Other alternative than Controlsend?

[Vegar]

Is there any other alternative to use when Controlsend does not work?

[MrChiliCheese]

AFAIK only MouseClick, or Send...

Sometime, when i get an error during a ControlClick, i solved it this way:

Do
    Sleep (10)
    $cc= ControlClick ("Title", "Text", "Control")
Until $cc = 1

[Vegar]

hmm...

cant get it to work ...

this is the line im trying to send

ControlSend("Spotify", "", "", "{ALTDOWN}f{ALTUP}{DOWN}{DOWN}{ENTER}")

i've tried you code to, but did not get any further

[Authenticity]

The "Log out Vegar" menu item you see in your application you've previously posted about is probably posting a WM_COMMAND notification with a fixed ID number so you can use Spy++ or other tools like WinSpector to inspect the messages the menu item is posting and send these same massages or values to the window procedure of your application.

For example, sending F5 to the a minimized notepad window using ControlSend() won't trigger the menu item to output the current date to the text, but using _SendMessage() you can trigger the same message a F5 keystroke or clicking the menu item will trigger.

[Vegar]

The "Log out Vegar" menu item you see in your application you've previously posted about is probably posting a WM_COMMAND notification with a fixed ID number so you can use Spy++ or other tools like WinSpector to inspect the messages the menu item is posting and send these same massages or values to the window procedure of your application.

For example, sending F5 to the a minimized notepad window using ControlSend() won't trigger the menu item to output the current date to the text, but using _SendMessage() you can trigger the same message a F5 keystroke or clicking the menu item will trigger.

little hard to understand, but i think i got it?

when i hit the "LogOut" button i got this message from Winspector:

WM_COMMAND
Code: 512
Control ID: 0
Control HWND: 0x0018038e

How can i use this?

Edited July 6, 2009 by Vegar

[Vegar]

Tried this:

#Include <SendMessage.au3>

$hWnd = WinGetTitle ("Spotify")

_SendMessage ($hWnd, "WM_COMMAND","0x0018038e")

and nothing happened

[Vegar]

Not wuite sure if it is the:

WM_COMMAND

Code: 512

Control ID: 0

Control HWND: 0x0018038e

that is the right one ...

but here is a picture of all WM_COMMAND id's i get when i "Log Out"

Someone that assume how i could do this? .. i'm very thankfull for all help

Sorry for my English.

[Authenticity]

You should read the help file if you don't know what a function does or how to call it. Look in the help file for the _SendMessage() function, "WM_COMMAND" and $WM_COMMAND both are completely different values with different meaning.