Villa82 Posted May 17, 2013 Posted May 17, 2013 Greetings, I've looked at the related posts and got a working baseline using Notepad. As expected, "my text " string was sent to minimized Notepad. AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode",2) ; Partial title match ControlSend("Notepad", "", "Edit1", "my text ") I am trying to accomplish the same with minimized VLC player, using keystrokes to navigate its menus. My keystrokes are not executing however. AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode",2) ; Partial title match ControlSend("VLC media player", "", "", "!a" & "{DOWN 6}" & "{ENTER}") ; I also tried the controlID "QWidget" which I pulled from Autoit Info Window. ; ControlSend("VLC media player", "", "QWidget", "!a" & "{DOWN 6}" & "{ENTER}") Any suggestions? Below is the Info Summary. >>>> Window <<<< Title: Some Song .... VLC media player Class: QWidget Position: 398, 83 Size: 714, 483 Style: 0x16CF0000 ExStyle: 0x00000100 Handle: 0x00700984 >>>> Control <<<< Class: Instance: ClassnameNN: Name: Advanced (Class): ID: Text: Position: Size: ControlClick Coords: Style: ExStyle: Handle: >>>> Mouse <<<< Position: 909, 522 Cursor ID: 0 Color: 0xD4D0C8 >>>> StatusBar <<<< >>>> ToolsBar <<<< >>>> Visible Text <<<< >>>> Hidden Text <<<< Thanks in advance!
guinness Posted May 17, 2013 Posted May 17, 2013 With media players if you want to skip songs or pause/play etc... then my suggestion is look at _SendMessage and sending the command APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_STOP (for example.) You can find out how by googling with those keywords I gave you. #include <SendMessage.au3> #include <WinAPI.au3> _SendMessage(VLC_HWND, $WM_APPCOMMAND, 0, _WinAPI_MakeLong(0, $APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_STOP)) Xandy 1 UDF List: _AdapterConnections() • _AlwaysRun() • _AppMon() • _AppMonEx() • _ArrayFilter/_ArrayReduce • _BinaryBin() • _CheckMsgBox() • _CmdLineRaw() • _ContextMenu() • _ConvertLHWebColor()/_ConvertSHWebColor() • _DesktopDimensions() • _DisplayPassword() • _DotNet_Load()/_DotNet_Unload() • _Fibonacci() • _FileCompare() • _FileCompareContents() • _FileNameByHandle() • _FilePrefix/SRE() • _FindInFile() • _GetBackgroundColor()/_SetBackgroundColor() • _GetConrolID() • _GetCtrlClass() • _GetDirectoryFormat() • _GetDriveMediaType() • _GetFilename()/_GetFilenameExt() • _GetHardwareID() • _GetIP() • _GetIP_Country() • _GetOSLanguage() • _GetSavedSource() • _GetStringSize() • _GetSystemPaths() • _GetURLImage() • _GIFImage() • _GoogleWeather() • _GUICtrlCreateGroup() • _GUICtrlListBox_CreateArray() • _GUICtrlListView_CreateArray() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveCSV() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveHTML() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveTxt() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveXML() • _GUICtrlMenu_Recent() • _GUICtrlMenu_SetItemImage() • _GUICtrlTreeView_CreateArray() • _GUIDisable() • _GUIImageList_SetIconFromHandle() • _GUIRegisterMsg() • _GUISetIcon() • _Icon_Clear()/_Icon_Set() • _IdleTime() • _InetGet() • _InetGetGUI() • _InetGetProgress() • _IPDetails() • _IsFileOlder() • _IsGUID() • _IsHex() • _IsPalindrome() • _IsRegKey() • _IsStringRegExp() • _IsSystemDrive() • _IsUPX() • _IsValidType() • _IsWebColor() • _Language() • _Log() • _MicrosoftInternetConnectivity() • _MSDNDataType() • _PathFull/GetRelative/Split() • _PathSplitEx() • _PrintFromArray() • _ProgressSetMarquee() • _ReDim() • _RockPaperScissors()/_RockPaperScissorsLizardSpock() • _ScrollingCredits • _SelfDelete() • _SelfRename() • _SelfUpdate() • _SendTo() • _ShellAll() • _ShellFile() • _ShellFolder() • _SingletonHWID() • _SingletonPID() • _Startup() • _StringCompact() • _StringIsValid() • _StringRegExpMetaCharacters() • _StringReplaceWholeWord() • _StringStripChars() • _Temperature() • _TrialPeriod() • _UKToUSDate()/_USToUKDate() • _WinAPI_Create_CTL_CODE() • _WinAPI_CreateGUID() • _WMIDateStringToDate()/_DateToWMIDateString() • Au3 script parsing • AutoIt Search • AutoIt3 Portable • AutoIt3WrapperToPragma • AutoItWinGetTitle()/AutoItWinSetTitle() • Coding • DirToHTML5 • FileInstallr • FileReadLastChars() • GeoIP database • GUI - Only Close Button • GUI Examples • GUICtrlDeleteImage() • GUICtrlGetBkColor() • GUICtrlGetStyle() • GUIEvents • GUIGetBkColor() • Int_Parse() & Int_TryParse() • IsISBN() • LockFile() • Mapping CtrlIDs • OOP in AutoIt • ParseHeadersToSciTE() • PasswordValid • PasteBin • Posts Per Day • PreExpand • Protect Globals • Queue() • Resource Update • ResourcesEx • SciTE Jump • Settings INI • SHELLHOOK • Shunting-Yard • Signature Creator • Stack() • Stopwatch() • StringAddLF()/StringStripLF() • StringEOLToCRLF() • VSCROLL • WM_COPYDATA • More Examples... Updated: 22/04/2018
Villa82 Posted May 20, 2013 Author Posted May 20, 2013 Thanks for the reply! I tried poking around for a few days, but haven't found out how to do it yet. It looks like VLC discontinued support for MediaControl API. "The MediaControl API has been removed from VLC since 2010". I am looking into VLC UDF or VLC HTTP interface as a possible solution...
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