LoneCoder Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hi. Here's my little issue : I have a webpage with a shockwave applet. What I wanna do is sending keystrokes to this (there's a chatbar) without activating the window (window minimized). I've been able to use ControlFocus with what Autoit Info gives me for this control and then ControlSend and it works.. but the IE window is popping up of course. I'd like to do the same "silently". Is is possible? If so, any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsaltyDS Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hi. Here's my little issue :I have a webpage with a shockwave applet. What I wanna do is sending keystrokes to this (there's a chatbar) without activating the window (window minimized).I've been able to use ControlFocus with what Autoit Info gives me for this control and then ControlSend and it works.. but the IE window is popping up of course.I'd like to do the same "silently". Is is possible? If so, any idea?ControlSend() itself doesn't cause a window to become active. If the app receiving the input responds by activating the window, I don't know how you would prevent that. The best you could hope for is detecting it with a tight loop that re-minimized it.Moving the window off the desktop instead of minimizing it might help. Valuater's AutoIt 1-2-3, Class... Is now in Session!For those who want somebody to write the script for them: RentACoder"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." -- Geek's corollary to Clarke's law Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youknowwho4eva Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 How do you open IE? I'm not very familiar with the IE UDF or it's shockwave capabilities. But what if you open IE with the @sw_hide flag? Haven't tried that but sounds like an idea to me. Giggity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baraoic Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Here is a simple IE example it will create a hidden IE window to google.com then go to yahoo.com then quit. Note that when creating the window it will wait till it has fully loaded then going to yahoo.com will wait too.#include <IE.au3> _IEErrorHandlerRegister("MyErrFunc") $oIE = _IECreate("http://www.google.com/", 0, 0) _IENavigate($oIE, "http://www.yahoo.com/") _IEQuit($oIE) _IEErrorHandlerDeRegister() Func MyErrFunc() ; Important: the error object variable MUST be named $oIEErrorHandler $ErrorScriptline = $oIEErrorHandler.scriptline $ErrorNumber = $oIEErrorHandler.number $ErrorNumberHex = Hex($oIEErrorHandler.number, 8) $ErrorDescription = StringStripWS($oIEErrorHandler.description, 2) $ErrorWinDescription = StringStripWS($oIEErrorHandler.WinDescription, 2) $ErrorSource = $oIEErrorHandler.Source $ErrorHelpFile = $oIEErrorHandler.HelpFile $ErrorHelpContext = $oIEErrorHandler.HelpContext $ErrorLastDllError = $oIEErrorHandler.LastDllError $ErrorOutput = "" $ErrorOutput &= "--> COM Error Encountered in " & @ScriptName & @CR $ErrorOutput &= "----> $ErrorScriptline = " & $ErrorScriptline & @CR $ErrorOutput &= "----> $ErrorNumberHex = " & $ErrorNumberHex & @CR $ErrorOutput &= "----> $ErrorNumber = " & $ErrorNumber & @CR $ErrorOutput &= "----> $ErrorWinDescription = " & $ErrorWinDescription & @CR $ErrorOutput &= "----> $ErrorDescription = " & $ErrorDescription & @CR $ErrorOutput &= "----> $ErrorSource = " & $ErrorSource & @CR $ErrorOutput &= "----> $ErrorHelpFile = " & $ErrorHelpFile & @CR $ErrorOutput &= "----> $ErrorHelpContext = " & $ErrorHelpContext & @CR $ErrorOutput &= "----> $ErrorLastDllError = " & $ErrorLastDllError FileWrite(@ScriptDir & "\" & StringTrimRight(@ScriptName, 4) & " Errors.txt", $ErrorOutput & @CRLF & @CRLF) SetError(1) Return EndFunc ;==>MyErrFunc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneCoder Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 How do you open IE? I'm not very familiar with the IE UDF or it's shockwave capabilities. But what if you open IE with the @sw_hide flag? Haven't tried that but sounds like an idea to me.You won Thanks a lot.. that works ! I'm sending the keys to the shockwave application but the window is hidden so it's not filling the screen and can do this in the background.Thanks others for your ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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