Newbie Q: Way to tell if user clicked a window?

[jdickens]

Is there a way to initiate an AutoIt script response when a user clicks on some given window or hits enter when that window is active?

newbie. [emoticon of baby]

J

[Josbe]

Yeah. You can read about this: WinActive

[jdickens]

Sorry, my question was put wrongly.

I mean to find out if a user has hit a *control* in a window, or hit enter for the default control of the window.

I want to trap inputs on a simple dialog and send them to another app which has a lousy interface.

PS I am just coming across the GUI aspects of the beta AutoIt, and that will prob. be best to just make a new simple dialog.

J

[Insolence]

You could do something kinda wacky and put a huge transparent GUI over the screen (can you do that?) and just get the X and Y of each click and send that to the other app?

[CyberSlug]

For trapping mouse, you can try the code in http://www.autoitscript.com/fileman/users/public/CyberSlug/autowriter.zip. It uses a hidden GUI with the magic of GuiGetCursorInfo to trap mouse clicks, and it supports rudimentary support for detecting button clicks..... It generates an output file on the Desktop....

Maybe something like this for trapping Enter:

HotKeySet("{Enter}", "TrapEnter")

While 1
   sleep(10)
Wend

Func TrapEnter()
   If WinActive("nameOfWindow") Then
    ; do stuff
   Else;act as if Enter was not trapped
      HotKeySet("{Enter}");unregister hotkey
      Send("{Enter}")
      HotKeySet("{Enter}", "TrapEnter");re-register
   EndIf
EndFunc

Edited December 30, 2004 by CyberSlug

[jdickens]

That's clever. (But not in a counter-intuitive way)

I like that.

I have not looked at AutoWriter yet.

Thanks

J