WinWaitActive window targeting problem

[wysocki]

I'm trying to create a script that watches for a small popup to appear, then captures it for me (either an image or the contents). The popup is created by a Chrome browser plugin called "Pandora Enhancer". Whenever a song changes in Pandora, the plugin creates the small popup display showing info about the song. Unfortunately, Au3Info shows no window title, and the class is the same the main Pandora browser window, and the handle varies each time it pops up. The only other possibility is that the Window Matching Modes of AutoIt appear to be able to find a window based upon X/Y/W/H. However, the help file and other sources don't show me the syntax I'd need to use this, if it's even doable. The popup position is 1550,950 and the size is 360,80.

What's the syntax to match a window based upon position and size? Will this idea even work? Are there any alternatives?

[jdelaney]

You can do a winlist based on the class...then loop until an additional window is included in the array...use that handle to do your additional scripting.

[wysocki]

Interesting approach, delaney! But right off the start, I hit a problem. If I just start Chrome then do:

WinList("[CLASS:Chrome_WidgetWin_1]")

I get two items in the array. One has the title of the main window, the other has a blank title (which is what my target popup also has). When the popup appears, I DO get another item in the winlist array but I'm not sure how to tell which one is my new popup. If I have multiple Chrome windows running, it appears that each real window has another invisible handle created. I suppose I could capture the existing window handles when Chrome starts up, before the popup appears, then watch for a new different one (as long as I don't open another Chrome window). I'll play with that idea.

Still, I wonder if there's a way to use the X/Y/W/H as implied in the docs since the popup always appears in the same place?

[jdelaney]

sure, just loop through the array, verify the win state is visible (wingetstate), you can look at the wingetpos to get the size, ...profit?