winmove not working

[sbrady]

can anyone tell from my code below why the last line, the winmove line, does not work. I have to "stop executing" the code.

local $news_project_name = InputBox(8192, "Paste in Project Name", "EGR123 Schools v1")
            ; month
            
            ; set the path for the news both folders 
            $New_News_Incoming_Folder = "F:\Incoming Projects CR6\News\" & $news_project_name
            $New_News_NPR_Folder = "E:\Nuendo Projects CR6\News\" & $news_project_name  & " NPR"
               
               
            ; make the both folder at the usual location
            DirCreate($New_News_Incoming_Folder) ; EGR123 Schools v1
            ;DirCreate($New_News_NPR_Folder) ; EGR123 Schools v1 NPR
            
            
            
            ;open news incoming folder
            ShellExecute ($New_News_Incoming_Folder )
            $thepath2 = "$New_News_Incoming_Folder" 
            $hHandle3 = WinWait("", $thepath2)
            WinMove($hHandle3, "", 100, 300, 900, 600)

[mLipok]

try this

$thepath2 = $New_News_Incoming_Folder
$hHandle3 = WinWait("", $thepath2)

[l3ill]

Hi sbrady,

Looks like your script doesn't close because of winwait (waiting for something that never comes)

which is causing your second problem; getting the handle of the folder window.

Play around with WinGetHandle  & WinTitleMatchMode.

This works but it is not great as it gets the handle of the active window.

;open news incoming folder
ShellExecute($New_News_Incoming_Folder)
Sleep(200)
$handle = WinGetHandle("[ACTIVE]")
WinMove($handle, "", 100, 300, 900, 600)

[mikell]

 

Looks like your script doesn't close because of winwait (waiting for something that never comes)

 

That's the reason why the timeout option exists in WinWait

 

[l3ill]

The timeout is an interesting feature but still not much good if the "Win" you are "Wait" ing for never shows up.

...so your script closes after the alloted time with your window still unmoved...

[BrewManNH]

If the window never shows up, you can't move it either, but at least with the time out it won't hang the script waiting for a window to appear that never will.

[l3ill]

ShellExecute($New_News_Incoming_Folder)
WinWait("", "", 1)
$handle = WinGetHandle("[ACTIVE]")
WinMove($handle, "", 100, 300, 900, 600)

                                 

[mLipok]

Now I had a little more time to think about:

try again:

$thepath2 = $New_News_Incoming_Folder
$hHandle3 = WinWait("[CLASS:CabinetWClass]", $thepath2)

 

HINT:

WinWait second parameter is case sensitive

so you must be careful with path name 

unless you are using:

 

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", -1) ;1=start, 2=subStr, 3=exact, 4=advanced, -1 to -4=Nocase

Edited November 11, 2013 by mlipok

[l3ill]

Sweeet!  

 I had tried cabwclass but I think I forgot to add the CLASS: in front.