controlsettext not setting text but successful

[smcombs]

I am trying to set the text of a control from pidgin. When I use the following code it returns that its successful as well as actually changing the text according to the AutoIt window info tool. But when looking at the textbox itself the text is not there it is just blank.

WinActivate("Pidgin","Pidgin")
Sleep(500)
$handle = ControlGetHandle("Pidgin","Pidgin","[CLASS:gdkWindowChild; INSTANCE:4]")
$test = ControlSetText("Pidgin","Pidgin",$handle,"+14236185810")
MsgBox(0,"",$test)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[whim]

From the help file

ControlSetText ( "title", "text", controlID, "new text" [, flag] )

Parameters

title -> The title of the window to access.

text -> The text of the window to access.

controlID -> The control to interact with. See Controls.

new text -> The new text to be set into the control.

flag [optional] -> when different from 0 (default) will force the target window to be redrawn.

see if that helps

whim

[smcombs]

I tried that and there was still no change to the input box itself.

[The Kandie Man]

From your first script, it appears you are trying to modify a Pidgin client window or something similar. The chat program called Pidgin does not use standard win32 GUI controls. It uses the GTK+ toolkit to create its GUI. As a result, its GUI will not respond the same way as a standard win32 GUI object.

- The Kandie Man ;-)

[smcombs]

Wow, ok thanks I totally did not know that. Greatly appreciate it! I dont know what that face means but i meant i was happy lol.

Edited December 13, 2009 by smcombs