WinSetTitle Not Working

[Amn]

I've been trying to use WinSetTitle and other commands on my Shadowbane (a game) window. The command works with all of my other windows, just not the Shadowbane window. I've done a WinList and am sure the windows title is Shadowbane, and if I do a WinActivate it does activate the Shadowbane window, but I can not change the windows title, or send commands to it. A year or two ago I know I was able to do this, but I was using XP as opposed to Vista at the time. So I'm not sure if it is due to Vista (unlikely as I'm able to send commands to other windows and change their titles), or if there is something that's been done to the Shadowbane program to not allow this. Anywho, my question is if anyone knows of a work around for this. Thanks.

[SoftVoile]

post the code you have tried.

[Amn]

post the code you have tried.

I've tried quite a few different things, but below are some examples.

This didn't work:

$tmpTitle = WinGetTitle("Shadowbane")

WinSetTitle($tmpTitle,"","SB")

This did (with a new notepad window open):

$tmpTitle = WinGetTitle("Untitled - Notepad")

WinSetTitle($tmpTitle,"","SB")

In that case I tried shortening the "Shadowbane" WinGetTitle down to "Sh" which should have worked also.

This worked fine using notepad:

While 1

WinActivate("Untitled - Notepad")

Send("{Space}")

sleep(1000)

Wend

This did activate the Shadowbane window, but did not send the Space being pressed (tried with several other buttons also, none were received by Shadowbane):

While 1

WinActivate("Shadowbane")

Send("{Space}")

sleep(1000)

Wend

I also tried using to use controlsend to both notepad and shadowbane, it worked fine in the case of notepad, not so much for shadowbane. Being that winactivate works with the shadowbane window I know that it's finding the shadowbane window, it's just not successfully interacting with it. Any ideas?

[oMBRa]

have u tried?

ControlSend('Shadowbane', '', '', '{SPACE}')

[Amn]

have u tried?

ControlSend('Shadowbane', '', '', '{SPACE}')

Sure did. I even copy and pasted your code specifically, but no luck. As before though if I replace shadowbane with "Untitled - Notepad" is works fine on the notepad window. Any other ideas?

[SoftVoile]

Maybe

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

can help you if you place it at top of your script. also use Au3Info tool to get correct window information.

[oMBRa]

post the informations u get with au3 info

[Amn]

post the informations u get with au3 info

This is what I pulled up using au3info, it seems the title is correct at least.

>>>> Window <<<<

Title: Shadowbane

Class: OpenGL

Position: 0, 0

Size: 800, 600

Style: 0x96000000

ExStyle: 0x00000000

Handle: 0x00000000000706A8

Also tried with the addition of Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2), but still no luck.

Edited December 7, 2008 by Amn

[SoftVoile]

one more Tip/Hint,

detect the window using [Class:Name] and then change it's title.

Maybe it will work, but i am not sure. just try it.

[Amn]

one more Tip/Hint,

detect the window using [Class:Name] and then change it's title.

Maybe it will work, but i am not sure. just try it.

[Amn]

How do you detect it by the class name. Could you toss an example my way?

[Amn]

Ok, figured it out, with some assistance from a friend. Wanted to thank you guys for the help though. The issue ended up being Vista (no big surprise). I had to set it up to run as admin, and even with it set that way you have to run them from the script editor in admin mode for it to affect that program. Simply double clicking the au3 won't run them in admin mode, despite the setting. Thanks again.

[Mattraks]

Thats why there is #RequireAdmin