Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Dec 10 18:27:47 CST 2010
Grab a copy of AutoIt from http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/downloads.shtml Run Au3Info.exe and look at the actual Title of various windows. Note that the Title is not always what is displayed on the "grab bar" . As an example, an Explorer window doesn't display anything - but its Title is the path shown in the "Address Bar". -- Stuart On 10 Dec 2010 at 18:43, Susan Harkins wrote: > Backtalk... ;) Sometimes it doesn't recognize the window name. I'm > typing it character per character from the title bar, but it doesn't > agree -- so that's why I called it temperamental. Something there I > just don't know about. I tried it with the Access container window, so > that's not a child window to my thinking, is it? > > Susan H. > > > It works exactly the way it is intended. - just not the way you > > think it should :-) > > > >>From Win32.hlp: > > > > The FindWindow function retrieves the handle to the top-level window > > whose class name and window name match the specified strings. This > > function does not search child windows. > > > > HWND FindWindow( > > LPCTSTR lpClassName, // pointer to class name > > LPCTSTR lpWindowName // pointer to window name > > ); > > > > Parameters > > lpClassName > > Points to a null-terminated string that specifies the class name or > > is an atom that identifies the class-name string. If this parameter > > is an atom, it must be a global atom created by a previous call to > > the GlobalAddAtom function. The atom, a 16-bit value, must be placed > > in the low-order word of lpClassName; the high-order word must be > > zero. > > > > lpWindowName > > Points to a null-terminated string that specifies the window name > > (the window's title). If this parameter is NULL, all window names > > match. > > > > Return Values If the function succeeds, the return value is the > > handle to the window that has the specified class name and window > > name. If the function fails, the return value is NULL. To get > > extended error information, call GetLastError. > > > > -- > > Stuart > > > > > > > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >