Q: Automaticly click ok when a message dialog appears.

[Martin Arvidsson, Visual Systems AB]

Hi!

I am constructing a program that will massverify some reports.

How ever there is a message dialog comming up saying that the report is up
to date or needs change.

Is there a way to detect when this dialog appears and send a key stroke or
send a message to the button on the dialog?

I know the title of the message dialog.

Regards
Martin

[Andrew Faust]

Re: Q: Automaticly click ok when a message dialog appears.

I assume the message boxes are being generated by a separate app that you
have no ability to modify?

You can do this using the Windows API. You can iterate through all the
windows with EnumWindows and EnumChildWindow s and get the window text with
GetWindowText. Or you can search for the window directly with FindWindow and
FindWindowEx.

Once you have the handle to the window you can send a message to it via
SendMessage. If it's a standard dialog box, you can probably just send it
WM_KEYDOWN with a parameter of VK_ENTER.

You can find documentation on these APIs in C# on Pinvoke.net. You can also
google the functions I mentioned to find code samples.

As for getting a notification of a new message box, you could probably
create a windows event hook to do it. You can Google windows hooks to find
out more. That's probably overkill, though. I'd probably just use a timer to
have my app check for a new dialog box every 10 seconds or so.

Andrew Faust

"Martin Arvidsson, Visual Systems AB" <martin.arvidss on@vsab.netwrot e in
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Hi!
>
I am constructing a program that will massverify some reports.
>
How ever there is a message dialog comming up saying that the report is up
to date or needs change.
>
Is there a way to detect when this dialog appears and send a key stroke or
send a message to the button on the dialog?
>
I know the title of the message dialog.
>
Regards
Martin
>

[Martin Arvidsson, Visual Systems AB]

Re: Q: Automaticly click ok when a message dialog appears.

Thank you!

That realy solved my problem.

Regards
Martin

"Andrew Faust" <andrew@andrewf aust.comskrev i meddelandet
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>I assume the message boxes are being generated by a separate app that you
>have no ability to modify?
>
You can do this using the Windows API. You can iterate through all the
windows with EnumWindows and EnumChildWindow s and get the window text with
GetWindowText. Or you can search for the window directly with FindWindow
and FindWindowEx.
>
Once you have the handle to the window you can send a message to it via
SendMessage. If it's a standard dialog box, you can probably just send it
WM_KEYDOWN with a parameter of VK_ENTER.
>
You can find documentation on these APIs in C# on Pinvoke.net. You can
also google the functions I mentioned to find code samples.
>
As for getting a notification of a new message box, you could probably
create a windows event hook to do it. You can Google windows hooks to find
out more. That's probably overkill, though. I'd probably just use a timer
to have my app check for a new dialog box every 10 seconds or so.
>
Andrew Faust
>
"Martin Arvidsson, Visual Systems AB" <martin.arvidss on@vsab.netwrot e in
message news:uRMLU9y4IH A.3796@TK2MSFTN GP03.phx.gbl...

>Hi!
>>
>I am constructing a program that will massverify some reports.
>>
>How ever there is a message dialog comming up saying that the report is
>up to date or needs change.
>>
>Is there a way to detect when this dialog appears and send a key stroke
>or send a message to the button on the dialog?
>>
>I know the title of the message dialog.
>>
>Regards
>Martin
>>