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[halweg]

Edit (Dec. 2009): There's a new version in the German Forum . Enjoy!
Halwegs Fensterpflege ("Halwegs Window Care")

(Sorry, still in German )

Here are the keys to control Halwegs Fensterpflege:
SCROLLLOCK - record data from the actual window to create a new "care instruction" / Start a care procedure that needs a trigger (when caretime is set to 9999)
WIN-SCROLLLOCK - Manage care instructions
SHIFT-WIN-SCROLLLOCk - Reset all windows, so Window Care will think they are new.
F9 - reactivate/close tool tips


Older stuff:


Edit: A window specific time delay before sending the key sequence was added.

Use this script in order to kill dialog boxes and make automatic logins.

Here's how it works:
A timer examines every 200 milliseconds if a new window appears and in this cases compares it with stored samples. If the window title matches a saved before title string and the window text (WINGETTEXT) contains a saved before text string a key sequence stored before is sent. A couple of tool tips and beeps illustrate the scripts work. That's all.

The more challenging part was the automated collection of samples (by SCROLLLOCK-Key, pressed when a new dialog box is open). The dialog box should be recognized reliable, so there must be both a title match and a text match. To get a text match string the script sends the actual window text (WINGETTEXT) to a notepad window. So the user can select a part of that text in order to make a matching string.
Sometimes it's difficult to find the differences between the window texts of dialog boxes inside the same application. In this case it's recommended to use the Window Spy.

I'm sure there is some optimization potential …

[halweg]

I found some bugs, now they are removed.

The script works fine, it saves me a lot of clicks and inputs.
The last 3 days I found over a dozen dialogs to "kill". Whenever I close the script I feel myself like a windows beginner doing some very stupid things

[Serenity]

Hi halweg, I've always thought AutoHotkey would be perfect for this kind of thing. I tried your script but I get an error message saying:

[halweg]

Hi Serenity. I'm happy you try the script out.
There seems to be some problems with the ini-file:
Or the file or the section or the key or the value are not properly prepared.
See example in my post.
To start try an inifile like this:

[Serenity]

Thanks, I added this to the top of your script so that the ini file is created if it doesn't exist:

[halweg]

Thanks. The inifile is still the weakest point of the script.
It may happens that you must remove a bad registred dialogbox sample. Some annoying renumbering will be required.
That's why I'll keep some focus to the inifile, that user should be abel to find and edit it.

[grossermanitu]

the script is very cool.

but how do I write the below command in the dialogbox?:

send, name
send{ENTER}
sleep, 500
send{TAB}

[halweg]

This is still not possible in the above shown script.
But a workaround could be possible: if the dialogbox to handle changes it's text information after the {ENTER} (gathered by wingettext) this would be detectable by the script as a new dialog situation with the possibility of using the Sleep feature.
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[noodleNT]

THIS IS GREAT!

I suggest adding one more thing. Keyboard and Mouse lockout. That way users can't mess around while an installation or something is going on.

This works great for those Driver Signing prompts!

[grossermanitu]

I recovered just your great script. I am using it with my laptop. Unfortunately the intern sound of my laptop is very loud. How could I stop the repeatingly peep sound if the script detects an appropriate window?

And even though the sending of a keystoke was succesfull I will get the message: "No success! The actuall window couldnt be handled by "{enter}"

[Ye]

Good script. This auto-close popup dialog is what I'm looking for.
Why?
Here, we have to run a kind of safety agent program before connecting to Internet. This program will shutdown the network connection if the socket- or some-kind-of- connections (sorry, that is not my major) are to much. A Warning dialog will popup and have to be closed before the computer can access to internet again. Therefore, during unmanned running, some downloading tools, eg. bitorrent tools or emule, can be blocked from the net. This script can close the warning dialog right after it appears.

But...
This script detects a new dialog/window that steals the focus. So, it won't work on those popups that do not take the focus, for example, the warning popup I want to kill here. When change the focus to my target using Alt-Tab, this script works very well.

Solution
I close all dialog/window before the unmanned downloading. When the Warning popup, aimed with Alt-Tab, this script shoots it down. After that, no window should be opened, or the focus will change. If the warning showup again, it will automatically come into focus and be closed. This may not be the best solution, but at least it works for the time being.

Ye

[JDP]

Write them on one line with | for newline, then loop parse for | in the code

[glenviewjeff]

From: http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/SetTimer.htm


; Example #1: Close unwanted windows whenever they appear:
#Persistent
SetTimer, CloseMailWarnings, 250
return

CloseMailWarnings:
WinClose, Microsoft Outlook, A timeout occured while communicating
WinClose, Microsoft Outlook, A connection to the server could not be established
return

[tic]

you might be able to improve this by using:

[DeWild1]

halweg, GREAT script, well thought out.

Mr. Tic is right.. Loops and stuff are heavy.. Shellhook is light.
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=123323#123323