Need help!! Been working on this for about a week now!

[JayFran]

In my code the Sleep command times out early or to late causing my exe to crash. I want a way to basically pause the code until either an object or variable is found or finished loading or no longer on the current IE page and then continue with the rest of the code. I tried using IELoadWait but that doesn't seem to be working

[BrewManNH]

Sleep won't wait for an action or event to occur, it just pauses the script for however long you set the time to. You need to set up a loop that will cycle until you find what it is you're looking for, or a set amount of time has elapsed and then exit the loop if it finds it, or doesn't. Look at While..Wend or If...then and ExitLoop.

[JayFran]

Sleep won't wait for an action or event to occur, it just pauses the script for however long you set the time to. You need to set up a loop that will cycle until you find what it is you're looking for, or a set amount of time has elapsed and then exit the loop if it finds it, or doesn't. Look at While..Wend or If...then and ExitLoop.

Is it possible to use a While/Wend inside of an existing loop. Im only have timing issues with 2 parts of my code. Heres a snippet.

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$changetab = "Change"
$c_links = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE)
For $c_link in $c_links
    $cLinkText = _IEPropertyGet($c_link, "innerText")
    If StringInStr($cLinkText, $changetab) Then
        _IEAction($c_link, "click")
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
Next
_IELoadWait($oIE, 5000)
_IELoadWait($c_Link, 5000)
; =================================================================================================
;                                           #Ticket Upload# 
; =================================================================================================
<----------------Script Error---------------->
Sleep(15000)
_IEAttach("Attachments", "html")
Sleep(1000)
$u_imageid0 = "mx847"
$u_imageid1 = "mx853"
$u_imageid2 = "Attachments"
$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE)
For $oLink in $oLinks
    $sLinkText = _IEPropertyGet($oLink, "innerhtml")
    If StringInStr($sLinkText, $u_imageid0) Then
        _IEAction($oLink, "click")
          ExitLoop
    EndIf
     If StringInStr($sLinkText, $u_imageid1) Then
        _IEAction($oLink, "click")
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
    $uimg = _IEImgGetCollection($oIE)
        If $uimg = $u_imageid2 Then $oLink = $u_imageid2
        _IEImgClick($oIE, $u_imageid2, "alt", 0)
            ExitLoop
            
Next

Sleep(550)

So where I put the "Script error" in the code it will crash sometimes. I say sometimes because of the timing issue. Should rewrite it to sometime like:

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; =================================================================================================
;                                           #ISM Ticket Field Fill & Lookup# 
; =================================================================================================
;Insert Ticket info
WinWait("Changes - Windows Internet Explorer")
Sleep(2000)
While ;<---------------------While Statement--------------->
$ticketfill = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "input")
$tid_0 = "mx398"
$tid_1 = "mx404"
For $Oticketfill In $ticketfill
Global $t_post = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "innerhtml")
If $t_post = $tid_0 Then $Oticketfill = $tid_0
If $t_post = $tid_1 Then $0ticketfill = $tid_1
Next
$t_submit = _IEGetObjById($oIE, $t_post)
_IEAction($t_submit, "focus")
Send($t_number)
Sleep(700)
Send("{Enter}")
Sleep(3500)


$changetab = "Change"
$c_links = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE)
For $c_link in $c_links
    $cLinkText = _IEPropertyGet($c_link, "innerText")
    If StringInStr($cLinkText, $changetab) Then
        _IEAction($c_link, "click")
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
Next
_IELoadWait($oIE, 5000)
_IELoadWait($c_Link, 5000)
; =================================================================================================
;                                           #Ticket Upload# 
; =================================================================================================

Sleep(15000)
_IEAttach("Attachments", "html")
Sleep(1000)
$u_imageid0 = "mx847"
$u_imageid1 = "mx853"
$u_imageid2 = "Attachments"
$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE)
For $oLink in $oLinks
    $sLinkText = _IEPropertyGet($oLink, "innerhtml")
    If StringInStr($sLinkText, $u_imageid0) Then
        _IEAction($oLink, "click")
          ExitLoop
    EndIf
     If StringInStr($sLinkText, $u_imageid1) Then
        _IEAction($oLink, "click")
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
    $uimg = _IEImgGetCollection($oIE)
        If $uimg = $u_imageid2 Then $oLink = $u_imageid2
        _IEImgClick($oIE, $u_imageid2, "alt", 0)
            ExitLoop
            
Next

Sleep(550)

$add_new_attach = "addnew_middle_anchor"
$a_n_a = _IEGetObjById($oIE, $add_new_attach)
$hwnd = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")
_IEAction($a_n_a, "focus")
ControlSend($hwnd, "", "[CLASS:Internet Explorer_Server; INSTANCE:1]", "{Enter}")
$add_file = "addnewfile_middle_anchor"
$a_f = _IEGetObjById($oIE, $add_file)
$hwnd = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")
_IEAction($a_f, "focus")
ControlSend($hwnd, "", "[CLASS:Internet Explorer_Server; INSTANCE:1]", "{Enter}")
;$pause = _IELoadWait($oIE)
Sleep(9000)

; =================================================================================================
;                                           #Iframe Window# 
; =================================================================================================

$oFrames = _IEFrameGetCollection ($oIE, 0)
$browse = _IETagNameGetCollection($oFrames, "input")
For $oBrowse In $browse
    $b_prop = _IEPropertyGet($obrowse, "innerhtml")
    If $b_prop = "file" Then $hit = $oBrowse
    Next
$b_open = _IEAction($oBrowse, "focus") ;can use click too to open the browse
Send("\\Phlh72600\techshare$\InventoryForm\C"&$t_number&".doc")
Sleep(1500)
$hwnd = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")
ControlSend($hwnd, "", "[CLASS:Internet Explorer_Server; INSTANCE:1]", "{Enter}")
WEnd ;<---------------------WEnd Statement--------------->
;_IELoadWait($oBrowse)
Sleep(12000)

; =================================================================================================
;                                           #Wrapping up# 
; =================================================================================================
While ;<---------------------While Statement--------------->
$plantab0 = "Plans"
$plantab1 = "mx209_anchor"
$p_links = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE)
For $p_link in $p_links
    $pLinkText = _IEPropertyGet($p_link, "innerText")
        If StringInStr($pLinkText, $plantab0) Then
        _IEAction($p_link, "click")
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
    $pLinkstr = _IEGetObjById($p_link, $plantab1)
    If $pLinkstr = $plantab1 Then $p_link = $plantab1
    
Next
_IEAction($p_link, "focus")
$hwnd = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")
ControlSend($hwnd, "", "[CLASS:Internet Explorer_Server; INSTANCE:1]", "{Enter}")
WEnd ;<---------------------WEnd Statement--------------->
Sleep(4500)