Closing a popup

[ibanez270dx]

Hello,

I've got an interesting problem that I think might be solvable using AutoIT, although I've never used it before... I'm running a Ruby on Rails on Windows Server 2003 (using Apache though, not IIS) and I have an app that does a test to see if the user provided MAPI credentials are valid in MS Exchange. If the credentials are good, it works fine. However, if I put false credentials, then a confirmation window pops up on the server. This makes my app hang and wait for the popup to close (which to the best of my knowledge must be done manually). Since the app will be accessed from computers other than the server, the user wouldn't know that there is a popup making the app hang. I need to somehow find a workaround for this... if this sounds like something autoIT can solve, please let me know how I might be able to resolve this. Any and all help is appreciated!! Here is the popup:

"The profile name is not valid. Enter a valid profile name."

[ OK | Cancel ]

and apparently I need to click Cancel three times in order for it to close...

This is what the window inspector thing said:

>>>> Window <<<<

Title: Microsoft Outlook

Class: #32770

Position: 536, 405

Size: 342, 119

Style: 0x94C803C5

ExStyle: 0x00010101

Handle: 0x000B02B2

>>>> Control <<<<

Class: Static

Instance: 2

ClassnameNN: Static2

Advanced (Class): [CLASS:Static; INSTANCE:2]

ID: 65535

Text: The profile name is not valid. Enter a valid profile name.

Position: 62, 20

Size: 269, 15

ControlClick Coords: 115, 12

Style: 0x50022080

ExStyle: 0x00000004

Handle: 0x000902C0

>>>> Mouse <<<<

Position: 716, 459

Cursor ID: 2

Color: 0xD6D3CE

>>>> StatusBar <<<<

>>>> Visible Text <<<<

OK

Cancel

The profile name is not valid. Enter a valid profile name.

>>>> Hidden Text <<<<

Any and all help is appreciated!!

Thanks,

- Jeff Miller

[colafrysen]

I am sure it could be solved with AutoIt

Just make a script checking for the existence of the popup.

If it is found, then click cancel 3 times.

If you are familliar with scripting Then

Have a look at these commands:

WinWaitActive ( "title" [, "text" [, timeout]] ) Or WinExists ( "title" [, "text"] )

ControlClick ( "title", "text", controlID [, button [, clicks [, x [, y ]]]] )

or the more primitive way:

Send ( "keys" [, flag] )

Else

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21048 Or any other tutorial

EndIf

Goodluck

Edited June 26, 2009 by colafrysen

[colafrysen]

A little start (Not tested and will have to be adjusted to your needs)

And... Why click 3 times?

While 1
If WinExists(Title of msgbox,"The profile name is not valid. Enter a valid profile name.") Then
    Sleep(100)
    ControlClick(Title of msgbox,"The profile name is not valid. Enter a valid profile name.",CancelButtonID)
    Sleep(100)
        ControlClick(Title of msgbox,"The profile name is not valid. Enter a valid profile name.",CancelButtonID)
    Sleep(100)
        ControlClick(Title of msgbox,"The profile name is not valid. Enter a valid profile name.",CancelButtonID)
    Sleep(500)
WEnd

The drawbacks is that it will consume a tiny bit of CPU and memory as it have to be running all the time.

Well, hope this helps

[ibanez270dx]

sweet! that works perfectly!

Thanks for you help, I was banging my head against the walls for hours with this one!!