Re: Visual C++ examples for GUI automation

From:
Aurelien Regat-Barrel <nospam.aregatba@yahoo.fr.invalid>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:19:39 +0530
Message-ID:
<OZ0ep528HHA.5404@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Hello!

You should have a look at AutoIt/AutoItX:
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/

Aurelien

SQACSharp a ??crit :

Hi,

 I'm looking for visual C++ (2005) examples for doing GUI automation.

Ex: Typing text to a notepad window, Clicking button in the windows
calculator and retrieving the result.

Any releated link will be usefull... I do this with VB using
enumwindow, SetWindowText, SetForeground window, SendMessage windows
API... but all the C++ examples found on the internet are not working
as expected.. ex:

#include <windows.h>
// Notepad must be started
int main()
{
    HWND hWnd, hWndChild;
                hWnd = FindWindow(NULL, L"Untitled - Notepad");
    hWndChild = GetWindow(hWnd, GW_CHILD);
                SendMessage((HWND) hWnd, WM_SETTEXT,0, (LPARAM)"New
Caption");
                SendMessage((HWND) hWndChild, WM_SETTEXT,0,
(LPARAM)"New body text");
                return 0;
}

This example change the caption and the text in the body for garbage
like "???" ([])

Any help?? Thanks!

Michel

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