HwndWrapper and ControlFocus

[ryjames]

If I use Active Window Info (Window Spy) to look at a field, it's ClassNN shows:
HwndWrapper[Trebuchet.App.exe;Cherwell 1;5be27849-1217-4b27-ae1f-0652209e09b2]1

How would I use ControlFocus to move the text cursor to it?

It's easy with one that lists this as its ClassNN:
WindowsForms10.EDIT.app.0.17e61ce_r12_ad11

Any thoughts? Thank you in advance!

[swagfag]

https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=49089

[burque505]

Hi, ryjames, this looks like something to do with Cherwell Service Management installation, might that be right?I think what you need is this:
First, ControlGet

Retrieves the window handle (HWND) of the specified control.

So, maybe, unless that's a child, something like this;

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ControlGet, TrebuchetWindowHwnd, Hwnd, , HwndWrapper[Trebuchet.App.exe;Cherwell 1;5be27849-1217-4b27-ae1f-0652209e09b2]1, TheTitleWhateverItIs

If that's some kind of child my feeble attempt may be worthless, and I likely missed a comma, I have no way to test this at the moment. Also take a look here:
Lexikos's posts.
(Especially regarding 'WinGet ControlList', and the example below that.)
Anyway, once you get the Hwnd, then:

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ControlFocus, ,TrebuchetWindowHwnd

Hope I'm not giving you a bum steer, which considering I've got no way to test this is possible (maybe even likely). I think you're close anyway.
Regards,
burque505

[ryjames]

Thank you for the suggestion! I tried it out and it doesn't find it still.

As an experiment, I tried:

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	ControlGetFocus, CurrentControl, Cherwell
	Control, EditPaste, %SendWhat%, %CurrentControl%, Cherwell

This also did not work

I'm not sure what the trick is.

Thank you again for the suggestion!

Also, I did try printing out a complete control list and it shows up the same for that control as it does from the spy.

One other weird thing is that if I search for the coordinates of the control with a loop, it finds 2 results. One is the same hwndwrapper string as above, but the other one looks like the kind that works starting with WindowsForms10.Window... etc.
But even if I try to send focus to that, it does not work.

If it didn't work so well for other fields, I wouldn't be so stuck on making this work! haha

Any suggestions are welcome!