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Hello,

I have a nag screen, which I want to automatically get rid of. To do so I need to press Alt+number where number can be 1, 2 or 3.

Using Window spy, I see that the number appears in the section (Visible Window text)...like shown below. The following is copied and pasted from Windowspy when the nag screen is active. I want to extract the digit that appears and then simulate the pressing of Alt+digit. How do I extract the digit.

>>>>>>>>>>>( Visible Window Text )<<<<<<<<<<<
NagPage
1


Thanks in advance for your help. AHK rocks. Its language is not very difficulty, yet it is very powerful and some people in these forums who are willing to help makes it really valuable.

Refer AHK Doc for WinGetText command.

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Also, in place of "ALT+Digit", look up "WinClose" or "WinKill". All you need is the title of the screen... If they have title that are really similar, then you may be able to close all of them with 3 lines of code.

Thanks for your replies.

If I try to use the Wintext, I only get the following (I am using the example in the AHK documentation and using the Msgbox to get the text):

Startuppage
Nagpage

The code I used is the following:


Hence, Wintext does not give me the relevant text on the nagscreen.

Regarding killing the process, there is no way to just close the nag window. If you look in the processes or applications in the task manager, there is only one program name corresponding to both the main program and the nagpage. If you try to kill that process, the main program and the nagpage both close down.

Thanks anyway. Any further information would be great.

WinKill would probably kill the program... WinClose will just close the defined window. I use it to close error messages and requests for input in different programs all the time. WinClose may do it for you... No processes involved.

Does not work. I tried the following:






Neither of them works.

And your giving it the exact name? Maybe to help it find it better, you can use "SetTitleMatchMode, 2" at the top of your script.

Or maybe use:


To see if it's even finding the window at all.

If Not, Try "WinClose, A" When a nagscreen pops up.

Sivvy, I appreciate your willingness to help. Thanks.

I tried using testing whether it identifies the title using the method you suggested above and it does.

Can I try something else then? As I said, I am not even sure whether the Nag window can be closed. Those three buttons which are present in the Northeast corner of any window, are not present for this window.

Thanks again.

I have another idea, but first I will attempt your way.


Hopefully that will get the number for you.

My other idea is...

Thanks very much for the code. Unfortunately, it does not work. As i said above, somehow the WinGetText command does not show all the text on the nag window. Window spy does but WinGetText only shows two lines

StartPage
NagPage.

I wonder why.

Thanks again for your help. I suppose this cannot be done very easily.

The "WinHide" script isn't working either?

Since window spy can retrieve the txt for you, I think that the txt you are retrieving from your winwait command may be from a different window than you expect (not the nag window..)

Try this as an experiment: manually start your app, & activate the 'nag' window--..& this hotkey will show what it sees from the current active window.

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Sivvy, the hide command does not work either.

Freakkk, you were right. The text that I get from your method is different and has the relevant information. I still do not get all the text that is on the nag window, but I do get the most relevant part. The second line from this text is the digit that I want to use to simulate pressing Alt+Digit.

After using your method, I ran the following code (added a line to run the program)

[code]
^!z::
Run, C:\totalcmd\progname.exe
Sleep, 1000
WinActive("A")
WinGetText, text
MsgBox, %text%
return
[\code]

and, I still get the relevant text. However, I DO NOT get the relevant text if I replace Sleep, 1000 by Sleep, 200 because first the program is opened and then the nag window pops up and Sleep, 200 is not enough time. The strange thing is that instead of using Sleep, 1000 in the above code if I use the command Winwait, ahk_class NAGWINDOWCLASS where NAGWINDOWCLASS is the ahk_class of the Nagwindow obtained using Window spy then I again get only the two lines I mentioned in the above posts. This seems strange because despite using ahk_class I do not get the correct information. The problem with Sleep, 1000 is that it may not always work.

But anyhow, if someone can tell me how to extract the digit from the second line from the text that I get using the Freakkk's method, that would be great.

Freakkk and Sivvy thanks again for your help.[/b]

Does this work in place of the MsgBox at the end of your code?

With that code I always get the output TextArray2

In case, it is helpful the following is the text output I get using Freakkk's code.



I want to extract the number that follows Nagpage (which in the above example is 1, but keeps changing between 1, 2 and 3).

Thanks Sivvy. Again, I appreciate your help.[/code]