WinWaitActive for a window OR another window

[Psychotron]

Hi,

I am trying to make a script for installing a program for italian and english operating systems.

I've used:

WinWaitActive("Seleziona la lingua dell'installazione")

It's ok on italian operating systems.

With english operating systems I should use:

WinWaitActive("choose setup language")

Is there a way to put two possibilities?

something like:

WinWaitActive("Seleziona la lingua dell'installazione" or "choose setup language")

Thanks in advance

[wakillon]

Something like this ?

Do
    $_WinWaitActive = WinWaitActive ( "Seleziona la lingua dell'installazione", "", 1 )
    $_WinWaitActive = WinWaitActive ( "choose setup language", "", 1 )
Until $_WinWaitActive <> 0

Edited May 24, 2011 by wakillon

[Melba23]

Psychotron,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum.

I would do something like this:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test", 500, 500)

$hButton_E = GUICtrlCreateButton("English",  10, 10, 80, 30)
$hButton_I = GUICtrlCreateButton("Italian", 100, 10, 80, 30)

GUISetState()

While 1

    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $hButton_E
            GUICreate("choose setup language")
            GUISetState()
        Case $hButton_I
            GUICreate("Seleziona la lingua dell'installazione")
            GUISetState()
    EndSwitch

    If WinExists("choose setup language") Then
        WinWaitActive("choose setup language")
        MsgBox(0, "Active", "English version")
        ExitLoop
    ElseIf WinExists("Seleziona la lingua dell'installazione") Then
        WinWaitActive("Seleziona la lingua dell'installazione")
        MsgBox(0, "Active", "Italian version")
        ExitLoop
    EndIf

WEnd

All clear?

M23

[Psychotron]

Wow, it's possible to make also a gui! I have to do an unattended installation, but for other purposes that's very nice!

Thank you very much! I'll try your two solutions and let you know!

Edited May 24, 2011 by Psychotron

[Melba23]

Psychotron,

it's possible to make also a gui!

Of course!

Might I suggest reading the Help file (at least the first few sections - Using AutoIt, Tutorials and the first couple of References) - this will help you enormously in your coding. You should also look at the excellent tutorials that you will find here and here - you will find other tutorials in the Wiki (the link is at the top of the page).

There are even video tutorials on YouTube if you prefer watching to reading.

Enjoy AutoIt.

M23

[MHz]

If you want to go by the window text to know the language, then do it with the 1st window and do the rest of the install with the known language added to a variable $lang rather then trying to check for both languages through the whole script.

Example

Global $lang
For $i = 0 To 20
    If WinExists("Seleziona la lingua dell'installazione") Then
        $lang = 'italian'
        ExitLoop
    ElseIf WinExists('choose setup language')
        $lang = 'english'
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
    Sleep(250)
Next

If $lang = 'italian' Then
    ; progress with italian install code here
ElseIf $lang = 'english' Then
    ; progress with english install code here
Else
    ; lang error notification :(
EndIf

[Psychotron]

Very smart.

Thank you!