programmatically change fields in application

[darkxceed]

Hello,

I have to make testsoftware but I need to controll several application manually to test it.

How can I change a field of an application that is running.

This application is not labview.

eg. notepad is running and I want to enter a text in notepad only by my labview application.

gr,

[pallen]

If you want to control Notepad, I think you'll need ActiveX or something similar. 

One quick search hit this page: http://forums.devshed.com/html-programming-1/opening-notepad-w-activex-1336.html

[Mark_Yedinak]

Do you really need to use Notepad or can you simply modify the file directly in LabVIEW? I imagine that you are trying to change a configuration file for a device and therefore you should be able to directly modify the file through LabVIEW using the file and string primitives.

[darkxceed]

Well the situation is this.

I need to automate a test which is now manual input.

It is not notepad I want to use, that was merely an example(maybe bad example)

So I first call the 'application' which comes from the customer.

Then I want labview to enter severall fields in the 'application' and also activate some buttons.

Note this application is no labview application, also don't have the source.

I did search the internet for the 'handle' subjects but no result in what I need.

[stevem181]

You might want to check out the free program called "Auto It".

It's designed to do what you're looking for.

http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/

steve

[darkxceed]

Hello Steve,

That looks very interresting!

I tried it but there seems no option to retrieve a value from the application.

I also tried to use teststand to do this, when opening a exe I can add a "handle" to it.

Think that I then have to use kernel32.dll to get and put data, but dont know how the function must look like.

[stevem181]

> I tried it but there seems no option to retrieve a value from the application.

I wouldn't hurt to ask your specific question in the Autoit forum, just to be sure.

From the feature list:

"Directly get information on and interact with edit boxes, check boxes, list  boxes, combos, buttons, status bars ..."

steve

[darkxceed]

Did some testing yesterday.

Now I use a function to move the mouse to a location on de application.(before this I use the function "Blockit" from the user32.dll so that the mouse cannot be moved by the tester)

Then use the function CTRL+c to copy the value to clipboard.

Now I have to find a way to compare the value from clipboard with teststand.

[Mark_Yedinak]

Take a look at this thread. It has examples of reading data from the clipboard.

[darkxceed]

All thanx for the reply.

I thought teststand would be able to get the clipboard data somehow but I did not find how.

Special thanx for the link to autoit, really nice program and also free!

Now I made a VI(see below) which makes it now posible to get the clipboard to teststand.

gr,