winwait can not find the web popup window

[temp00]

I'm using AutoIt to handle a login webpage, when "Logout" is clicked, a popup window appears, but winwait() can not find this window

#include<IE.au3>
Local $IE, $Form1


$IE=_IECreate("http://210.77.16.29/indexE.html", 0,1,1,1);
$Form1=_IEFormGetObjByName($IE, "form1")
_IELinkClickByText($Form1, "Logout")

WinWait("Message from webpage")
Msgbox(1, "Info", "Popup window found“)

The script just waited and waited... The above code has been tested on Win7 64 and WinXP 32, just not working. Anybody knows why?

Edited April 27, 2013 by temp00

[temp00]

OK, I tried tons of methods, and it turned out the whole script would hang after "_IELinkClickByText($Form1, "Logout")" no matter what command following.

I've to manually click the popup's "OK" button, then the script will continue.

So, any solution?

[junkew]

I would say just before you click start a second autoitscript that only handles that specific button to click

probably not the most elegant solution but should work

[Bowmore]

Have you tried this? It works for me.

#include<IE.au3>
Local $IE, $Form1
$IE=_IECreate("http://210.77.16.29/indexE.html", 0,1,1,1);
_IELoadWait($IE)
$Form1=_IEFormGetObjByName($IE, "form1")
$ret = _IELinkClickByText($Form1, "Logout")
WinWait("Message from we")
Msgbox(1, "Info", "Popup window found")

[junkew]

or check this thread

[temp00]

To Bowmore: I tried your code and no luck. The only difference between your code and mine is the "title" parameter for winwait().

To junkew: I followed that thread, and still no luck. The winwait() function just hung the script.

According to my test, I suspect this might be a bug of AutoIt, because the same script occasionally worked (not working for most of the time), My environment is Win7 64+IE10 and WinXP 32+IE8

[MouseSpotter]

@temp00: there is nothing wrong with AutoIt - no single threaded program will be able to catch the popup.

If you look at the webpage's link ... it has <a onclick="force_logout();return false;" href="#">

The COM object sends the click to the link ... then waits for the click event to finish

The click event lasts until force_logout returns.

force_logout waits for the user to answer the message (OK,cancel)

So AutoIt also waits.

My solution would be to run a second script that waits for the message (maybe just before you do the click) - this clicks the message for you and exits. The click event completes, your above autoit script continues (no need for the WinWait)

[temp00]

Great! I'm not familiar with Web coding, thanks MouseSpotter, now I have the answer!

@temp00: there is nothing wrong with AutoIt - no single threaded program will be able to catch the popup.

If you look at the webpage's link ... it has <a onclick="force_logout();return false;" href="#">

The COM object sends the click to the link ... then waits for the click event to finish

The click event lasts until force_logout returns.

force_logout waits for the user to answer the message (OK,cancel)

So AutoIt also waits.

My solution would be to run a second script that waits for the message (maybe just before you do the click) - this clicks the message for you and exits. The click event completes, your above autoit script continues (no need for the WinWait)

[Bowmore]

To Bowmore: I tried your code and no luck. The only difference between your code and mine is the "title" parameter for winwait().

You did not look at my code very closely then. The code I wrote works every time with the URL you supplied.

Did you ignore this line?

_IELoadWait($IE)

Edited May 2, 2013 by Bowmore

[temp00]

You did not look at my code very closely then. The code I wrote works every time with the URL you supplied.

Did you ignore this line?

_IELoadWait($IE)

Yes I noticed that line, and it didn't work for me--It's kind of strange that occasionally the code would capture the popup window (this is not stable), so I'm confused~