Alt F4 with ControlSend

[Ryswick]

Hello everyone,

I searched for this topic, but didn't find anything.

I am using ControlSend to send commands to a window, and it works great until I ask it to Alt F4 out of the window.

It looks something like this:

ControlSend("COM2", "", "", "!+{F4}")

Instead of sending the Alt F4 command to the COM2 window, it sends it to the active window instead.

Is there an argument or flag I need to specify?

[iamtheky]

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
 
winactivate("Window that contains COM2")
 
winwaitactive("Window that contains COM2")
 
send ("!{F4}")

Edited November 1, 2011 by boththose

[BitByteBit]

ControlSend("COM2", "", "", "!+{F4}")

!+{F4} is Alt + Shift + F4, not Alt + F4.

Does ControlFocus help?

The same behavior you described is exhibited in the following example without it.

Run('notepad')
Run('explorer /root,')
WinWaitActive('Untitled')
WinWaitActive('Computer')
ControlFocus('Untitled', '', 'Edit1') 
ControlSend('Untitled', '', 'Edit1', '!{F4}')
Exit

[Ryswick]

My error on the !+{F4}. I should have realized it was incorrect. It still did its job though.

So I take it alt commands don't work with CommandSend? Is focusing the window and then sending the alt f4 command a work-around or the only way?

Thanks for the replies though, you two.

[BitByteBit]

My point was that you should try using ControlFocus.

[Blue_Drache]

Because

WinClose()

isn't good enough?

Edited November 2, 2011 by Blue_Drache