the "Profile Management" tab from that window and make it the active tab. So far I'm not having any luck. This is what I've got so far:

; Script Start
Opt("TrayIconHide", 1)
Opt("WinWaitDelay",100)
Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",1)
Opt("WinDetectHiddenText",1)

; Launches the config tool
Run(@ProgramFilesDir & '\WLAN\ACU.exe')

; Modify the default profile name and SSID
WinWait("WLAN Client Utility")
If Not WinActive("WLAN Client Utility") Then WinActivate("WLAN Client Utility")
WinWaitActive("WLAN Client Utility")
ControlListView ( "WLAN Client Utility", "", "SysTabControl32", "Select", "Profile Management" )

I'm sure somewhere I've gone horribly wrong, and if it would help I can paste the output of the AutoIt Window Info tool for that particular window... Much thanks in advance!

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You are not going to make it work with ControlListView when the first line in the help file says "Sends a command to a ListView32 control."

Try ControlCommand()

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or

_GUICtrlTab_SetCurSel from latest beta

I don't think the window shown is an AutoIt window and I'm thinking that _GUICtrlTab_SetCurSel won't work on an external window.

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Ok, I tried using:

ControlCommand("WLAN Client Utility", "", "SysTabControl321", "TabRight", "")

And that worked to switch the tab to the right. The thing is, this program doesn't always start in the default view of Current Status, but instead opens right up to Profile Management, in which case a TabRight wouldn't be what I'd want to do. Should I add an If Else for that, or is there a better way to be sure I'm on the correct tab?

Edit -- Thought about it a bit more, I guess I'd need to do a While loop then, until the correct window text appears to know it's on the right tab...

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Ok, I tried using:

ControlCommand("WLAN Client Utility", "", "SysTabControl321", "TabRight", "")

And that worked to switch the tab to the right. The thing is, this program doesn't always start in the default view of Current Status, but instead opens right up to Profile Management, in which case a TabRight wouldn't be what I'd want to do. Should I add an If Else for that, or is there a better way to be sure I'm on the correct tab?

Edit -- Thought about it a bit more, I guess I'd need to do a While loop then, until the correct window text appears to know it's on the right tab...

See "CurrentTab" on the same page. Use that to check which tab is current. You could put it in a While/Wend or a Do/Until

EDIT: Btw I'm not sure if CurrentTab will return the text on the tab or the tab index number which will probably be 0 based. Test it with a message box.

Edited by GEOSoft

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I don't think the window shown is an AutoIt window and I'm thinking that _GUICtrlTab_SetCurSel won't work on an external window.

You are NOT right.

All _GUICtrlTab_xxx functions work also with external applications.

Look at:

_GUICtrlTab_GetCurSel

_GUICtrlTab_GetItemCount

_GUICtrlTab_GetItemText

_GUICtrlTab_SetCurSel

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See "CurrentTab" on the same page. Use that to check which tab is current. You could put it in a While/Wend or a Do/Until

EDIT: Btw I'm not sure if CurrentTab will return the text on the tab or the tab index number which will probably be 0 based. Test it with a message box.

MsgBox(0, "", ControlCommand("WLAN Client Utility", "", "SysTabControl321", "CurrentTab", "Profile Managment") ) returns 3 for "Profile Management", "Current Status" and "Diagnostics". Am I doing something incorrect or do they really all have the same tab id?

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MsgBox(0, "", ControlCommand("WLAN Client Utility", "", "SysTabControl321", "CurrentTab", "Profile Managment") ) returns 3 for "Profile Management", "Current Status" and "Diagnostics". Am I doing something incorrect or do they really all have the same tab id?

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Look into AutoIt's beta 3.2.9.3 helpfile at these functions...

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When I use the _GUICtrlTab_SetCurSel($hWnd, $index) command, it clicks the tab, but doesn't switch to it. Is that what it's supposed to do?

Yea. Use _GUICtrlTab_SetCurFocus to switch.

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That doesn't work either. In the example for SetCurSel it works, but that uses _GUICtrlTab_InsertItem instead of GUICtrlCreateTabItem, but when I switched my code to _GUICtrlTab_InsertItem, all of my controls were drawn on top of each other, simply ignoring the tabs...

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If you are using a switch statement in your main Msg loop then you can use

Case $Tab;;; Change to the name you gave your GUICtrlCreateTab()
 GUICtrlSetState(GUICtrlRead($Tab), 16)

Or for a select statement it would be

Case $Msg = $Tab;; again change the variable names to suit your code
   GUICtrlSetState(GUICtrlRead($Tab), 16)

Then there is the ever popular

If GUIGetMsg() = $Tab Then
   GUICtrlSetState(GUICtrlRead($Tab), 16)
EndIf
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So you wanna say this works only for me?

#include <GuiTab.au3>

GUICreate("", 400, 300)
$cTab = GUICtrlCreateTab(0, 30, 400, 270)
GUICtrlCreateTabItem("1")
GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("#1", 50, 150, 100, 20)
GUICtrlCreateTabItem("2")
GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("#2", 55, 150, 100, 20)
GUICtrlCreateTabItem("3")
GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("#3", 60, 150, 100, 20)
GUICtrlCreateTabItem("")
$b1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Switch to #1", 20, 5, 100, 20)
$b2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Switch to #2", 140, 5, 100, 20)
$b3 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Switch to #3", 260, 5, 100, 20)
GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case -3
            Exit
        Case $b1
            _GUICtrlTab_SetCurFocus($cTab, 0)
        Case $b2
            _GUICtrlTab_SetCurFocus($cTab, 1)
        Case $b3
            _GUICtrlTab_SetCurFocus($cTab, 2)
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Note if you use _GUICtrlTab_SetCurSel instead _GUICtrlTab_SetCurFocus, the tab won't actually switch (controls in page won't change).

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Ohhhh... it doesn't work when you have the tab set to $TCS_BUTTONS style. That may be a bug...

As a workaround, you can do this:

GUICtrlSetStyle($cTab, 0)
    _GUICtrlTab_SetCurFocus($cTab, $iIndex)
    GUICtrlSetStyle($cTab, $TCS_BUTTONS)
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Ohhhh... it doesn't work when you have the tab set to $TCS_BUTTONS style. That may be a bug...

I'm still having issues with SysTabControl32 myself. Just making this change to Siao's script breaks it:
$cTab = GUICtrlCreateTab(0, 30, 400, 270, $TCS_BUTTONS)

In the help file under _GuiCtrlTab_SetCurFocus():

Remarks

If the tab control has the $TCS_BUTTONS style (button mode), the tab with the focus may be

different from the selected tab. For example, when a tab is selected, the user can press the

arrow keys to set the focus to a different tab without changing the selected tab. In button

mode, $TCM_SETCURFOCUS sets the input focus to the button associated with the specified tab,

but it does not change the selected tab.

If the tab control does not have the $TCS_BUTTONS style, changing the focus also changes the selected tab.

And under _GuiCtrlTab_SetCurSel():

Remarks

A tab control does not send a $TCN_SELCHANGING or $TCN_SELCHANGE notification message when a tab is selected using this function.

So, must we use _SendMessage() to fire the appropriate events in the app that owns the Tab control? Should all functions I write for tab controls first check the style and then use custom _SendMessage()'s to make it work? I think I can code that to work, but I wonder if I'm missing a cleaner solution...

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See post #16. I think this could work on external tabs too. Just with _WinAPI_GetWindowLong/_WinAPI_SetWindowLong instead of Gui...Style functions of course.

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See post #16. I think this could work on external tabs too. Just with _WinAPI_GetWindowLong/_WinAPI_SetWindowLong instead of Gui...Style functions of course.

Actually, when I went to try that with my real-time script, the _GuiCtrlTab_SetCurFocus() worked without it. I missed something in my own set up somewhere. Using both ..._SetCurSel() and ..._SetCurFocus() didn't work, so I had put ControlSend($hWin, "", $Tab, "^{TAB}") in as a workaround. When I put ...SetCurFocus() back it just worked.

In the meantime, I did read out the style = 0x54030200, which doesn't even have $TCS_BUTTONS set anyway!

The problem was more likely mine, but I wonder if anything to do with this was fixed in 3.2.12.0, which I'm now running?

:)

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