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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 Ryan,

Nice suggestion. I hadn't seen FindAllChildren function.



I wanted something more straightforward, but this actually just adds a for loop which shouldn't have many iterations in the worst case scenario..



I'm using JScript. If you want to share your code, maybe you are doing it better and more users can benefit from it.