WinWaitActive and date of creation help

[InsectGrain]

Hello Auto-it Forum,

I am currently writing a program, via auto-it, that will search for files and folders, their dates of creation, and on choice open them up.

I have stumbled upon two fatalities:

First, I don't know how to get the date of a directory.

Second, all of the folders have different names and that have a serial number (which i know) and another random number (i.e 123456789--897754654) first one is the serial number... is there a way that WinWaitActive can see files?

Could you do this?

WinWaitActive( $sn & "--" *)

Thank you for all the help...

[Melba23]

InsectGrain,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum.

You get the creation date/time of a folder just as you do for a file - did you try?

#include <Array.au3>

$aData = FileGetTime("C:\Windows")

_ArrayDisplay($aData)

$sData = FileGetTime("C:\Windows", 0, 1)

MsgBox(0, "Folder DateTime", $sData)

Just look at the Help file for FileGetTime and you will see how you need to set the parameters to get the result you want.

As for matching the window title - look at Opt("WinTitleMatchMode") in the Help file. You will see that the default setting will match window titles from the start - so you should have no problems doing what you want:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

$sName = "123456789"

$hGUI = GUICreate($sName & "--898989", 500, 500)

GUISetState()

WinWaitActive($sName & "--")

MsgBox(0, "Hit", "If we are here, we found the window!")

While 1

    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSwitch

WEnd

If you have not yet realised - the Help file is your best friend.

I hope that is all clear.

M23

[InsectGrain]

Melba23 thank you for your quick response...

This worked, thank you very much...