Control Box - Buttons not detectable

[derlin]

Hello all,

 

I have a windows app I would like to automate some of, and it involves some stuff that refuses show up in the autoinfo screen. provided is the autoinfo summary. Basically autoinfo is seeing it as one single entity rather than a bunch of small ones that are clickable inside the box. If i move around my cursor inside the control box all that changes is the corrdinates for it. Is there a stratergy to clicking these? I was able to click them using coordinates but that wont work in actually automating them. Any help would be appreciated.

>>>> Window <<<<
Title:    Changed
Class:    WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.1a0e24_r9_ad1
Position:    833, 0
Size:    854, 1027
Style:    0x16CF0000
ExStyle:    0x00050100
Handle:    0x00140326

>>>> Control <<<<
Class:    WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.1a0e24_r9_ad1
Instance:    42
ClassnameNN:    WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.1a0e24_r9_ad142
Name:    bf1ef02d-028e-4dcc-88c6-9ab60375824e
Advanced (Class):    [NAME:bf1ef02d-028e-4dcc-88c6-9ab60375824e]
ID:    1114272
Text:    
Position:    0, 81
Size:    346, 405
ControlClick Coords:    160, 333
Style:    0x56010000
ExStyle:    0x00010000
Handle:    0x001100A0

>>>> Mouse <<<<
Position:    1001, 445
Cursor ID:    0
Color:    0xFFFFFF

>>>> StatusBar <<<<

>>>> ToolsBar <<<<

>>>> Visible Text <<<<
$DiscreteDevice
Attributes
$DiscreteDevice (Read Only)

>>>> Hidden Text <<<<
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[FrancescoDiMuro]

Hi @derlin, and welcome to the AutoIt forums 

The control you are trying to automate is a TreeView control, so, you should be able to interact with it with _GUICtrlTreeView_* functions.

Get the handle of the control using one of the information provided by the AutoItWinowInfo Tool (Name, ClassnameNN), and then use that handle with one of the _GUICtrlTreeView_* functions, which could easily bring a feedback about the interaction with the control (click the second element of the control, get the count, and so on).

From there, if those functions helps you out, then just use them to do "whatever" you want.

P.S.: always post your script so we can help you further

[Earthshine]

I suggest you look at FAQ 31 for UIAutomation to automate Windows 10 apps as they are XAML forms, and you cannot use standard autoit on them

[derlin]

I will look into what you guys have said and reprt back. Thank you