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Nathan Roe
Nathan Roe

Reputation: 844

Automate Remote Window with with AutoIT

I'd like to use AutoIT's COM interface in a C# application to automate a window on a remote machine. I have code that looks like this:

var type = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("AutoItX3.Control", "my-remote-server", true);
var automater = (IAutoItX3) Activator.CreateInstance(type);
automater.DoStuff();

The problem is that the automater doesn't seem to be recognizing windows on the remote machine. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is this even possible?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1397

Answers (1)

xavier
xavier

Reputation: 31

this will only work if your c# application is sitting on the same machine as the app you want to control. If you're using Remote Desktop, or Citrix etc, what you see on the screen is a bitmap of what the remote screen looks like, but when your C# app tries to find information about a window at certain coordinates, all there is is a bitmap. One way to make it work would be to have your c# app on the remote machine, and using file messages in a shared folder or other methods to give it remote instructions.

Upvotes: 1

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