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[dclayton]

Hello,

I am trying to write a simple script which manipulates a custom application built with PowerBuilder. For some reason, I get very inconsistent behavior when it comes to setting text on a control. Here's a sample:

[TeknoMusicMan]

1. Run AutoIt3 Window Spy and check to make sure the edit box's name is actually textBox2. It probably doesn't follow that naming standard. Most likely it's Edit1 or Edit2, something like that.

2. Try using ControlSetText instead of ControlSend. This works flawlessly for me when I use it.

3. Try testing out your script with the actual title of the window, maybe ahk_id won't work if the program has some sort of weird parent/child window stuff going on.

4. Check that the text box actually had the text sent to it. I usually make a loop with a if statment in it that checks to see if the text is "blah" and if it doesn't match "blah" it does controlsettext again, and it keeps looping untell the text matches "blah" then the loop exits. Its like double checking your work


I hope that helps you out.
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[Chris]

Also, ControlSend might become more reliable for certain types of applications if you increase key-delay to the following:
SetKeyDelay, 10, 10

If the above helps, you could also try speeding it up with:
SetKeyDelay, 0, 10