Cannot move by windowhandle (AutoitX)

[Area751]

I'm using AutoItX as COM object in Csharp.

string handle = oAutoIt.WinGetHandle("Untitled - Notepad","");

oAutoIt.WinMove(handle,"",0,0,640,480);

I can't get this to work.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

It works perfectly if I use WinMove() function with "Untitled - Notepad" instead of passing the handle.

Thanks.

[DarkMatter]

WinMove accepts the Title of the window only. Not a handle.

This is in VB.NET 2005:

Imports AutoItX3Lib

Public Class Form1
    Dim oAutoit As AutoItX3

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        oAutoit = New AutoItX3

        oAutoit.WinMove("Untitled - Notepad", "", 0, 0, 640, 480)
    End Sub
End Class

Edited May 1, 2008 by DarkMatter

[Area751]

WinMove accepts the Title of the window only. Not a handle.

I am going to have multiple windows with the same Title. That's why I wanted to use the handle.

Is there a solution for this?

BTW I found in the documentation that every function that accepts a title, can also be used by providing the handle to the window. So it seems that WinMove is an exception to this rule?

edit: the documentation is at the bottom of this page: http://hiddensoft.com/autoit3/docs/intro/windowsadvanced.htm

Edited May 1, 2008 by Area751

[DarkMatter]

I think it might be an exception for the COMObject itself.

If you do the following:

Dim Handle As String

        oAutoIT = New AutoItX3

        Handle = oAutoIT.WinGetHandle("Untitled - Notepad")
        Debug.WriteLine(oAutoIT.WinMove(Handle, "", 0, 0, 480, 600))

0 is written to the debug window.

Return Value

Success: Returns 1.

Failure: Returns 0 if window is not found.

0 is indicating that the window was not found.

Now what you could do is just do a straight call to MoveWindow in user32.dll

Public Declare Auto Function MoveWindow Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal X As Int32, ByVal Y As Int32, ByVal nWidth As Int32, _

ByVal nHeight As Int32, ByVal bRepaint As Boolean) As Boolean

Edited May 1, 2008 by DarkMatter

[DarkMatter]

Here is some sample code of what I was talking about in VB.NET 2005:

Full Code:

Private Declare Function MoveWindow Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal X As Int32, ByVal Y As Int32, ByVal nWidth As Int32, ByVal nHeight As Int32, ByVal bRepaint As Boolean) As Boolean
    Private Declare Auto Function FindWindow Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As IntPtr

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Dim Handle As IntPtr

        Handle = FindWindow(Nothing, "Untitled - Notepad")

        MoveWindow(Handle, 0, 0, 480, 600, True)
    End Sub

Plus this is a cleaner way than having DLLs with your app...

Edited May 1, 2008 by DarkMatter

[ProgAndy]

Mybe the AutoIt-Code would work, if you used

Dim Handle As Long

[DarkMatter]

Tried it already... Accepts a string not long you will get a type mismatch.

[SmOke_N]

I am going to have multiple windows with the same Title. That's why I wanted to use the handle.

Is there a solution for this?

BTW I found in the documentation that every function that accepts a title, can also be used by providing the handle to the window. So it seems that WinMove is an exception to this rule?

edit: the documentation is at the bottom of this page: http://hiddensoft.com/autoit3/docs/intro/windowsadvanced.htm

You are looking at the online documentation for AutoIt itself, not the AutoItX.

Since autoit itself handles variant data types, I'd suggest maybe making one yourself with MoveWindow and overloading the function(s) to accept strings/hwnds...

[Area751]

Thanks DarkMatter. I solved it by using user32.dll !