Kaitsu Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 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? My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaitsu Posted September 18, 2013 Author Share Posted September 18, 2013 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 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. My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaitsu Posted September 18, 2013 Author Share Posted September 18, 2013 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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