auto-it - How may I access and interact with controls intelligently?
- From: "Valiant on the laptop" <valiant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:44:04 -0500
Hi again.
I'm still messing with auto-it. I wrote a script to toggle the power skeems
between max battery and always on. On execution, an auto-killing msg box
appears stating either switching to max battery or switching to max
performance. It then goes on to access run dialogue, types powercfg.cpl and
hits enter. Finally, when power options dialogue appears, it will either hit
end, for max battery, or it will type a, for always on, depending on which it
wants to set. It works as a toggle, so one activation switches it, activate it
again and it switches back. It uses a text file to figure out what it set the
option to last time. Here's the script.
If FileRead("power.txt") = "max" Then
MsgBox(1, "", "Switching to max performance", 1)
ElseIf FileRead("power.txt") = "min" Then
MsgBox(1, "", "Switching to max battery", 0.5)
Else
MsgBox(1, "", "Switching to max battery", 0.5)
EndIf
Send("#r")
WinWait("Run")
Send("powercfg.cpl{enter}") ;
WinWait("Power Options Properties")
If FileRead("power.txt") = "max" Then
FileDelete("power.txt")
Send("a")
FileWrite("power.txt", "min")
Sleep("250")
Send("{enter}")
ElseIf FileRead("power.txt") = "min" Then
FileDelete("power.txt")
Send("{END}")
FileWrite("power.txt", "max")
Sleep("250")
Send("{enter}")
Else
FileDelete("power.txt")
Send("{END}") ; press the end key to hopefully set combo box to max battery
FileWrite("power.txt", "max") ; so on next execution it will know to set to
always on
Sleep("250") ; let user see what it was changed to
Send("{enter}") ; close the dialogue
EndIf
My question is, i'm doing this very blindly, I want to make this script
available to other people. What if they have another option available that
begins with A, it could set it to that instead, and that might not be a good
thing. Also, maybe max battery isn't at the end of the list. So, I want to be
able to take a look at the combo box, manually set it to max battery by looking
for it and highlighting it somehow, then be able to do the same for always on,
etc. If I can read the combo box, I can get rid of the text file, I can just
set the new option depending on what it was already set to.
Finally, is there a sneaky way to move around in dialogues without having the
dialogues show? It'd be slick to magically do that without zooming through the
dialogues on screen, although that's pretty cool too. Finally, how come auto-it
won't just run powercfg.cpl with it's run command? I have to activate the run
dialogue in windows to get it done. ShellOpen doen't work either, same problem,
it says it doesn't have a proper association, problem is, I don't need an
association, I just need it to tell windows to fire up that file, maybe I could
go to systempath\\system32 or what ever and activate it in there but heck hmm,
naw, is there a way to run the file without worrying about associations?
cheers
Regards:
Aaron T. Spears (valiant) valiant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Website -
http://aarontech.randylaptop.com Windows Live Messenger: a1t2s3_89@xxxxxxxxxxx
- AOL IM: computeruser89 - skype: aarontech.valiant
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