Counting a repetitive process to a file, problem

[Kaitsu]

Hi, I am fairly new to AutoIt scripting. I would like to make a simple counter that writes a line (date + timestamp) to a text file everytime a window appears. My code works on some level. I use windows calculator in this example.

 

It waits for the window to appear and then writes on the text file ok. But there are 2 questions. The first one is that it floods the txt file with lines as long as the calculator-window is open. I would want only one line for every instance the calculator-window opens. And the second question is how can I loop it so that when calculator opens it writes the line to the txt-file and then waits again for calculator to open and writes again. So a simple log-file is what I am trying to do. Thanks in advance for your help!

 

WinWait("Calculator")

If WinActive("Calculator") Then

 

$file = FileOpen("d:tempcounter.txt", 1)

If $file = -1 Then

    Exit

EndIf

FileWriteLine($file, "Opened, " & @MDAY & "." & @MON & "." & @YEAR & " " & @HOUR & ":" & @MIN & @CRLF)

FileClose($file)

 

ElseIf

WinWait("Calculator")

EndIf

Edited September 18, 2013 by Kaitsu

[water]

Welcome to AutoIt and the forum!

Can you please describe why you want to monitor the number of times a window is opened? What do you try to achieve?

[Kaitsu]

Welcome to AutoIt and the forum!

Can you please describe why you want to monitor the number of times a window is opened? What do you try to achieve?

Hi,

Actually I am trying to make a simple report from the data that this little counter should give me. It would then tell me how many times a day the process/window appears and the exact time of day that this occurs. So it would give me a nice simple report. The actual window in my final version that appears is more like "operation successful". And I am trying to count/monitor these processes.

I am a part of a small business. And we have 8 computers on which this little counter should be used to write on a single file which is on a shared network drive. The window I am trying to count is a "ok/done -confirmation window" that is the repetitive process, that a user must click. It would then give us a report how many times the process has been done. Hope this clears:)

Edited September 18, 2013 by Kaitsu

[water]

Depending where on the world you are located it might be needed to check this with the works council.

I would use function WinList. Each window is returned with a handle. By comparing the handle you can make sure to only count unique windows.

[Kaitsu]

Depending where on the world you are located it might be needed to check this with the works council.

I would use function WinList. Each window is returned with a handle. By comparing the handle you can make sure to only count unique windows.

 

I am from Finland. And it should be completely legal and almost everything else is monitored for reports. This was just my idea that we could monitor it using AutoIt. I will try to look on the WinList function. Seems a bit confusing, but might take a while to figure it out.

In my case the window is always closed after it appears, so there is just one window open at a time.

Edited September 18, 2013 by Kaitsu