if this window opens do this, but if this windows do that

[ZepheR]

Hi guys,

I'm hoping some of you brainboxes can help me solve this problem. I'm writing a little autoit program (my 1st actually, and i must say I'm enjoying it loads) which will automate system benchmarks. All is going really well expect for this little problem I'm trying to solve.

My program opens a benchmark and runs it, if all goes well the bench finishes and my program takes the results and logs them. The trouble is though, if the bench is aborted my program sits there waiting on a results window that will never appear. So what I am trying to do is something like this.

If <window A opens> then

<do window A function>

ElseIF <window B opens> then

<do window B function>

EndIF

I hope I explained that well enough...

I can't work out a way to do this, or if it's even possible, so any help given will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[MHz]

Just a thought...

$time = TimerInit()
While TimerDiff($time) < 10000
    If <window A opens> then 
        <do window A function>
    ElseIF <window B opens> then
        <do window B function>
    EndIF
    Sleep(500)
WEnd

[Emperor]

While 1
  If WinExists("Window1") Then
    Window1Func()
    ExitLoop
  ElseIf WinExists("Window2") Then
    Window2Func()
    ExitLoop
  EndIf
WEnd

Perhaps this does the trick

[ZepheR]

While 1
  If WinExists("Window1") Then
    Window1Func()
    ExitLoop
  ElseIf WinExists("Window2") Then
    Window2Func()
    ExitLoop
  EndIf
WEnd

Perhaps this does the trick

Firstly, thanks for your prompt replies!

This does exactly what I need to do, the only problem is that the loop uses 100% cpu, which affects the benchmarks I'm trying to run.

Any ideas if this can be done without eating so much cpu time?

Edit: Ahha! Adding a sleep(500) cuts down a lot of cpu time. I'll play about to find the best balance but this method seems to work good. Thanks a lot.

Edited June 4, 2006 by ZepheR

[Emperor]

Yes, add a Sleep() just before the WEnd.

Edited June 4, 2006 by Emperor

[Uten]

I think you will find the regexp support in the Win* functions helpfull

While 1
AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
WinWaitActive("regexp=.*[Nn]otepad.*|[cC]:\\.*")
msgbox(0,"ACTIVE",WinGetTitle(""),20)
WEnd

Edited June 4, 2006 by Uten