Wait until windows finished loading

[aland]

Hi all,

I'm new to AutoIt and I'm trying to automate a program to load a (potentially large) file - I have written the automation without much problem, however the files I am loading can range between a few hundred KB to a couple of MB and thus the time it takes to finish loading ranges from a few seconds to, a minute or so.

WinWaitActive will return once the program has opened, is there a similar 'wait' command for when a program is ready/idle?

Of course, I could sleep for a few seconds in an effort to catch the 'worst case' but I'm looking for a more elegant solution

The window title does change when the file is opened, however there is still a delay between this change and the program truely being ready relative to the file size.

The program I'm scripting for is BEncode Editor which I believe is itself written in AutoIt (whether that makes a difference or not).

Cheers

[water]

Welcome to AutoIt and the forum!

How do YOU know when the file has loaded? Is there a text in the status bar ("file loaded") or some other change so you can se that the file has loaded?

If you can manually determine that the file has loaded AutoIt will do as well.

[aland]

I can tell because the program window is populated with a large TreeView (with vertical scroll) and the mouse icon changes from 'loading' to normal.

Is it possible to detect these changes from AutoIt?

[water]

Check the TreeView control. If the control is populated with data, then your script can go on processing.

Use The AutoIt Window Info Tool to get the ControlID of the TreeView and try function ControlTreeView.

[aland]

Really appreciate your help with this. I've put a long sleep so I can be sure the data is loaded before running the below code, but I'm not able to get it to work. In place of "[iD:51]" I've tried [CLASS:Static; INSTANCE:11], [CLASS:Static] and 51, all return value of 0 (no error).

Local $treeview = ControlTreeView("BEncode Editor", "", "[ID:51]", "GetItemCount", "#0")
If @error Then
     MsgBox(4096, "Error", "ControlTreeView error")
EndIf
MsgBox(4096, "Control treeview output", $treeview)

Below is the summary from AutoIt Window Info -

>>>> Window <<<<
Title: resume.dat - BEncode Editor
Class: AutoIt v3 GUI
Position: 733, 345
Size: 466, 363
Style: 0x14CF0000
ExStyle: 0x00000110
Handle: 0x001C09D0
>>>> Control <<<<
Class: Static
Instance: 11
ClassnameNN: Static11
Name:
Advanced (Class): [CLASS:Static; INSTANCE:11]
ID: 51
Text:
Position: -5, -45
Size: 460, 355
ControlClick Coords: 163, 85
Style: 0x5000010E
ExStyle: 0x00000000
Handle: 0x00220B82
>>>> Mouse <<<<
Position: 899, 435
Cursor ID: 0
Color: 0xFFFFFF
>>>> StatusBar <<<<
>>>> ToolsBar <<<<
>>>> Visible Text <<<<
>>>> Hidden Text <<<<

[water]

The following example will list the 3rd drive in the WIndows Explorer for Desktop -> Computer:

#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=y
#include <array.au3>
$sTitle = "[Class:CabinetWClass]"
$sID = "Desktop|#0|#2"

$sResult = ControlTreeView($sTitle, "", 100, "Select", $sID)
ConsoleWrite($sResult &amp; "|" &amp; @error&amp; @LF)
$sResult = ControlTreeView($sTitle, "", 100, "GetText", $sID)
ConsoleWrite($sResult &amp; "|" &amp; @error&amp; @LF)
$sResult = ControlTreeView($sTitle, "", 100, "GetItemCount", $sID)
ConsoleWrite($sResult &amp; "|" &amp; @error&amp; @LF)

if you run a 64 bit OS and want to automate a 64 bit application you have to set "#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=y". Edited October 30, 2012 by water