Question

I am writing a script that will automatically click on the Waiting List button on the pokerstars lobby. I tried Click x,y and it works, but the problem with this is that if the focus switched from lobby to table, the raise/call button is clicked–DISASTER.

Looking for solutions, I found that ControlClick can do the job for me, but I can’t get the script to work. I read about the parameters needed for ControlClick to work, and using different combinations of the paramters that I found using WindowSpy, I can’t get the script to work.

Here are some of the lines I have already tried–

a::
SetControlDelay -1
ControlClick PokerStarsButtonClass34, PokerStars Lobby, Waiting List
return

a::
SetControlDelay -1
ControlClick x900 y65, Pokerstars Lobby, Waiting List
return

can you help me fix this–thanks

Answer 1

First, I would try omitting the WinText parameter of your ControlClick calls (that means removing the trailing “, Waiting List”) because I’m not sure if the Stars Lobby actually has that text as part of its text visible via the window spy. The WinTitle should be enough.

If you search the AHK forums, you will find that there are many threads of people complaining that ControlClick is not properly sending clicks to buttons or windows. So your problem is not unique.

Now, afaik ControlClick is just a wrapper for sending WM_LBUTTONDOWN messages. But, in some cases, sending the messages directly actually does work, when ControlClick fails. In fact, this function is commonly used in AHK scripts designed for Pokerstars.

PostLeftClick(x, y, hwnd) {
   PostMessage, 0x201, 0x0001, ((y<<16)^x), , ahk_id%hwnd%  ;WM_LBUTTONDOWN=0x201
   PostMessage, 0x202 , 0, ((y<<16)^x), , ahk_id%hwnd%      ;WM_LBUTTONUP=0x202
}

So you can try the above function and see if it works. You’ll need to get the handle of the lobby first, with something like lobbyhwnd := WinExist("Pokerstars Lobby") and then pass lobbyhwnd as the third param to the above function.

If it doesn’t work, I would suggest just using Click normally, but explicitly activating the lobby before sending the click, that way you can be certain that the click gets sent to the correct window. For example:

a::
    WinActivate, Pokerstars Lobby
    Click x900, y65
return