OpenEuphoria

RE: Need Help With Windowing & INI Files

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Aug 20, 2001
• 392 views

> From: Mike <vulcan at win.co.nz>
> To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
> Subject: RE: Need Help With Windowing & 
> INI Files
> Date: 21/08/2001 12:58:39 PM

[snip]
> 
> > 2. AutoIt was designed to help with the 
> automation of windows
> >    based installation programs 
> (installshield, etc).  To this end,
> >    you can identify if a window exists 
> or is the active window by
> >    matching on not only the window 
> title, but text that is inside of
> >    the window as well.  EU with the 
> windows.ew library (in the archvie
> >    agian) can do most of this except 
> differentiate between 2 windows
> >    that have the same title but 
> different text inside the window.
> > 
> >    Can someone tell me how to do this 
> with EU?
> 
> 
> Aah, I think Derek is the guy who can 
> answer this one..

I was hoping someone else would jump in.

Anyhow, if you have the SDK manual you will be able to do this with a
combination of EnumWindows and EnumChildWindows API calls, and
WM_GETTEXTLENGTH and WM_GETTEXT messages. I'll try to knock up an example
later tonight. This method will only work for those controls that support
the WM_SETTEXT message, meaning that if you directly draw the text to the
window/control using DrawText or TextOut that you will miss searching those
controls.
----
Derek


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