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sergi
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11 years ago

Use FindChild for MenuItems with "_" in WPControlText

Hi, I want to use built-in FindChild function to find the items in the application menu. I'm trying the following tod o it the following way: Sys.Process("ApplicationNmae").FindChild(new ...
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    Ryan_Moran
    11 years ago
    Ok so I do something similar to this but I have a pretty length set of procedures to find items by text so I'll keep it as simple as I can.



    Sys.Process("ApplicationNmae").FindChild(new Array("ClrClassName", "WPFControlText"), new Array("MenuItem", "*"))



    Return all objects into an array and check the MenuItem property of each item individually stripping the _ and any other invalid characters from the value.



    Not sure what language you are using but I can provide an example if you'd like.
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sergi
Contributor
11 years ago
Hi Chris,

not really since the underscore character can be anywhere, not only at the begining..

I have for example "Save _As" instead of "Save As".

This is due to key accelerators..