set progress prosition in an external window

[Excenter]

Hello,

send a GUICtrlSetData(...) command or GUICtrlSendMsg(...) to an external window (AutoIt3) for a progress control ($PBM_SETPOS) don't work but ControlMove(..) works.

Here is the sourcecode:

;AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
;$handle = WinGetHandle('classname=AutoIt v3 GUI')

$ControlID=3
ControlMove("Batch progress", "", $ControlID, 10, 200); This works
GUICtrlSetData ($ControlID,90); Don't work
GUICtrlSendMsg( $ControlID, $PBM_SETPOS,20,0); Don't work

Can anyone tell me howto set the position?

Edited March 2, 2008 by Excenter

[martin]

Hello,

send a GUICtrlSetData(...) command or GUICtrlSendMsg(...) to an external window (AutoIt3) for a progress control ($PBM_SETPOS) don't work but ControlMove(..) works.

Here is the sourcecode:

;AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
;$handle = WinGetHandle('classname=AutoIt v3 GUI')

$ControlID=3
ControlMove("Batch progress", "", $ControlID, 10, 200); This works
GUICtrlSetData ($ControlID,90); Don't work
GUICtrlSendMsg( $ControlID, $PBM_SETPOS,20,0); Don't work

Can anyone tell me howto set the position?

The control ID is only usable in the gui that created it for ControlSendMessage AFAIK. To control a progress bar in another program you need to use _SendMessage and you need to know the handle for the control. Or you could send a message to the window for the app that has the progress bar and let that app control the progress bar if you are writing the other program.

[Excenter]

Thank you! _SendMessage with a handle works:

$hProgress = ControlGetHandle ( "Batch install", "", 3 )
_SendMessage($hProgress, $PBM_SETPOS,$CmdLine[$i+1],0)