WinWaitActive

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Waits to run script on lines after the WinWaitActive Function until the specified window pops up on the screen


WinWaitActive ( "title" [, "text" [, timeout]] )

[] - > The brackets mean that the parameter does not need to have an entry in order for the function to execute

Parameters

title -> You have to get the title of the window with AU3Info on the tools menu. The title must be enclosed in double quotes

text -> Text to check in the window

timeout -> How many seconds before a 'Timeout' occurs. A Timeout will stop the code from running


A value can be retrieved from this function to find out if it executed correctly or not

A value of 1 means everything's OK A value of 0 means that the window you wanted to come up didn't appear in time


Also see these other functions

WinActive, WinExists, WinWait, WinWaitClose, WinWaitNotActive, WinWaitDelay (Option)


Example:

WinWaitActive("Windows Security") ; Wait for Windows Mail Login Box to Pop Up

WinWaitActive("Windows Security", "",40) ; If the Windows Mail Security box doesn't pop up in 40 seconds, then a timeout occurs