viewing items in control panel

yuvi4all · Post by **yuvi4all** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:16 pm

hi,

I am using windows 7 -32 bit machine with macro scheduler 11 pro. I like to get the items present in 'control panel'(i.e. giving 'control' in 'run' command). FindWindowText or findWindowTextEx didnot help. Can someone help me in getting the items by any other way.

Thanks in advance.
uv.

PepsiHog · Post by **PepsiHog** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 1:45 am

yuvi4all,

I personally don't understand your question. I saw your post days ago, but didn't reply figuring someone else would understand it.

Could you give an example of what you hope to do with this? Nine days and no answer, It could be eveyone is doing what I did.

If you want to access certain features in the control panel there are ways of doing that through a command line. Just search the internet.

PepsiHog

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:20 am

Does this help:
http://www.mjtnet.com/forum/executing-c ... t1584.html

Or maybe you want to extract the text in the window? If so you would need to use one of these commands:

GetWindowTextEx
GetTextAtPoint
GetTextInRect

yuvi4all · Post by **yuvi4all** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:50 am

hi,

Please understand my requirement. I have one application that will install an applet in control panel. I am writing a script to check if that applet is present in the control panel. The commands mentioned by Marcus did not help.

Thanks
uv.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:53 pm

Control panel applets are .cpl files. So you could just see if that .cpl file exists:

IfFileExists>%SYS_DIR%\myapp.cpl
..
Endif

So this gets a list of control panel apps:

GetFileList>%SYS_DIR%\*.cpl,control_panel_apps

Does that help?

viewing items in control panel

viewing items in control panel

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