Greetings. I was taking a look at the article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996405.aspx, which is written from the perspective of Visual Test attempting to do the same thing. Apparently a message does exist, WM_GETCONTROLNAME, which returns the name defined in the code for a .NET control, providing the programmer hasn't done something fancy like dynamically create the controls collection at runtime. My only question is, does VBScript manage to shim Windows' lack of support for marshalling strings across processes for SendMessage(), or does the WE scripting model provide a way to do this? The alternative, I suppose, would be to write a COM component to handle shared memory and work it that way, as I don't think you can reference external functions in a DLL from VBScript, can you?
Alternately, would it be possible to get an IDispatch * from the form itself--perhaps by going from an hWnd to an IAccessible, then performing some QI magic (or late binding)? I suspect that this would be dependent on the [ComVisible] attribute in the form's definition, and I can't imagine that being on by default, or at the very least I can't imagine COM interfaces to forms being arbitrarily available, which would just leave the WM_GETCONTROLNAME method as the best supported option--which brings us back to accessing shared memory from within a VBScript. -----Original Message----- From: Doug Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 8:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: .Net control names from a script? Is it possible to get the variable name of a .Net form field from a Window-Eyes script, given the field's window handle? I guess this is a feature request if not. Since actual numeric control IDs are dynamically assigned at runtime in .Net applications (they actually equal the numeric value of the window handle for the control), such variable names are often the only way of reliably identifying a field in .Net. -- Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." --Helen Keller
