Working with MDI windows

[Ferrari312]

I am currently working on automating testing an MDI application, and I am having trouble getting to grips with the child windows (as opposed to the application frame itself, and dialog boxes, which I can work with fine).

I'm relatively new to AutoIT having only been learning and working with it for a couple of weeks. I found that functions like WinActivate, WinWaitActive and ControlGetHandle don't work if you are wanting to bring a child window into focus. I tried googling and searching for a solution, the only one that I found to try was to try:

AutoItSetOption("WinSearchChildren", 1)

but this had no effect.

Is anyone able to give me any tips or point me in the right direction (any tutorials on this subject? haven't been able to find any so far) then it would be most appreciated

Thanks

[BobLin]

I had the exactly same problem and I finally figured out that ControlFocus can do the job. Try it.

Bo Chen Lin

[martin]

I am currently working on automating testing an MDI application, and I am having trouble getting to grips with the child windows (as opposed to the application frame itself, and dialog boxes, which I can work with fine).

I'm relatively new to AutoIT having only been learning and working with it for a couple of weeks. I found that functions like WinActivate, WinWaitActive and ControlGetHandle don't work if you are wanting to bring a child window into focus. I tried googling and searching for a solution, the only one that I found to try was to try:

AutoItSetOption("WinSearchChildren", 1)

but this had no effect.

Is anyone able to give me any tips or point me in the right direction (any tutorials on this subject? haven't been able to find any so far) then it would be most appreciated

Thanks

Can you give a small example of a case where what you expect to happen dopesn't?