Getting a Handle for a Button Whose Parent Doesn't Have a Title?

[ransomedbyfire]

I am trying to use SendMessage to click a button. I have the text from the button; but when I try to use the title of the window it appears to be in as the parent hwnd, it doesn't find the button. I just ran a piece of code provided by Microsoft that is supposed to simulate Spy++; and it says that the parent window of this button has no title. So, how should I go about clicking it via SendMessage?

Thank you!

 

[Jaafar Tribak]

Re: Getting a Handle for a Button Whoe Parent Doesn't Have a Title?

I am trying to use SendMessage to click a button. I have the text from the button; but when I try to use the title of the window it appears to be in as the parent hwnd, it doesn't find the button. I just ran a piece of code provided by Microsoft that is supposed to simulate Spy++; and it says that the parent window of this button has no title. So, how should I go about clicking it via SendMessage?

Thank you!

Where is this button ? Is it a button embeeded in a worksheet ? Plz , provide more details.

 

[ransomedbyfire]

Sorry!

The button is on another application that I have launched with Shell and send keyboard commands to. I can get the handle for the initial window, and even for other buttons and one of the child windows. But I am having trouble sending input to a Finish button that is on the final screen that comes up after the export. I was hoping that, by finding the handle to the button, I could better detect when the export is done; but I am considering just having my macro wait a few minutes and sending WK_CLOSE to this window instead.

 

[Jaafar Tribak]

Sorry!

The button is on another application that I have launched with Shell and send keyboard commands to. I can get the handle for the initial window, and even for other buttons and one of the child windows. But I am having trouble sending input to a Finish button that is on the final screen that comes up after the export. I was hoping that, by finding the handle to the button, I could better detect when the export is done; but I am considering just having my macro wait a few minutes and sending WK_CLOSE to this window instead.

Using a Spy like program you can determine if the target button has a hwnd in which case the best approach is to use the SendMessage API passing to it the hwnd. If no hwnd then you could watch for the existance of the final screen (where the button is located) and send the WM_CLOSE to it.