how to programmatically push the OK button in a dialog box

[peters]

My code needs to push the OK button in a doalog box that it finds on the screen - put up by another app.

Any idea how to do this?

Peter

[Korween]

Hi,

There are two ways to create controls in Win programming : either you create your control with assistance of resource editor , or you create in source code object from CButton class(MFC), or child window (Win API).

Bye

[antony holmes]

Hi,

Firstly you will need to get a handle of the Window which has the OK button on it. You could use the FindWindow function for this. Then you will need to know the control ID. There is a good chance that this is IDOK. Then call PostMessage to emulate the button press, as below.

CWnd *win=CWnd::FindWindow(NULL, "parent window text") ;
win->PostMessage(WM_COMMAND, IDOK, 0L ) ;




If the control ID is not IDOK and then you should be able to find the control ID using Spy++

Regards

Tony