[Closed] Automate Button Click: windowsPostMessage/uiAccessor

Hi all,

I’m working on an experiment of sorts and as part of this I need to manually press the button located on Corona’s VFB. I know there are other ways to initiate a render, quick max render, render(),etc but I think in this circumstance the button press on VFB may possibly bypass a strange issue I’m having. I’ve written a little test script to run on my machine.

I’ve tried using uiAccessor but it seems unable to interact with anything in Corona’s VFB, so I did some research on windows.sendMessage/postMessage but I don’t seem to have it quite right.

Here is my code:

try (destroyDialog CheckDialogTest) catch ()
--Global Variables
global hwnd
fn checkDialogs = (
  hwnd = dialogMonitorOps.getWindowHandle()
  dialogTitle = ""
  dialogTitle = uiAccessor.getWindowText hwnd
  print(dialogTitle)
   if dialogTitle != undefined then (
  if (matchPattern dialogTitle pattern:"Corona 1.7 (hotfix 3) |*" == true) then (
    print(windows.getChildrenHWND HWND)
    controls = windows.getChildrenHWND hwnd
    renderBut = controls[11][1]
    WM_LBUTTONDOWN = 0x0201
    WM_LBUTTONUP = 0x0202
    windows.postMessage renderBut WM_LBUTTONDOWN
    windows.postmessage renderBut WM_LBUTTONUP
    --uiAccessor.pressButtonByName "Render"
  )
  )
  true
)
--Create test rollout
rollout CheckDialogTest "Check Dialog Test" width:200 height:95
(
button onButton "Dialog Monitor On" height:40
button offButton "Dialog Monitor Off" height: 40
on onButton pressed do (
  --Add and start the dialog monitoring
  dialogMonitorOps.interactive = false
  dialogMonitorOps.unregisterNotification id:#test
  dialogMonitorOps.registerNotification checkDialogs id:#test
  dialogMonitorOps.enabled = true
)
on offButton pressed do (
  dialogMonitorOps.enabled = false
  dialogMonitorOps.unregisterNotification
)
on CheckDialogTest closed do (
  dialogMonitorOps.enabled = false
  dialogMonitorOps.unregisterNotification
)
)
createdialog CheckDialogTest

And here is the error message I get out of the listener:

--  Frame:
--   renderBut: 1843508P
--   WM_LBUTTONDOWN: 513
--   dialogTitle: "Corona 1.7 (hotfix 3) | 64×64px (1:1) | Camera:  | Frame "
--   controls: #(#(6431086P, 3350898P, 3350898P, "wxWindowNR", "Ctrl+C", 0P, 3350898P, 3350898P) ...)
--   WM_LBUTTONUP: 514

RenderBut is the correct id? for the first element in the array that holds the “Render” button.

I appreciate any help, thanks!