If statement not working

[Docfxit]

I would like to understand why the If statement doesn't skip the code.  At the time the If statement runs $title = 0

$title = WinGetTitle("Delete items?", "")
WinActivate($title, "")
$text = WinGetText("", "")
$text = StringStripCR($text)
$TextLine = StringSplit($text, @LF)

If $title = "Delete items?" Then
    WinWait("Delete items?", "Folders and files no")
    If Not WinActive("Delete items?", "Folders and files no") Then WinActivate("Delete items?", "Folders and files no")
    WinWaitActive("Delete items?", "Folders and files no")
    Send("{SHIFTDOWN}{TAB}{SHIFTUP}{SPACE}{TAB}{ENTER}{ENTER}{ENTER}{ENTER}")
EndIf

Thank you,

Docfxit

Running AutoIt ver. 3.3.10.2

Win7 64bit

[jdelaney]

Using the title, to return the title...

I'd suggest looking into using window and control handles for more robust execution.

WinGetHandle
ControlGetHandle
ControlFocus

ControlSetText
ControlClick







To directly answer your question, you are comparing an integer of 0, to a string, which will pass.

Run this, and see what you should do...also, the internet helpfile for winGetTitle is not correct...it returns 0 on failure, not an empty string.

ConsoleWrite((0="delete something")& @crlf)
ConsoleWrite((string(0)="delete something")& @crlf)
ConsoleWrite(WinGetTitle("going to fail")& @crlf)

Edited April 9, 2014 by jdelaney

[Docfxit]

Thanks for the reply...

I'm not understanding what you are trying to show me.

When I run this:

ConsoleWrite((0="delete something")& @crlf)
ConsoleWrite((string(0)="delete something")& @crlf)
ConsoleWrite(WinGetTitle("going to fail")& @crlf)

I get results in the console window:

True

False

I have no idea what is happening.

Thanks,

Docfxit

Edited April 9, 2014 by Docfxit

[jdelaney]

I'm showing you what happens when you compare strings with integers (won't have your expected results), and integers converted to strings with strings (will have your expected results).

Look at the differences.

[Docfxit]

I added some code:

ConsoleWrite("1 - " & (0="delete something")& @crlf)
ConsoleWrite("2 - " & (string(0)="delete something")& @crlf)
ConsoleWrite("3 - " & WinGetTitle("going to fail")& @crlf)

 

Now I get output that looks like this:

1 - True
2 - False
3 - 0

I am going to take a guess that what you are trying to tell me is:

1 - True          This isn't working
2 - False         This is working
3 - 0                This isn't working

Is that correct?

Docfxit

[jchd]

What that example demonstrates is this: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/intro/lang_datatypes.htm

More specifically, the "If a string is used as a" parts in the first page.