How To Set A Variable In Winactivate?

[Old_Man_Winter]

Hi,

I'm new here, just discovered Autoit and it rocks!

I also have my first problem:

I want to activate a large number of successive windows: title = Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3 .... Figure N

in a do/untill or for/next loop.

eg:

$n = 0

Do

    $n = $n + 1

    WinActivate("Figure $n")

Until $n = 200

Only this doesn't work of course. How do I put a variable in the WinActivate title ?

Thanks alot

[MrBeatnik]

This should work (without testing):

$n = 0
Do
   $n = $n + 1
   WinActivate("Figure " & $n, "")
Until $n = 200

Forgot the , "" on the WinActivate Function.

Edited May 10, 2006 by MrBeatnik

[Old_Man_Winter]

Nope, doesn't seem to work.

The full title is "Figure No.1" etc. So I tried:

$n = 0
Do
  $n = $n + 1
  WinActivate("Figure No." & $n, "")
  sleep(1000)
Until $n = 200

But nothing opens

[MHz]

Wait for the window, then use WinActivate.

A For loop has a counter to suit use

For $n = 1 To 200
    WinWait("Figure No." & $n)
    WinActivate("Figure No." & $n)
    Sleep(1000)
Next

Edited May 10, 2006 by MHz

[Old_Man_Winter]

Sorry

Tried it and it isn't working either

[seandisanti]

Sorry

Tried it and it isn't working either

yeah, the reason your first attempt wasn't working was because you have to concatenate the variable in as in the samples given. I bet, just based on the number of windows with successive titles like that, you're probably trying to activate child windows. try this...

Opt("WinSearchChildren",1)
$n = 1
While WinExists("Figure No." & $n)
WinActivate("Figure No." & $n)
$n = $n + 1
WEnd

[blueschism]

This should work (without testing):

WinActivate("Figure " & $n, "")

I'm having trouble activating a window using only a variable.

Is there any reason that this shouldn't work?

WinActivate($var)

Thanks,

mike

Edited May 12, 2006 by blueschism

[MHz]

I'm having trouble activating a window using only a variable.

Is there any reason that this shouldn't work?

WinActivate($var)

Thanks,

mike

It will work, if feed the correct string that the variable holds.

Sorry, but the info that you supply is at best, guessing to solve.

[Bert]

You may want to do a winexists on each window, and use that information to build a array. From that information, you could do your winactivate.

[blueschism]

It will work, if feed the correct string that the variable holds.

Sorry, but the info that you supply is at best, guessing to solve.

I'm pulling parts quantities out of an AS400 system and updating one of 2 user selected excel spreadsheets. The AS400 window and both excel spreadsheets are open in the background when attempting this. It's not correctly grabbing the spreadsheet. Here are the sections that apply.

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Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) 

; which excel doc?
$aLoop = 1
While $aLoop = 1
    $xlsin = InputBox("Get stock amounts", "Enter:" & @CRLF & @CRLF & "1 for TOP 100" & @CRLF & "2 for Manual", "", "")
    If @error = 1 Then
        Exit
    Else
        If $xlsin = 1 Then
            $spreadsheet = "Top"
            ExitLoop
        ElseIf $xlsin = 2 Then
            $spreadsheet = "manual"
            ExitLoop
        Else
            MsgBox(4096, "Error", "You typed in the wrong thing - try again!")
        EndIf
    EndIf
WEnd

; which line?
$bLoop = 1
While $bLoop = 1
    $ROW = InputBox("XLS Line to start on", "Enter Row number to start on", "2")
    If @error = 1 Then
        Exit
    ElseIf $ROW >= 2 Then
        $ROW = Int($ROW)
        ExitLoop
    EndIf  
WEnd

; start at excel field
WinActivate($spreadsheet)
Send("^{HOME}")
Send("{DOWN " & $ROW & "}")
Send("{UP}")

The 2 excel docs are called:

Top 100 Parts.xls

manual spreadsheet.xls

Any suggestions appreciated,

mike

Edited May 12, 2006 by blueschism