atbowler

After installing v3.3.14.4 I found that if I ran AutoIt.chm by just clicking on it in Windows Explorer, I get the table of contents but no actual documentation. Running it from a command window works fine.

I just installed v3.3.14.4 , an then ran AutoItUpdate (from Extras) I failed with an undefined variables $INET_FORCEDLOAD and $INET_DOWNLOADBACKGROUND, in a call to InetGet. These constants are defined in <InetConstants.au3> but there was no #include for this. An earlier version used to just hard code the integer values (1 for both) instead of the named constants.

I think I found my problem. and I have succeeded in getting at least once call to GetNextSibling to work. My code had an already had an element interface object lying around (from ObjCreateInterface) when I called GetNextSibling in the treewalker object using the element id from GetFirstElement. I seems that trying to create a second element interface object from the same element id, gets things screwed up, and I believe that passing an element id to and uiiautomation function does an implicit create interface. Changing my code to pass the first interface object to GetNextSibling seemed to work. I'll experiment some more.

I've been trying to step through the elements of a listbox using a treewalker but have had no success. The GetFirstChildElement succeeds and returns the first element, but when I issue the GetNextSibling call, the program faults. Does someone have an working example ?

Obviously, I don't quite know what I'm doing. However, I changed my testing to programatically move the mouse pointer and play with Inspect, and now I do get agreement between the legacy state I find and what Inspect reports. I manually turned on "Watch Cursor" then had the program activated the target moved the mouse over the button paused for 3 seconds <-- to let Inspect read things Read and displayed the legacy status turned off "watch cursor" The state I read did tell me "checked" properly. Thanks. Two more questions: What SPY program were you refering to? Where do I find the updated UIAWrappers.au3? The one I have is from an attachment in another forum thread, and is likely outdated

The target program I'm testing uses .NET, and so its checkboxes do not respond to AutoIt's ControlCommand "IsChecked" request. So I am trying use the UIAutomation stuff <CUIAutomation2.au3> I can determine the button is a checkbox, but when I ask for the legacy automation state I get an anomaly. $s = $oel.GetCurrentPropertyValue( _ $UIA_LegacyIAccessibleStatePropertyId, _ $state _ ) $state gets a value of 0x01000008 when the button is unchecked, and 0x01000108 when unchecked. All fine and good enough for my purposes. However, INSPECT.EXE reports the values as 0x00100014 and 0x00100004. <oleacc.h> gives 0x100 STATE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT 0x010 STATE_SYSTEM_CHECKED 0x008 STATE_SYSTEM_PRESSED 0x004 STATE_SYSTEM_FOCUCED 0x00100000 STATE_SYSTEM_FOCUSABLE 0x01000000 STATE_SYSTEM_MULTISELECTABLE Any idea why I get the bits in a different order?

What is the difference between the two versions of cuiautomation2.au3?

You are right. about _GUIToolTip_HitTest, I meant _GuiToolTip_GetCurrentTool. The problem with _GUIToolTip_GetText is that it requires 3 arguments. I don't know the last two, and have have several tooltips to guess about for the first one. This is the information I get about the tooltip when it is visible. 000201be '' State(07): Exists, Visible, Enabled Style=94000003 Xstyle=00080080 Class=WindowsForms10.tooltips_class32.app.0.3598b65_r9_ad1 text: 'Refresh the view with current information.' 0 0x1e0 1 0 2 0x2a 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 8 Refresh the view with current information 9 0 The "Text::" line is the string from "WinGetText", and what follows is the array data from _GuiToolTip_GetCurrentTool. I'm looking for some way to get from the handle of the button, to the text of the tooltip. Aside: Note that the flags happen to include TTF_TRACK. However, I don't know what. the 0x40 flag means.

I'm working on a testing program for another program (the target), and I want to recognize some special buttons. For buttons with text, I can read the text, but if there is an icon on the button instead I just get a emtpy string. The target program wiill display a tooltip with text for the button if a human makes the mouse hover over it, and while a tooltip is visible I can read the the tip text with WinGetText (or _GUIToolTip_HitTest). Unfortunately, the fact that a tooltip is on the screen does not really tell me it is the tooltip for that button, and usually, there is not a tooltip being displayed. Is there some way to get the text for a tooltip associate with a specific button? Can I send some message to the button control to make its corresponding tooltip appear so I can read the text withWinGetText. I've Googled around but I only seem to find info on how to build/display tooltips from an Autoit program, not how to work with tooltips of a target program.