Waiting for action

[Tobytja]

Hello,

I need to modify an au3 script I got.

The script simulates user actions in certain software and sometime pauses for several seconds, because the software is quite slow. Sometimes the scripts sleeps for more than a minute just to be sure it doesn't go ahead of the software. Like a command is given to the software to open a dialogue window, which sometimes takes a very long time. So the script waits for a minute to be sure the window is opened. But sometimes (most of the time) the window is opened after some 10 seconds and the script waits for almost a minute in vain, which impedes work.

So I need some feature to tell the script "Wait until something happens". This is the example of the script:

Send("{ALTDOWN}4{ALTUP}")
        Send("{DOWN}{DOWN}{DOWN}{DOWN}")
        Send("{ENTER}")
        sleep(40000)
        Send("{ENTER}")
            #Add activity history
        sleep(1500)
        send("Issue is PtC: Report from SDM shows 0 violations.")
        sleep(200)
        Send("{tab}")
        sleep(200)
        Send("{space}")

Anyone able to help?

Thanks in advance

[orbs]

instead of Sleep(), use WinWaitActive() to wait for the desired window to appear. see the AutoIt help, there are examples and totorials there,

[Tobytja]

OK, thanks. Now if the window has no title at all and only empty text field is its contents, can I just put WinWaitActive("") in the script?

[orbs]

do this first:

1) use the tool "AutoIt Window Info" (installed with AutoIt), it will give you all the info you need to identify the window

2) look at the help for WinWaitActive() to see what parameters you can work with.

the rest you will simply need to try.

[Tobytja]

OK, thanks