Please Help: How to reactivate a window that the title has changed?

[Fatty]

What I would like to achieve is activating a twitter page that is already open and then switching over to a facebook page that is already open and then back to the open twitter page. The problem I am having is that the title on the twitter page changes with the corresponding new tweets it receives and it won't reactivate. I thought Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",2) would do what I need but maybe I am doing it wrong.

Please excuse me if this is basic but I appreciate everyone's reply and willingness to help me.

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",2)
_WinWaitActivate("Nintendo of America (NintendoAmerica) on Twitter - Windows Internet Explorer","")
Send("{F5}")
Sleep(5000)

_WinWaitActivate("Nintendo | Facebook - Windows Internet Explorer","")
Send("{F5}")
Sleep(5000)


_WinWaitActivate("(2) Nintendo of America (NintendoAmerica) on Twitter - Windows Internet Explorer","")
Send("{F5}")
Sleep(5000)

[Mechaflash]

Grab the window handle before doing anything. The title may change, but the handle will not.

[Fatty]

Here is what I tried but still no luck. Am I doing this wrong Mechaflash? The results I get are activating the facebook page, waiting 2 seconds and then activating the twitter page and then 2 more seconds after that it just flashes on the existing twitter page without actually changing back over to the facebook page. I am also curious on if the twitter page activates once a new tweet shows up and changes the title. I am waiting on a new tweet to test that functionality.

$fFlag = True
$FacebookHandle = WinGetHandle("Nintendo | Facebook - Windows Internet Explorer","")
$TwitterHandle = WinGetHandle("Nintendo of America (NintendoAmerica) on Twitter - Windows Internet Explorer","")


While $fFlag = True



WinActivate($FacebookHandle,"")
Sleep(2000)



WinActivate($TwitterHandle,"")
Sleep(2000)

WEnd

[jdelaney]

you don't have any error handling to make sure that the handle was found. Also, are these tabs, or are they their own browsers?

Do something like this for each handle:

If Not IsHwnd(yourhandle) Then msgbox(1,1,"not able to find window")

Edited December 14, 2012 by jdelaney

[GMK]

Another option is to use _IEAttach to have multiple objects that you manipulate.

[Fatty]

I added the error handling and found out that when I start the script I have it doesn't work if I have either of those handles already activated. I opened up another tab to google and then started the script and it worked like I wanted it to. Not sure why I have to select another tab before executing but somehow that did the trick. Now if I can figure out why the other tab is necessary. I guess I could leave it in there and never activate the window but that is just a workaround rather than a fix. Thank you everyone for your help on this.