Is there any program out there that can close messageboxes pressing enter automatically? (in windows XP)

Joan M

SOLVED ALREADY, I've done a small program in C++ that handles that for me. The problem was not doing the program itself (which is super easy to do) the problem was getting an executable file that would work in Windows XP. After a good tip from @Daniel_Pfeffer, I've learned how to configure newer versions of Visual Studio to link for Windows XP. THANK YOU ALL! :thumbsup: I've seen "Clickoff" and "windows closer by Murgee", but the first one seems not to be capable to click on the message box and press enter afterwards, and the second one can't simply run on windows XP. I've done a super simple small C++ program that would do that search for window handle, send return there. and that should be it. The problem is that what is output from my Visual Studio is not compatible anymore with windows xp... (that's why I'm searching for a free application that could do that). Each 2 or 3 years I get a request that implies opening 3 virtual machines and open a set of files... each time I try to open those files it takes between 30 minutes to several hours. And always appears some messageboxes that need to be confirmed for the process to continue. This leaves me in front of the computer waiting for them... Thank you all! :beer:

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Lost User

Quote:

search for window handle

Handle of the MessageBox or handle of the OK Button?

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Joan M

It should be the same as the button is the default button on that messagebox... Do you know any application that would do this? Thank you.

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Lost User

No, I don't know such an application. As far as I understand you tried to do it by yourslef. I also just tried it and for me it works fine (ok, I did it with c++ builder). The main difference to your approach seems to be you send a VK_RETURN while I'm doing SendMessage(xWnd, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0); I hope it helps :)

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Joan M

The application itself is super easy to do... I don't want to close the messagebox, I want to accept it, that's why the VK_RETURN. It works in my computer without much hassle... The problem is that my version of visual studio doesn't have the right builder options for Windows XP. That's why I'm searching for an app like that... :(

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Lost User

What is the difference to send a VK_RETURN (which closes the message box) and send a WM_CLOSE :) ?

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Lost User

Put your sourcecode in my profile blog. I will try then to make a native W32 for you ;)

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Joan M

Have not seen how to post it in your blog... Hope you don't mind I post it here:

#include "pch.h"
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
LPCTSTR windowName = "Pregunta";
int ims = 10000;

if (argc > 1)	windowName = argv\[1\];
if (argc > 2)	ims = atoi(argv\[2\]);

while (true)
{
	HWND hHandle = ::FindWindow(NULL, windowName);
	std::cout << hHandle;
	std::cout << "\\r\\n";

	if (hHandle != NULL)
	{
		::PostMessage(hHandle, WM\_KEYDOWN, VK\_RETURN, 0x001C0001);
		::PostMessage(hHandle, WM\_KEYDOWN, VK\_DOWN, 0x00500001);
	}
	Sleep(ims);
}

}

Thank you for taking time to do this! :beer: PS: the compiler must not be set to unicode to accept this as valid.

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Jacquers

Have a look at AutoHotKey, there may be a suitable script.

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Lost User

Hi again Finally this does the job in my environement

HWND xWnd= FindWindow(NULL, "DlgWnd");
if (xWnd)
{
int xWatchDogCount= 0;
while(xWatchDogCount++ < 10) // Prevent from do forever
{
HWND xOkBtnWnd = FindWindowEx(xWnd, NULL, NULL, "OK");
if (xOkBtnWnd)
{
PostMessage(xOkBtnWnd, WM_KEYDOWN, VK_SPACE, 0);
PostMessage(xOkBtnWnd, WM_KEYUP, VK_SPACE, 0);
}
}
}

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Daniel Pfeffer

Joan M wrote:

The problem is that what is output from my Visual Studio is not compatible anymore with windows xp...

For Visual Studio 2017 or 2019: 1. Open the Visual Studio Installer 2. Click "Modify" 3. Select the "Individual Components" tab 4. Scroll down, and select the "Windows XP support for C++" option This should enable you to target Windows XP (it will appear as a separate option in the list of toolsets)

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Lost User

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Joan M

SUPER! I'll try it thanks!

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Joan M

That's almost the same code I've done... Mine works perfectly (like yours) but I was not able to put the executable in windows XP... I've got a suggestion explaining how to get Visual Studio to be able to link for XP. I'll do that. THANKS for answering!

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Joan M

@Daniel_Pfeiffer posted how to get modern visual studios to be able to link for windows XP... I'll follow that advice. Thanks!

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Lost User

:thumbsup:

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milo xml

You can try this. I've used it in the past for some scripting. https://www.autoitscript.com/site/[^]

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The output from Visual Studio is compatible with XP when you build with the XP-compatible toolchain.