Wait

[jvanegmond]

A large part in automation is timing related. You want to wait for a window to appear. For a control to become enabled. You don't want your script to hang so you specify some timeout with a generic failure behavior. AutoIt solves that with special methods: WinWait, WinWaitClose, WinWaitActive, WinWaitNotActive. You can use those or you implement your custom solution which way too quickly becomes verbose (example in spoiler tags below).

Without crippling the question by including an answer: How can we do this better?

 

Const $TIMEOUT_MS = 5000
Const $CHECKWAIT_MS = 100

; Waiting for something to be true with a timeout and error handler
$start = TimerInit()
Local $success = False
While TimerDiff($start) < $TIMEOUT_MS
    $success = MyCondition()
    If $success Then ExitLoop
    Sleep($CHECKWAIT_MS)
WEnd
If Not $success Then
    MyErrorHandler()
EndIf

Func MyCondition()
    Static $n = 0
    $n += 1
    If $n == 10 Then
        Return True
    Else
        Return False
    EndIf
EndFunc

Func MyErrorHandler()
    ConsoleWriteError("Something happened" & @CRLF)
    Exit 1
EndFunc

 

 

 

[JohnOne]

I generally do mine a little different, similar too the following usually.

Const $TIMEOUT_MS = 5000
Const $CHECKWAIT_MS = 100

; Waiting for something to be true with a timeout and error handler
$start = TimerInit()
Local $success = False

While 3
    If MyCondition() Then
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
    If TimerDiff($start) >= $TIMEOUT_MS Then
        MyErrorHandler()
    EndIf

    Sleep($CHECKWAIT_MS)
WEnd

Func MyCondition()
    Static $n = 0
    $n += 1
    If $n == 10 Then
        Return True
    Else
        Return False
    EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>MyCondition

Func MyErrorHandler()
    ConsoleWrite("Something happened" & @CRLF)
    Exit 1
EndFunc   ;==>MyErrorHandler