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Hi all,

I'm writing my first script.
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Run, Notepad.exe, C:\My Documents, max
IfWinExist, Notepad
{
WinActivate
SendInput, Dude, what the hell. this is notepad
}
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What I get is notepad opens, but there is no text being sent to notepad.
What am I missing here?

I have tried Send instead of SendInput
I have also tried to setfocuscontrol.

I am sure it is a simple thing.

Thanks,

It works pretty fast and is very slick.

your title is not correct...: IfWinExist, Notepad

Open up Notepad manually and see what the window title is.

try this:

You should wait fot the Notepad window to be created before sending keys to it. The help file for Run says:

This works reliably:

hmm, had a paste problem...

anon,

no, I tried that (exactly copied and pasted)... still no text in notepad.

Right now it is in this state:
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DetectHiddenText, On
SetTitleMatchMode 2
SetTitleMatchMode Slow

run, Notepad.exe, C:\My Documents, max,notePadPID
WinWait, ahk_pid %notepadPID%
WinActivate
SendInput, Dude, what the hell. this is notepad
return
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I am trying this at work. Is it possible there is some security thing blocking this? Running Windows XP SP3 with Semantic Endpoint Protection... ?

Thanks

badmojo's one works. For some reason

The top two lines of his scrpit would not work
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SendMode, Input, C:\My Documents, max
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So I ran this:
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Run, notepad.exe
WinWait, Notepad, , 3
if ErrorLevel <>
{
WinActivate
Send, Dude, what the hell. this is notepad
}
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It creates a new notepad window
but then sends the text to my notepad++ window

sorry just realised that i had pasted in the wrong place.. it should be just



i had edited the above post and corrected it.

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SetTitleMatchMode 2

Run, notepad.exe
;WinWait, Notepad, , 3
WinWait , Notepad, , 3, ++,
if ErrorLevel <>
{
WinActivate
Send, Dude, what the hell. this is notepad
}
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I exclude notepad++ with the ++ exclude title variable.

Try this:

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Thanks for the help guys.

Badmojo... just for record, the issue with my original script was that it was not waiting for the window to come up? The ifwinexist would check before the window came up and it would not execute the send.

correct?

@scamper_22: yes the 'IfWinExist' only checks if the specified window already exists. if there was a delay, then it'd skip over to the next line.