Chek if all controls are ready

[slayerbulia]

Here is a newbee question:

How can I check what all controls in the app are ready? for example then Word is starting the window with the title appears previous to the Menus and tabs.

[TurionAltec]

You could make the window text argument of Winwait look for something that's part of a control. This works on Word 2003:

Opt("Wintitlematchmode",2)
ShellExecute("winword.exe")

WinWait("Microsoft Word","Menu Bar")
Msgbox(0,"Found",  "Found word")

Alternatively, you can try getting a Control handle, and keep checking until the handle is a valid number. I put a sleep in the loop so it won't kill the CPU. I chose the main document control because toolbars may be customized:

Opt("Wintitlematchmode",2)
ShellExecute("winword.exe")

Do
    Sleep (100)
Until ControlGetHandle("Microsoft Word","","[CLASSNN:_WwG1]") <> ""
Msgbox(0,"Found",  "Found word")

[slayerbulia]

You could make the window text argument of Winwait look for something that's part of a control. This works on Word 2003:

Opt("Wintitlematchmode",2)
ShellExecute("winword.exe")

WinWait("Microsoft Word","Menu Bar")
Msgbox(0,"Found",  "Found word")

Alternatively, you can try getting a Control handle, and keep checking until the handle is a valid number. I put a sleep in the loop so it won't kill the CPU. I chose the main document control because toolbars may be customized:

Opt("Wintitlematchmode",2)
ShellExecute("winword.exe")

Do
    Sleep (100)
Until ControlGetHandle("Microsoft Word","","[CLASSNN:_WwG1]") <> ""
Msgbox(0,"Found",  "Found word")

This message appears a moment before the Menu Bar in fact becames visible...