Feature request: Press that f... button

[Mastiff]

Around half a year ago we were discussing "Press that freakin' button" here, and I think it was Mike who said that it was a possible feature for Girder 4. Will that happen? It's simply an easily configured routine that's waiting for a certain dialogue box or other type of window and presses the desired button when it arrives. Like PebblesPC, I have PTFB to press "Hide" whenever it surfaces since it won't start minimized.

[Promixis]

its easily done in lua...

maybe with a UI in G4.1

[Mastiff]

In other words setting a recurring timer to maybe three seconds for each of those dialog boxes? And then targeting the correct button with the mouse? Or another way?

[Promixis]

Yes, a timere and a quick check of the foreground window.

Even every 500 ms would be fine.

Mouse click or a sendmessage command...

[Mastiff]

Or a quick check of any window in the stack, I assume. Or would that kill the CPU?

[Promixis]

most dialog boxes are foreground when they pop up so..


win.GetForegroundWindow will get the handle.

win.GetText will get the text of the window