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March 24th, 2004, 11:08 AM
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A little direction on other program's dialog box
I need a starting point.
There is this other proprietary program I have to use that sends me a dialog box with a "yes" and "no" and a "cancel" button.
I want to build a script or a small program to detect that box and automatically send a keystroke "y" or a click (on yes) each time it appears. It is the same dialog box, with the same question, confirming the same task.
Ideas?
Brian
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March 24th, 2004, 12:42 PM
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In vb.net or c#.net? Web or windows based?
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March 24th, 2004, 02:48 PM
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The proprietary program is windows based; I need direction, so which ever would be easier, but I have been pushing myself to become more proficient in C#.
I use Visual Studio.NET for my developement tool.
Are your questions suggesting that it is possible to detect the dialog box and send a keystroke to it??
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March 27th, 2004, 05:42 PM
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Should I give up? I could swear that I saw it done before, but never investigated it until I needed it, which is right now.
Research ideas, a place to start my education for this particular problem?
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March 28th, 2004, 06:35 AM
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No, I don't think you should give up. Instead, look into the SendKeys class.
This class is designed to send keys to (other) programs. The help topic also suggests ways to find the other application, using FindWindow and SetForegroundWindow.
I have no experience with these latter two methods, so I can't be of much help. However, searching Google for these two methods will provide a lot of useful information.
Cheers,
Imar
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March 28th, 2004, 06:42 AM
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Oh, and one more thing. If you're not really looking for a programming solution, but rather just have the problem fixed, there are ready-made applications that can do this, for example: http://download.com.com/3000-2094-54...l?tag=lst-0-11
Searching www.download.com for "automatically click button" brings up quite some results.
Cheers,
Imar
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