GetActiveWindow and dialog button questions

[JRL]

A couple of quick questions.

When running the following, I cannot get info about Button1. If I select Button1, should it not become the focused child window and therefore be the target for GetActiveWindow> while GAW_TYPE=1?

I'm also confused why the "Title" variable in the GetActiveWindow> function is not being set to the button's handle. I have WIN_USEHANDLE set to 1.

Macro Scheduler version 10.019
Windows XP

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Dialog>Dialog1
   Caption=Dialog1
   Width=445
   Height=250
   Top=163
   Left=27
   Button=Button1,220,100,105,55,3
   Button=Button2,80,100,75,25,4
   Label= ,125,20,true
   Label= ,125,40,true
   Label= ,125,60,true
EndDialog>Dialog1

Show>dialog1

Label>Loop
  GetDialogAction>dialog1,res1
  If>res1=2,EOF
  If>res1=3,Process
  If>res1=4,Process
  Wait>0.01
Goto>Loop

Label>EOF

SRT>Process
  Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=1
  Let>GAW_TYPE=1
  GetActiveWindow>Title,ButtonX,ButtonY,ButtonW,ButtonH
  Let>dialog1.mslabel1=Button X,Y Coordinate = %ButtonX%,%ButtonY%
  Let>dialog1.mslabel2=Button W,H Dimension = %ButtonW%,%ButtonH%
  Let>dialog1.mslabel3=Button Title = %Title%
  Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=0
  Let>GAW_TYPE=0
  ResetDialogAction>dialog1
END>Process

[JRL]

I still don't know why the script in the first post doesn't work but I found a way to get the info I want by adding a setfocus> to the button handle line.

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Dialog>Dialog1
   Caption=Dialog1
   Width=445
   Height=250
   Top=163
   Left=27
   Button=Button1,220,100,105,55,3
   Button=Button2,80,100,75,25,4
   Label= ,125,20,true
   Label= ,125,40,true
   Label= ,125,60,true
EndDialog>Dialog1

Show>dialog1

Label>Loop
  GetDialogAction>dialog1,res1
  If>res1=2,EOF
  If>res1=3,Process
  If>res1=4,Process
  Wait>0.01
Goto>Loop

Label>EOF

SRT>Process
  Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=1
  Sub>res1,2
  SetFocus>dialog1.msbutton%res1%.handle
  Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=0
  Let>GAW_TYPE=1
  GetActiveWindow>Title,ButtonX,ButtonY,ButtonW,ButtonH
  Let>dialog1.mslabel1=Button X,Y Coordinate = %ButtonX%,%ButtonY%
  Let>dialog1.mslabel2=Button W,H Dimension = %ButtonW%,%ButtonH%
  Let>dialog1.mslabel3=Button Title = %Title%
  Let>GAW_TYPE=0
  ResetDialogAction>dialog1
END>Process

[Marcus Tettmar]

Hmmm .. I wouldn't nowmally expect GetActiveWindow to return a button - probably getting the window that owns/contains the button. But it'll probably vary from app to app. But then I guess SetFocus is forcing it to become the active window.

[JRL]

Once you have the button's handle, GetWindowPos> does well to get a button location. Any thought about a GetWindowSize> that would work like GetWindowPos>? Although at the moment GetActiveWindow> seems to be working its just that it appears the button needs to be focused for it to work.