Strings Changing Cases?

[weiny]

I just recently discovered AutoIt and have my first script below. It uses the program Image Grabber to extract images from all the .avi files in a directory. Below are two images that should help visualize the process.

http://i27.tinypic.com/opr7cx.png

http://i26.tinypic.com/288m3qc.png

All seems to be okay except that the strings seem to change cases occasionally as shown below. I'm not touching the keyboard during the process at all if that rules out anything.

http://i27.tinypic.com/dwbepl.png

I'm not sure if it's the ControlListView() or something like that that is causing the problem. In my test runs, the underscore sometimes gets changed to a hyphen and essentially halts the program because that filename doesn't exist and can't be opened.

http://i31.tinypic.com/244qvrb.png

If there's a possible explanation or another way to do this, I'm open to suggestions. Thanks.

Please ignore any inefficiencies that I'm sure I have. The 'loop' essentially runs once beforehand just to use the GetItemCount to loop through the rest. I'm using version 3.2.12.0 from May 16th, 2008.

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$delaytime = 100;ms

Run("Image Grabber.exe")
WinWaitActive("Image Grabber")
sleep($delaytime)

$filenum = 0

ControlClick("Image Grabber", "", "[CLASSNN:Button1]");Open Button
WinWaitActive("Open")
sleep($delaytime)
WinActivate("[CLASS:SysListView321]")

$files = ControlListview("Open", "", "SysListView321", "GetItemCount")

$filename = ControlListView("Open", "", "SysListView321", "GetText", $filenum, 0)
ControlSend("Open", "", "[CLASSNN:Edit1]",$filename)
sleep($delaytime)
ControlClick("Open", "", "[CLASSNN:Button2]")
WinWaitActive("Image Grabber")
sleep($delaytime)
ControlClick("Image Grabber", "", "[CLASSNN:Button2]");Save Button
sleep($delaytime)

$length = StringLen($filename)
$filename = StringLeft($filename, $length - 4);Subtract '.avi' extension because error saving .jpg otherwise

ControlSend("Save As", "", "[CLASSNN:Edit1]",$filename)
WinWaitActive("Save As")
sleep($delaytime)
ControlClick("Save As", "", "[CLASSNN:Button2]")
WinWaitActive("Finished!")
ControlClick("Finished!", "", "[CLASSNN:Button1]")

$filenum = $filenum + 1

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while $filenum < $files
    
ControlClick("Image Grabber", "", "[CLASSNN:Button1]")
WinWaitActive("Open")
sleep($delaytime)
WinActivate("[CLASS:SysListView321]")
$filename = ControlListView("Open", "", "SysListView321", "GetText", $filenum, 0)
ControlSend("Open", "", "[CLASSNN:Edit1]",$filename)
sleep($delaytime)
ControlClick("Open", "", "[CLASSNN:Button2]")
WinWaitActive("Image Grabber")
sleep($delaytime)
ControlClick("Image Grabber", "", "[CLASSNN:Button2]")
sleep($delaytime)

$length = StringLen($filename)
$filename = StringLeft($filename, $length - 4)

ControlSend("Save As", "", "[CLASSNN:Edit1]",$filename)
WinWaitActive("Save As")
sleep($delaytime)
ControlClick("Save As", "", "[CLASSNN:Button2]")
WinWaitActive("Finished!")
ControlClick("Finished!", "", "[CLASSNN:Button1]")

$filenum = $filenum + 1
wend

WinClose("Image Grabber")

[Zedna]

This is known AutoIt Send(),ControlSend() limitation related to non-US keyboard layouts.

As workaround just use

ControlSetText("Save As", "", "[CLASSNN:Edit1]",$filename)

instead of

ControlSend("Save As", "", "[CLASSNN:Edit1]",$filename)

Look here at old topics about that:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=32584

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=215442

[weiny]

This is known AutoIt Send(),ControlSend() limitation related to non-US keyboard layouts.

I'm using the Dvorak layout which must've been the reason. Works excellent now. Thanks!