Re^3: How to continue the execution of a perl script if the user session gets locked while running it.

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Guess I learned something new.

A few years ago when I was looking at automating a GUI application, I got lost with the documentation of Win32::GuiTest. Doing some Google searching, I came across AutoIt gave that a shot. Then I hit the issue that you're hitting. So I tried looking into Win32::GuiTest again. The docs made more sense, but I still hit the same issue with using Win32::GuiTest.

Anyways, I thought I would hit AutoIt's web site to see if they had any information about this type of scenario and found the following in their FAQ: Why doesn't my script work on a locked workstation?

They provide more information about what is happening and offer some alternatives. I tried looking into the documentation of Win32::GuiTest to see if I can find the equivalent functions. I'm not sure if Win32::GuiTest exposes those functions or not.

On one hand, if the information in the AutoIt FAQ is correct, there is a glimmer of hope for what you are wanting to do. On the other hand, I'm not sure I know how to advise you to apply those alternatives from that FAQ in your Perl script using Win32::GuiTest.

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Re^4: How to continue the execution of a perl script if the user session gets locked while running it. (hwnd) by Anonymous Monk on Feb 04, 2014 at 08:31 UTC
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/ControlSend.htm says ControlSend() works in a similar way to Send() but it can send key strokes directly to a window/control, rather than just to the active window. So its basically like any function that takes a hwnd like many of the Win32::GuiTest functions that do `MouseClick($window [,$parent] [,$x_offset] [,$y_offset] [,$button] [,$ +delay]) $text = WMGetText($hwnd) $set = WMSetText($hwnd,text) SetFocus($hWnd) PostMessage($hwnd,msg,wParam,lParam) SendMessage(hWnd,Msg,wParam,lParam)` [download] And if you load Win32::GUI you can access to a whole lot more functions Re: How to get a window's menu as a Win32::GUI::Menu object? If you want to automate anything on win32 you have to absorb the following knowledge . It mostly consists of learing the ole/excel/powerpoint... object model, and using Win32::OLE to call it or sending messages using guitest. OLE is essentially a fancy/standardised way of sending messages. Its very much like web-scraping, you have to know HTTP/HTML DOM .... the rest is just legwork Win32::OLE The behavior of Win32::OLE->new Using Win32::OLE and Excel - Tips and Tricks Automating Windows Applications with Win32::OLE - Perl.com, Automated GUI Testing - Perl.com Re: perl library for controlling Windows GUI (like AutoIt) Re: Write to WIndows Event Log Re: How to get location of Desktop folder on Win32 Read and write Windows "shortcut" links Where is the Win32::OLE Docs Using Win32::GuiTest WinSpy OLESPY Win32::OLE - Type Library Browser http://www.microsoft.com/com/ OLE/COM Object Viewer (oleview.exe) Scriptomatic 2.0 #develop Office Automation with Perl How do I convert a VBA macro to Perl? OLE withevents site:perlmonks.org Excel Object Model Overview href://http://www.roth.net/conference/perl/2000/Perl2000.ppt http://www.roth.net/conference/perl/1999/ole.ppt	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: How to continue the execution of a perl script if the user session gets locked while running it. (hwnd)
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 04, 2014 at 08:31 UTC

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/ControlSend.htm

ControlSend() works in a similar way to Send() but it can send key strokes directly to a window/control, rather than just to the active window.

So its basically like any function that takes a hwnd like many of the Win32::GuiTest functions that do

MouseClick($window [,$parent] [,$x_offset] [,$y_offset] [,$button] [,$
+delay])
$text = WMGetText($hwnd)
$set = WMSetText($hwnd,text)
SetFocus($hWnd)
PostMessage($hwnd,msg,wParam,lParam) 
SendMessage(hWnd,Msg,wParam,lParam)
[download]

And if you load Win32::GUI you can access to a whole lot more functions Re: How to get a window's menu as a Win32::GUI::Menu object?

If you want to automate anything on win32 you have to absorb the following knowledge . It mostly consists of learing the ole/excel/powerpoint... object model, and using Win32::OLE to call it or sending messages using guitest. OLE is essentially a fancy/standardised way of sending messages. Its very much like web-scraping, you have to know HTTP/HTML DOM .... the rest is just legwork

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