How do I click a control button with ID using AutoHotkey?
I tried Click and ControlClick, but no luck!
ControlClick Button40
Click Button40
You need to give it some information about the window that the control is on. For example, to close the About screen in Notepad on Windows you could use
ControlClick, Button1, About Notepad ahk_class #32770
The format of the command from the docs is
ControlClick [, Control-or-Pos, WinTitle, WinText, WhichButton, ClickCount, Options, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText]
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I have an exe file and I want to run it and close it by pressing a mouse button or a keyboard button. For eg. say it is a music.exe and I want to open it while I am gaming/doing spread sheet by pressing the key 'm' or mouse button.
I have access to a logitech macro supported mouse. Also a no macro generic microsoft mouse. I am thinking about some kind of macro , or tasker or some script that can do this easily. ( not that I dont want to directly click the exe file or close the exe file by clicking x on the window)
Any suggestion would be helpful ;)
I did it with AutoHotKey software. If anyone is interested , here is the code
XButton2:: if WinExist("WindowName") WinClose ; else Run *runas "%directory%\Music.exe" return
This code will run and close the Music app with admin previlages. ( Change "Run *runas" to "run" if you want it to run normally)
In the software I maintain I plan to replace the old MessageBox by TaskDialog as suggested by Microsoft UI guidlines already quite some time ago.
The main issue I need to resolve is following:
The old message box invoked via MessageBox(... ,MB_OK) (thus containing only an OK button) can be dismissed by pressing the Esc key.
But a TaskDialog containing only an OK button cannot be dismissed by pressing Esc. This might have a negative impact on the user experience.
I tried to use TaskDialogIndirect using the pfCallback field, but if the there is no Cancel button in the task dialog, the callback function doesn't even get called.
Any ideas what can be done so Esc will dismiss such a task dialog?
The MSDN documentation for the TASKDIALOGCONFIG structure says the following about the TDF_ALLOW_DIALOG_CANCELLATION flag (the dwFlags member):
Indicates that the dialog should be able to be closed using Alt-F4, Escape, and the title bar's close button even if no cancel button is specified in either the dwCommonButtons or pButtons members.
This flag also gives the dialog box a system menu (Alt+Space), so you can also close it by pressing Alt+Space and the underlined character in the system menu's "Close" item.
I am trying to:
Use a program written in Visual C++ as a plugin in Skype for Business
or
Make the program window follow (attach itself to) the bottom of the Skype for Business user interface, using some type of tracker.
Any advice, or help on where to start?
I found the below links which would use Windows scripting tools such as AutoIt or AutoHotkey. I am not sure if this is the right approach.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoHotkey/comments/3ck7ak/tie_a_gui_to_a_window_ideas/
https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/120474-attaching-a-gui-to-another-window/
If it is the correct approach, then, where do I start? If it is not the correct approach, what else can I do?
This question might seem as a duplicate to this link. Yet, the question was discarded.
This AutoHotkey script allows you to attach a notepad window to an explorer window:
#Persistent
SetTimer, attach_window, 200
Return
attach_window:
IfWinNotExist ahk_class CabinetWClass ; explorer
return ; do nothing
IfWinNotExist ahk_class Notepad
return
; otherwise:
; retrieve the position and size of the explorer window:
WinGetPos, X, Y, Width, Height, ahk_class CabinetWClass
; attach the notepad window to the right side of the explorer window:
WinMove, ahk_class Notepad,, X+Width, Y
; To make the notepad window attach itself to the bottom of the explorer window use:
; WinMove, ahk_class Notepad,, X, Y+Height
Return
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/SetTimer.htm
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinGetPos.htm
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinMove.htm
Use the included Window Spy utility to get various information about the windows you want use.
I'm trying to create a program that clicks on a button in my web browser.
The current code:
set sh=createobject("wscript.shell")
sh.SendKeys "{Click, 669 , 674}"
wscript.sleep 100
sh.sendkeys "{Click, 669 , 674}"
I think there is something wrong with the command for the left mouse button.
Thanks for help.
SendKeys can only send keystrokes.
Check out nircmd (specifically the sendmouse command) or another third-party utility.
When I create SHBrowseForFolderW dialog the default control is OK, what I need to do is make SysTreeView32 active so a user can right on use arrow keys to adjust the desired folder. I tried to use this code : http://comp.newsgroups.archived.at/os.ms-windows.programmer.win32/200505/05053122835.html which wokrs ok in finding the HWND of the dialog but using WM_NEXTDLGCTL has no effect on the window.
Maybe I should send TAB keystrokes to the window, or I don't know any other opions ? Are there swiches in creating the browse dialog what control will be highlighted when the window create ?
Ok, the thing is difference between PostMessage and SendMessage. I mistakenly used the later here. They are not the same!