Running external program

firemyst
18 Mar 2024, 01:18

I'll give you a few snippets. This is what I did and have notepad launching from cbots this way:

//you need to grant full access permissions
 [Robot(TimeZone = TimeZones.UTC, AccessRights = AccessRights.FullAccess)]

        //These are for showing Notepad. Put them in top of your class file
        [DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "SetWindowText")]
        private static extern int SetWindowText(IntPtr hWnd, string text);
        [DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "FindWindowEx")]
        private static extern IntPtr FindWindowEx(IntPtr hwndParent, IntPtr hwndChildAfter, string lpszClass, string lpszWindow);
        [DllImport("User32.dll", EntryPoint = "SendMessage")]
        private static extern int SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, int uMsg, int wParam, string lParam);

//to actually launch notepad from your code.
//don't put this in the ontick event or you'll crash your machine trying 
//to constantly launch notepad on every tick.
//the Process class is found in System.Diagnostics
Process notepad = Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo("notepad.exe"));
if (notepad != null)
{
    notepad.WaitForInputIdle();

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(title))
        SetWindowText(notepad.MainWindowHandle, title);

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(message))
    {
        IntPtr child = FindWindowEx(notepad.MainWindowHandle, new IntPtr(0), "Edit", null);
        SendMessage(child, 0x000C, 0, message);
    }
}