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How to wait until after MouseClicks have been completed


TylerH
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I have a desktop healthcare application with no ControlIDs, and there's a list I need to scroll through and select multiple entries from. Below is my code for that section of the automation script. As you can see, I have a lot of MouseClick() and Sleep() functions. Two of the MouseClick() lines have many clicks, but these clicks are very slow, and for some reason AutoIt doesn't just know to wait until a MouseClick() has completed all its clicks before moving on, hence my sleep times of several seconds in a couple places.

Is there a way to have my script wait until the specified number of clicks have happened?

MouseClick("", 320, 239, 1, 1)
MouseClick("", 509, 185, 1, 1)
Sleep(100)
Send("IDWG GRP Income")
Sleep(100)
MouseClick("", 556, 330, 1, 1)
Sleep(100)
MouseClick("", 717, 328, 1, 1)
Send("{CTRLDOWN}")
MouseClick("", 536, 330, 1, 2)
Send("{CTRLUP}")
Sleep(100)
MouseClick("", 717, 328, 72, 1)
Sleep(8300)
Send("{CTRLDOWN}")
MouseClick("", 536, 330, 1, 2)
Send("{CTRLUP}")
Sleep(200)
MouseClick("", 717, 328, 23, 1)
Sleep(2700)
Send("{CTRLDOWN}")
MouseClick("", 536, 330, 1, 2)
Send("{CTRLUP}")
MouseClick("", 517, 366, 1, 2)
Sleep(200)

I should note that my script is completely functional. I tried MouseDown and MouseUp, and just setting Sleep() to the number of ms needed to go the distance on the list, but that produced inconsistent results across different machines (and even across different attempts on the same machine...).

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AutoIt always waits until the MouseClick has completed. But Autoit does not know how long it should wait until an action triggered by a mouseclick has ended.
Imagine you click on a button to load a web page. How should AutoIt know which action you triggered and when the page has loaded?

After the mouseclick you need to check that the triggered action has completed and then move on with your script.

BTW: Welcome to AutoIt and the forum!

Edited by water

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Thanks for the welcome. Hmm, I see what you mean; the mouse clicks do complete, but then the scrolling action is still going. Unfortunately I don't see a way to detect when the scrolling animation has completely scrolled down to the next item.

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In this case we need more information. Example:

  • The name of the application
  • The output of the AutoIt Window Info Tool
  • A screen shot how the application looks like before and after the click

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The name of the application is PrimeSUITE by Greenway Health. Which tab do you need to see from the Info Tool (the Control info is largely blank, no matter where on the screen I hover, the ClassnameNN shows Internet Explorer_Server1 INSTANCE:1)? The application looks the exact same before and after the multi-mouse click, except the scroll bar is slightly lower down. I can't post a full screenshot because it's proprietary information and contains PHI. Here's what I can show you:

 

After:

after.jpg

Before:

before.jpg

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You might be able to do this with the IE* UDF library.

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That's why I was asking for more information. Your reply moved the discussion into a new direction ;)
Hopefully this leads to a solution for your problem :)

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PowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki
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Word - Wiki

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WebDriver - Wiki

 

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