Controlclick, Controlsend

[Garrett19212]

I have been usin Controlsend throughout my program, but it doesn't work for sending ctrl a.

ControlSend("Warcraft III", "", "", "!{A}")

Thats the code that doesn't work.

I use other things like ctrl c, ctrl g etc and they all work fine but ctrl a doesn't.

So I tried controlclick, but I can't seem to figure out how to make it click a position of the screen, not a control.

[Skruge]

ControlSend("Warcraft III", "", "", "!{A}")

So I tried controlclick, but I can't seem to figure out how to make it click a position of the screen, not a control.

Use "^a" to send Control+a.

Use MouseClick() to click a screen position.

[Garrett19212]

Sorry i meant alt a.

And I need it to click a spot on another window, not on a position on the screen your currently viewing.

[Skruge]

Though I've heard others mention it, I've never had any luck using ControlSend without specifying a control (empty quotes). Is this usage even supported?

Without a control, I would just use Send:

Opt ("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
  $hCur = WinGetHandle("active")
  WinActivate("Warcraft III")
  Send("!a")
  WinActivate($hCur)

Do any controls show up in AU3Info?

And I need it to click a spot on another window, not on a position on the screen your currently viewing.

MouseClick can be used to click either a window or screen position. Look at the help file entry for AutoItSetOption - MouseCoordMode.

[Garrett19212]

Thats one of the reasons i'm using control send, I don't want the window to be maximized.

(its for a game)

And no controls show up.

Edited October 14, 2005 by Garrett19212

[Skruge]

And no controls show up.

I'm assuming you're using Au3Info to look for the controls...

What is the output of this function?

MsgBox(0, "Classes", WinGetClassList("Warcraft III", ""))

[Garrett19212]

Nothing.

[Garrett19212]

bump

[Skruge]

Nothing.

AFAIK, ControlSend won't work without a target control.

These test were done with an empty notepad window open...

Running this code from SciTE sends Alt+F to SciTE.

$WinTitle = "Untitled - Notepad"
  ControlSend($WinTitle, "", "", "!f")

Activating Notepad first sends the keys to notepad.

$WinTitle = "Untitled - Notepad"
  WinActivate($Wintitle) 
 ControlSend($WinTitle, "", "", "!f")

So, it looks like ControlSend sends keys to the active window if no control is specified.

Instead of running the game minimized, what about hiding the window?

This would allow you to activate it and interact with it without ever seeing it.

If I have time, I may dig up and dust off the ol' cd...

Remind me again what "Alt+A" would accomplish in-game?