Method Reference
WinMenuSelectItem
Invokes a menu item of a window
WinMenuSelectItem "title", "text", "item" [, "item" [, "item" [, "item" [, "item" [, "item" [, "item"]]]]]]
Parameters
| title | The title of the window to read. |
| text | The text of the window to read. |
| item | Text of Menu Item |
| item | Optional: Text of SubMenu item |
| item | Optional: Text of SubMenu item |
| item | Optional: Text of SubMenu item |
| item | Optional: Text of SubMenu item |
| item | Optional: Text of SubMenu item |
| item | Optional: Text of SubMenu item |
Return Value
| Success: | Returns 1. |
| Failure: | Returns 0 if the menu could not be found. |
Remarks
You should note that underlined menu items actually contain a & character to indicate the underlining. Thus, the menu item File would actually require the text "&File;", and Convert would require "Con|" You can access menu items up to six levels deep; and the window can be inactive, minimized, and/or even hidden.
WinMenuSelectItem will only work on standard menus. Unfortunately, many menus in use today are actually custom written or toolbars "pretending" to be menus. This is true for most Microsoft applications.
Related
Example
Set oAutoIt = WScript.CreateObject("AutoItX3.Control") ' This will select File, Page Setup in notepad oAutoIt.WinMenuSelectItem "Untitled - ", "", "&File", "Page Set&up..."