AutoIt nOOb here, valid question

[nekkutta]

Hello Everyone, I am new to AutoIt, but I've been programming for many years, mostly NoteTab Clips and batch files, anyway, I've come across a slight hangup in the script I'm working on.

Basically I'm trying to create a background image changer for the Application Pstart, the problem is the Control where the image is loaded, [CLASS:TVirtualStringTree; INSTANCE:3] I don't know what commands can be sent to it with ControlCommand() I'm hoping for a command that will Refresh the background image.

If anyone has any info on this, it would be greatly appreciated!!

TIA, nekkutta

[picea892]

Hmm.

Try this

_WinAPI_RedrawWindow( ControlGetHandle("PStart","","[CLASS:TVirtualStringTree; INSTANCE:3]"))

at the very least, this is likely the function you are looking for. It needs the control handle to work, not the class.

The example in the help for getting control handle is below. You will need the title of the window first, I have only guessed at it based on your link.

$handle = ControlGetHandle("[CLASS:Notepad]", "", "Edit1")

[nekkutta]

Well, I tried _WinAPI_RedrawWindow no go though, Thanks for that, I'm still in the habit of forgetting about the UDFs I'm almost tempted to email the dev of pstart and ask what event I can send to the application to get it to refresh the background image, either that or destroy the control and hope they added extensive error handling *doubtful* that would recreate the control, lol actually, that don't seem like that bad of an idea, although I'm probably going to have to get the new handle every time *sigh*

[nekkutta]

well the destroy didn't work, after reading the help a little more after I threw it in, I see why, darn.... guess its time to email the devs...