From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2008-07-13T05:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: AutoIt: HWnd function of AutoIt giving method missing error

Anukul Singhal wrote:
> Hi Siep,
> 
> Thanks a lot for the reply. You are right that WinGetHandle or 
> ControlGetHandle should do the trick for me. But my requirement is to 
> use one of these handles to set text or do the click operation. What I 
> want to do is this:
> 
> appID = autoIt.WinGetHandle("Untitled -Notepad")
> autoIt.ControlSetText(appID,"","Edit1","This is a text")
> 
> I want to use title argument only once to fetch the window handle and 
> then subsequently use the window handle to perform other actions of 
> setting text or click. Is it possible to avoid 'title' argument and use 
> a Window Handle instead?
> My concern is that if there are more than 1 instance of say "Notepad", 
> the title of all the instances of notepad would be the same but the 
> Window Handle would be unique for each instance, and hence would be a 
> good option to use for performing actions.
> 
> Is there any way out to do the above step and avoid "title" as the first 
> argument?
> 

Found an undocumented feature. This is a way to use the handle:

res=autoIt.ControlSend("[HANDLE:#{appID}]","","Edit1","some text")
sleep 2
autoIt.Winclose("[HANDLE:#{appID}]")

hth,

Siep


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