Question

Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers.

Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post.

Closed 5 years ago.

I have a piece of closed-source third party windows software which consists of only one window and is minimized almost all the time. I d like to be able to change the selected item of a combobox in that window via a system-wide hotkey. If possible, I d like to keep the third party app minimized in the process.

I guess this should be easy to do with Autoit or Autohotkey, but I have never used either of these tools before.

Which tool would be better suited for the job? Does anyone have any pointers on where to start? For example a link to a tutorial showing a similar scenario.

Answer 1

I wrote you a small example of how you could do this. For some reason I used a GUI I build in code. I will see about putting another example in that manipulates a GUI not created in the script.

AutoIt Code...

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_Exit")
HotKeySet("^{z}", "_SetItem1")
HotKeySet("^{x}", "_SetItem2")
HotKeySet("^{c}", "_SetItem3")

;Set up a quick GUI for us to play with.
$gui = GUICreate("Test GUI", 150, 150, -1, -1)
GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 10, 50, 130)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "Item1|Item2|Item3", "Item1")
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    ; Just to keep things running
WEnd

Func _SetItem1()
    ControlSend ( "Test GUI", "", "ComboBox1", "{up}{up}{up}" )
EndFunc   ;==>_SetItem1


Func _SetItem2()
    ControlSend ( "Test GUI", "", "ComboBox1", "{up}{up}{up}{down}" )
EndFunc   ;==>_SetItem1


Func _SetItem3()
    ControlSend ( "Test GUI", "", "ComboBox1", "{up}{up}{up}{down}{down}" )
EndFunc   ;==>_SetItem1

Func _Exit()
    Exit
EndFunc   ;==>_Exit

友情链接