AfxWnd getting text problem

[Champak]

I responded in an old thread with this issue, but didn't like the title of the thread (didn't think it really conveyed my issue) so I started my own.

I'm seeing a control...it's a listbox or a listview I don't know...and I'm trying to get the text from it and I can't. The class is afxwnd. I've seen around the net that you can't retrieve text in controls with this class. I was wondering if it is the same problem with autoit?

[PsaltyDS]

I responded in an old thread with this issue, but didn't like the title of the thread (didn't think it really conveyed my issue) so I started my own.

I'm seeing a control...it's a listbox or a listview I don't know...and I'm trying to get the text from it and I can't. The class is afxwnd. I've seen around the net that you can't retrieve text in controls with this class. I was wondering if it is the same problem with autoit?

AutoIt is very cool, but it is not magic. It still uses standard Windows APIs to do stuff. If that control is not part of the standard APIs then AutoIt doesn't know what to do with it.

One thing you might be able to do is standard keyboard operations that are not control specific. If you manually give focus to that control and do Alt-a then Alt-c, do you get anything? If so, as a worst case, you ControlSend() those.

[dazza]

AutoIt is very cool, but it is not magic. It still uses standard Windows APIs to do stuff. If that control is not part of the standard APIs then AutoIt doesn't know what to do with it.

One thing you might be able to do is standard keyboard operations that are not control specific. If you manually give focus to that control and do Alt-a then Alt-c, do you get anything? If so, as a worst case, you ControlSend() those.

I am having the same problems getting a AfxWnd to do anything. I have managed to get the text via

ClipPut("")
send("{F2}")
sleep(250)
send("^c")
sleep(250)
send("{F2}")
$alpha = ClipGet()