Winclose(handle)

[Area751]

I feel very stupid asking this... but I could not get this code to work in AutoIt (not AutoitX).

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but the debug window always returned null for $handle.

What am I doing wrong?

What I would like to do is close a handle with AutoItX from a Csharp application I'm writing. But AutoItX doesn't accept handles as input for WinClose() , so my idea was to write a very small executable with AutoIt that accepts a handle as parameter when it's run. Then it closes the window...

[MikeP]

Handles are a special type of variable.. you can't just use the string (or hexvalue in your case since you didn't put " ") and use them in functions needing those handles...

To get a window handle .. use WinGetHandle and it will return what you need.

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
$hCsharpwin = WinGetHandle("Csharp")
WinClose($hCsharpwin)

mode 2 : allow to use substring to find window titles

that script will work but.. is actually awful.. why mixing handles and titles when you can just do that :

WinClose("Csharp") ? I'm a bit confused.

By the way if the window you're closing is responding with a message (like "Do you want to save before closing") and you would want to force the closure without that message.. use WinKill.

Edited May 5, 2008 by MikeP

[Area751]

that script will work but.. is actually awful.. why mixing handles and titles when you can just do that :

WinClose("Csharp") ? I'm a bit confused.

The reason I want to use handles instead of titles is that I will have multiple windows having the same title.

[weaponx]

The reason I want to use handles instead of titles is that I will have multiple windows having the same title.

You can use handles but they have to be returned by WinGetHandle(). You can use the instance number to refer to multiple windows with the same title.

Where are you getting the handles from?

[MikeP]

You can use handles but they have to be returned by WinGetHandle(). You can use the instance number to refer to multiple windows with the same title.

Where are you getting the handles from?

No idea why but I tried testing and launched twice a software called WinHTTrack .. both windows got the same title, different handles of course.. and no instance number. Hard to differentiate in that case

I had to select the correct window among 3 or 4 with same titles too on another script and I created a GUI with windows list .. what I was doing was selecting it, activating it and clicking on a button in the GUI to launch my script when I had the correct window but it needed my actions.. doing it silently is still a mistery.

[PsaltyDS]

No idea why but I tried testing and launched twice a software called WinHTTrack .. both windows got the same title, different handles of course.. and no instance number. Hard to differentiate in that case

I had to select the correct window among 3 or 4 with same titles too on another script and I created a GUI with windows list .. what I was doing was selecting it, activating it and clicking on a button in the GUI to launch my script when I had the correct window but it needed my actions.. doing it silently is still a mistery.

Use WinList() to get an array of all matching windows, then use the handles to find the exact one you want (by text, controls, position, whatever). Once you have the handle, you are good to go. Each time you launch the app, the handles will be different, but they last the life of the window. So hard-coding a handle wouldn't make sense even if you could.

[MikeP]

"I created a GUI with windows list (...)" ... I've used WinList() for that of course... but I needed to manually select the window to get the right handle.. in other words, no way to get which window was launched first when there are more than one... i.e is it possible to get the process creation timestamp..

[weaponx]

ProcessStartDateTime

[MikeP]

What I would like to do is close a handle with AutoItX from a Csharp application I'm writing. But AutoItX doesn't accept handles as input for WinClose() , so my idea was to write a very small executable with AutoIt that accepts a handle as parameter when it's run. Then it closes the window...

Your problem is by using WinList you would get several handles with the same window title.. and with WinGetHandle you get only one (first or last..I don't know) .. what you want is closing the right window. Your windows CAN'T be identical 100% .. positionning, text, level (even if you have 2 windows with the same text and state and positionning.. they can't be at the same level..one would be over the other). So yeah..what you're lookin for is to get such relevant infos.. with WinGetHandle you have the attribute ", text" to find a window with a certain text.. so if you can put an hint text for autoit in your windows..you're saved. Other than that .. you would have to dig the MSDN to find a function giving the window's current level...

[PsaltyDS]

"I created a GUI with windows list (...)" ... I've used WinList() for that of course... but I needed to manually select the window to get the right handle.. in other words, no way to get which window was launched first when there are more than one... i.e is it possible to get the process creation timestamp..

For each window handle in your WinList array, do WinGetProcess($avWinList[$n][1]) to get the PID. There is a _ProcessListProperties() UDF to list lots of info about the process, but start time is not one of them. Doesn't mean it can't be done, though.

Edit: This functionality looks useful for me too (and weaponx was poking me in the ribs), so I updated _ProcessListProperties() to include the translated .CreationDate property: Updated _ProcessListProperties() UDF

Cheers!

Edit: The function _ProcessListProperties() has a new home in Example Scripts. Please take criticism/suggestions to that topic.

Edited May 5, 2008 by PsaltyDS

[MikeP]

ProcessStartDateTime

mmm weaponx .. do you have a function for *insert anything* ? Yeah I think you do

Thx u rock

nice UDF too Psalty ! >> saved !

Edited May 5, 2008 by MikeP

[Area751]

Thanks for all your help. This is a really supportive forum. Sadly... I couldn't solve the problem with AutoIt. I used Win32 API in Csharp and now the problem is solved.

Here is the pseudo code, if anyone is maybe interested in the future:

int SC_CLOSE = 0xF060; // constant

int handle = 0x00030354; // the HEX handle of the window to close (can be decimal format also)

IntPtr hWndtemp = new IntPtr(handle);

Win32.PostMessage(hWndtemp,(int)Win32.WindowMessages.WM_SYSCOMMAND,(IntPtr)SC_CLOSE,IntPtr.Zero);

Edited May 6, 2008 by Area751

[SmOke_N]

Thanks for all your help. This is a really supportive forum. Sadly... I couldn't solve the problem with AutoIt. I used Win32 API in Csharp and now the problem is solved.

Here is the pseudo code, if anyone is maybe interested in the future:

int SC_CLOSE = 0xF060; // constant

int handle = 0x00030354; // the HEX handle of the window to close (can be decimal format also)

IntPtr hWndtemp = new IntPtr(handle);

Win32.PostMessage(hWndtemp,(int)Win32.WindowMessages.WM_SYSCOMMAND,(IntPtr)SC_CLOSE,IntPtr.Zero);

$handle = 0x001F0980

WinClose($handle)

Hmm...

$handle = 0x001F0980
If IsHwnd($handle) = 0 Then $handle = HWND($handle)
If WinClose($handle) = 0 Then WinKill($handle)

[PsaltyDS]

Hmm...

$handle = 0x001F0980
If IsHwnd($handle) = 0 Then $handle = HWND($handle)
If WinClose($handle) = 0 Then WinKill($handle)

Nice call, SmOke_N. I think I had seen HWND() before, but never having needed it, it never occurred to me.