Change Gui Title

[the_lord_mephy]

Is there a way to change my GUIs title when something happens?

[CyberSlug]

WinSetTitle(.....)

[the_lord_mephy]

Yeah but I'm not sure what the win title is going to be. It's going to be changed very often throughout the script and I don't think WinSetTitle works with handles

[CyberSlug]

Did you try?

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)

$h = GuiCreate("Title One.")
GuiSetState()

sleep(1000)
WinSetTitle("handle=" & $h, "", "Title Two..")

sleep(1000)
WinSetTitle("handle=" & $h, "", "Title Three...")

sleep(1000)
WinSetTitle("handle=" & $h, "", "Title Four....")

sleep(1000)
WinSetTitle("handle=" & $h, "", "Title Five.....")

[Jon]

Did you try?

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)

$h = GuiCreate("Title One.")
GuiSetState()

sleep(1000)
WinSetTitle("handle=" & $h, "", "Title Two..")

sleep(1000)
WinSetTitle("handle=" & $h, "", "Title Three...")

sleep(1000)
WinSetTitle("handle=" & $h, "", "Title Four....")

sleep(1000)
WinSetTitle("handle=" & $h, "", "Title Five.....")

Not required, this is easier:

$h = GuiCreate("Title One.")
GuiSetState()

sleep(1000)
WinSetTitle($h, "", "Title Two..")

[the_lord_mephy]

Ah, see I didn't know WinSetTitle worked with handles. Thanks both of you

[Jon]

Ah, see I didn't know WinSetTitle worked with handles. Thanks both of you

Any function that works with "title", "text" works with handles. Totally undocumented but when I upgraded the variants to support handles this was a nice side effect. In fact the "handle=" is completely redundant now - it stays only because I need it for AutoItX.

[the_lord_mephy]

Ooh, that's very helpful. Thanks Jon

[ezzetabi]

This is great. It need to be documented!

[loukaniko]

This Thread is 6 years old now. But this issue is STILL totally undocumented. I'm using autoit for so many years, and I'm a little frustrated that this feature has been there and is ... 6 years old.

please can you put it to the next version's help file?

thanks

[GEOSoft]

This Thread is 6 years old now. But this issue is STILL totally undocumented. I'm using autoit for so many years, and I'm a little frustrated that this feature has been there and is ... 6 years old.

please can you put it to the next version's help file?

thanks

Look at "Window Titles and Text (Advanced)" in the help file.

[Melba23]

loukaniko,

From the Help file - <Using AutoIt - Window Titles and Text (Advanced)>:

Window Handles / HWNDs

The variant datatype in AutoIt natively supports window handles (HWNDs). A window handle is a special value that windows assigns to a window each time it is created. When you have a handle you may use it in place of the title parameter in any of the function calls that use the title/text convention. The advantage of using window handles is that if you have multiple copies of an application open - which have the same title/text - you can uniquely identify them when using handles. When you use a window handle for the title parameter then the text parameter is completely ignored.

Various functions such as WinGetHandle, WinList and GUICreate return these handles. It is important to note that a window handle is not classed as a number or string - it is its own special type.

Note: Window handles will work no matter what WinTitleMatchMode is currently in use.

Example

$handle = WinGetHandle("Untitled - Notepad", "")

WinClose($handle)

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could well be the next thing on your agenda.

M23