Cannot be automated ?

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buffwea
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Cannot be automated ?

Post by buffwea » Wed Sep 02, 2015 7:50 am

Often, if a game was running fullscreen, macro scheduler would not work. I have never encountered an individual window that was able to "reject" mouseclicks. Here is a windowed application that I can't seem to send keystrokes to, adjust it's size, or click any part of. I'm quite literally at my wits end.

However this application is able to be controlled via VNC, teamviewer... I might simply set the compression to none and automate it via VNC using only pixel colors and image recognition.

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Re: Cannot be automated ?

Post by buffwea » Thu Sep 03, 2015 5:59 am

This issue has been resolved. It seems for some reason, UAC is the root cause. My application requests elevated status upon startup. Although Mscheduler is also run as admin, it is unable to send keystrokes or mouse clicks to the application that I am attempting to automate.

With UAC disabled altogether, everything works as expected. Anyone have any thoughts as to why?

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Re: Cannot be automated ?

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:42 am

Glad to hear you solved the issue.
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