I have an experimental Perl script that selects a Notepad window and writes some text to it. My code works.

If I have more than one Notepad window open, I would like to be able to manually select which window to write to. Is there a way to do this?

#!/PERL5
use strict;
use Win32::GuiTest qw(FindWindowLike SetForegroundWindow SendKeys);


$ARGV[0] =~ s/\[!20\]//g;            #Remove [!20] WinkeySim delays
$ARGV[0] =~ m!\((.*)\)!;            #Grab everything between ( ) put i
+nto $1 
my $EEcorr = "{(}".$1."{)}";            #Parentheses (special characte
+rs) are added

#Write to unit EEPROM
#my @window = FindWindowLike(0, "Terminal", "");
my @window = FindWindowLike(0, "Notepad", "");
SetForegroundWindow($window[0]);
sleep 1;
Win32::GuiTest::SendKeys($EEcorr,20);

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In reply to Manually Select a Windows Window by rd48sec

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