Clicking MS Excel toolbar button

[Rishav]

Hi folks

Currently i am working of a software which has buttons quite similar to MS excel toolbar buttons.

this creates a problem in getting the control id for automation as .net all the buttons on the toolbar have the same class-instance names.

in general, lets say i want to click on the Bold button on the Excel toolbar. how can i do that?

using

;ControlFocus("Microsoft Excel - Book1","","CLASS:MsoCommandBar; INSTANCE:1")

just tries to click the toolbar itself instead of that very button.

[sb1920alk]

Hi folks

Currently i am working of a software which has buttons quite similar to MS excel toolbar buttons.

this creates a problem in getting the control id for automation as .net all the buttons on the toolbar have the same class-instance names.

in general, lets say i want to click on the Bold button on the Excel toolbar. how can i do that?

using

;ControlFocus("Microsoft Excel - Book1","","CLASS:MsoCommandBar; INSTANCE:1")

just tries to click the toolbar itself instead of that very button.

Is there a reason you can't just use something like Send("^b")?

[PsaltyDS]

Hi folks

Currently i am working of a software which has buttons quite similar to MS excel toolbar buttons.

this creates a problem in getting the control id for automation as .net all the buttons on the toolbar have the same class-instance names.

in general, lets say i want to click on the Bold button on the Excel toolbar. how can i do that?

using

;ControlFocus("Microsoft Excel - Book1","","CLASS:MsoCommandBar; INSTANCE:1")

just tries to click the toolbar itself instead of that very button.

That's because "CLASS:MsoCommandBar; INSTANCE:1" IS the toolbar, not the button.

P.S. You might check out this topic: winwait, for selection of menus

Edited September 26, 2008 by PsaltyDS