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Hi All;

Still learning, but after messing around for a few hours thought it would be best to ask the collective wisdom.

I am writing a script to automate some functions on a window. I've got most of it working, but now have two problems. First, I have a drop-down list control that expands when the down arrow icon is clicked to show about 2 dozen items. I want to select one of them based on the string (such as "Color"). I can force this using MouseClick, of course, but I want it to be string-based instead of location-based. I don't know how to locate a string in the drop-down box (the box contents are not stored in a file, but generated as metadata by the application). I need search only for the first letter of the string, then click that option.

The second problem is similar. After selecting an item from the drop-down list, a listbox is populated with valid entries (such as "red", "blue", etc). I want to select one of these based again on first letter as it appears in the listbox.

So, I'm sure there's some really simple way to do this that I'm missing. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Tim

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Hello TCPI,

I'm not sure if this helps but here is a little example.

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <ComboConstants.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <ListBoxConstants.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
$Form3 = GUICreate("Form3", 413, 298, 303, 219)
$Combo1 = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 104, 80, 121, 25, BitOR($CBS_DROPDOWNLIST,$CBS_AUTOHSCROLL))
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "one|two|four|six|eight|nine")
$List1 = GUICtrlCreateList("", 104, 184, 121, 97)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "black|green|orange|pink|red|violet|yellow")
$Input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 104, 32, 121, 21)
$Input2 = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 104, 136, 121, 21)
$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("letter for combo", 24, 32, 77, 17)
$Label2 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("letter for list", 40, 138, 57, 17)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Apply", 248, 28, 75, 25, 0)
$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Apply", 249, 134, 75, 25, 0)
$Label3 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("(o,t,f,s or n)", 120, 56, 57, 17)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###


While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        case $button1
            ControlFocus("Form3","",$Combo1)
            Send(GUICtrlRead($Input1))
        case $Button2
            ControlFocus("Form3","",$List1)
            send(GUICtrlRead($Input2))

    EndSwitch
WEnd
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Thanks...I aprpeciate the fast and helpful reply.

I had managed to get the triggering based on first letter of the entry using keyboard commands, but in some cases I have multiple options in the pull-down and selection boxes that start with the same letter (such as "b"). I was trying to match by the entire string (such as "blue" or "black") but can't seem to do that without manipulating the code behind the dialog. If it try to feed the letters (b-l-u-e) it goes to "b" first, then to "l" as a first letter, then to "u" as a first letter, etc. I can't find a way to search the control for the entire string in the control (which is created by ASPX). I can manipulate the ASPX, of course, but not the dialog in this way.

Any thoughts? Or is this just not easily done?

Tim

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