Trying to understand an optimal way to kill a window that may popup

[johntmcii]

Hi, I'm a dinosaur learning AutoIT and IT's nice. I'm totally addicted. Thank you AutoIT community!

Any suggestions for something a little more elegant than this? I simply want to watch for and kill an annoying "Add-ons" window that a new portable Firefox installation creates. This works, but I'm having a hard time making up my mind on an optimal way to do the conditionals-- I like Switch for readability, and tried that, but I saw some other examples on the forum that confused me more than made-up my mind. Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated.

Dim $i = 500
        Do
            $x = WinExists("Add-ons")
            If $x = 1 Then
                    WinKill("Add-ons")
                Exit
            EndIf
            Sleep(500)
            $i = $i + 500
        Until $i = 5000

[Rogue5099]

Try this. It will continue to loop until you hit the ESC key then it will Exit.

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_Exit")

While 1
    If WinExists("Add-ons") Then WinKill("Add-ons")
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

Func _Exit()
    Exit
EndFunc

[bogQ]

If your script is only to kill win and nothing else this can 2 can work

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_Exit")
While 1
    WinKill(WinWait("Add-ons"))
WEnd
Func _Exit()
    Exit
EndFunc

[johntmcii]

Thanks for the tips!

[Aktonius]

The problem with following examples is that your script is not free to do anything else so it just kills windows.

What you may consider to do in the future is using TIMERS.

You can simply make a simple timer when your script starts or us AdLibRegister

Both of them assign a function that will be run when timer finishes(lets say every second the timer will trigger the function)

Then function checks if there are any annoying windows/popups

Func timerfunc()

If winexists("annoying popup") then

winclose("annoying popup")

endif

if winexists("some other annoying popup") then

...

endif

EndFunc

[johntmcii]

What you may consider to do in the future is using TIMERS.

You can simply make a simple timer when your script starts or us AdLibRegister

Both of them assign a function that will be run when timer finishes(lets say every second the timer will trigger the function)

Nice, thanks!