WinWaitActive - correct use/syntax

[NeilClough]

Hi all,

I am going through the examples in "Learning to Script with AutoIt V3".

An example is to open and close notepad.

This code works:

Run("notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")
Send("some text")
WinClose("Untitled - Notepad")
; Pick up window asking "Do you want to save changes to Untitled"
WinWaitActive("Notepad","Do")
Sleep(2000)
Send("!n")

If I try and add more text to the second WinWaitActive parameters the script doesn't find the window !!

Run("notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")
Send("some text")
WinClose("Untitled - Notepad")
; Pick up window asking "Do you want to save changes to Untitled"
WinWaitActive("Notepad","Do you")
Sleep(2000)
Send("!n")

Thanks,

Neil

[iamtheky]

use the window info tool as well.

it shows the visible text choices of "Save" "Dont Save" and "Cancel"

this works as expected:

Run("notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")
Send("some text")
WinClose("Untitled - Notepad")
; Pick up window asking "Do you want to save changes to Untitled"
WinWaitActive("Notepad","Save")
Sleep(2000)
Send("!n")

Edited February 26, 2015 by boththose

[NeilClough]

Hi bolthose,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes I did notice that it would work if use "Save" as text.

And just now I realize why it worked when I just had "Do" as a parameter - it is picking up the "Do" from "Don't Save" !!

Does that mean WinWaitActive will not pick up such text as "Do you want to etc etc" on a window ??

Note that as mentioned in my original post,  the "Learning to Script" document states that it should !!