How to wait for a dialog to be ready

[BobFX]

Hi,

I have a dialog in SubtitleEdit that loos like that when it's finished working:

 

Notice on the bottom the text in red that appears when the dialog has finished.

How do I read the content of this lower status area?

If I knew,  could use:

$ready = 0

while $ready <> 1

$x = {red content}

{code to set $ready to 1 if #x contains the word "errors" or "nothing"}

wend

[Subz]

What happens when you point the AutoIt Windows Tool to the box?  Does it give you the control id?  If so you can then use Control functions to get the text.

[BobFX]

The tool shows what I want in "visible text", thanks.

I'm  testing with WinGetText() and get back if it works.

 

[BobFX]

Ok, thanks to your suggestion to use the tool, I got this working:

  $ready = 0
  while $ready <> 1
     Sleep(200)
     $Text = WinGetText ("Fix common error")
     $match  = StringInStr ( $Text, "errors" , 0)
     If $match > 1 then
       $ready = 1
     ElseIf
       $match  = StringInStr ( $Text, "nothing" , 0)
       If $match > 1 then $ready = 1
     Endif
  wend
 

Edited March 2, 2020 by BobFX

[Subz]

You could also use ControlGetText and use Control Id to select the control.

[BobFX]

I tried, but somehow I misread something, and it did not work.

But I'm getting an error in expression sometimes here, with a line number that's way above the number of lines of the file. Any idea what's wrong in my syntax?

 

[Musashi]

11 minutes ago, BobFX said:

But I'm getting an error in expression sometimes here, with a line number that's way above the number of lines of the file.

This is because the lines of the includes are also counted.

@BobFX : EDIT -> Have a look e.g. at  scriptlinenumber-shows-incorrect-line-number

Edited March 2, 2020 by Musashi

[Subz]

You would need to be more specific, if you're using the full AutoIt Editor, run the code within Scite and check the Scite console as to where the issue is.

[Nine]

Please provide the content of Au3Info.exe for that specific line control...

[BobFX]

I made a syntax error just after the includes, at line 10, and I got an error at line 6368, so I should remove 6358 to the error number if I understand well.

The problem is I get the error at line 6464, so it should be 6464-6358 = line 106 in the file.

But 106 is well before the new code where I get the error, so I'm baffled.

I attached both the au3 file, and a PDF showing the line numbers for clarity.

The new code includes a third possible string and is:

>  $ready = 0
>  while $ready <> 1
>     Sleep(200)
>     $Text = WinGetText ("Fix common error")
>     $match  = StringInStr ( $Text, "errors" , 0)
>     If $match > 1 then
>       $ready = 1
>     ElseIf
>       $match  = StringInStr ( $Text, "nothing" , 0)
>       If $match > 1 then
>          $ready = 1
>       ElseIf
>          $match  = StringInStr ( $Text, "applied" , 0)
>          If $match > 1 then
>            $ready = 1
>          Endif
>       Endif
>     Endif
>  wend
 

I'm not sure if:

>    If $match > 1 then $ready = 1

is correct, so I used instead:

>          If $match > 1 then
>            $ready = 1
>          Endif

Thanks for your help guys.

 

 

DoCleanSubs-3.5.13.pdf DoCleanSubs-3.5.13.au3

[BobFX]

2 hours ago, Nine said:

Please provide the content of Au3Info.exe for that specific line control...

Here:

 

[BobFX]

I found the syntax error: using ElseIF instead of Else.

Not sure yet it will work as intended.

 

[BobFX]

Here is the much cleaner code that seems to work:

 

  $ready = 0
  while $ready <> 1
     Sleep(200)
     $Text = WinGetText ("Fix common error")
     $match1  = StringInStr ( $Text, "errors" , 0)
     $match2  = StringInStr ( $Text, "Nothing" , 0)
     $match3  = StringInStr ( $Text, "applied" , 0)
     $match4  = StringInStr ( $Text, "fixes" , 0)
     If ($match1 > 0) or ($match2 > 0) or ($match3 > 0) or ($match4 > 0) Then
       $ready = 1
     EndIf
  wend