using WinWaitActive within a string; maximize a minimized window

[traltixx]

Hi,

Im rather new to AutoIt and am not sure if it has the capability to do what I want. What Im trying to do is wait for a certain window to come up, maximize it and set it as active so that I may use Send() to give commands. There are 2 problems here that Im facing:

1) The full name of the window title is unknown except that it ends with a certain string (thus Im attempting to use WinWaitActive but cant seem to use wildcards or regular expressions).

2) The window might possibly be minimized.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Daniel W.]

Lookup:

WinTitleMatchMode

WinGetState

WinSetState

@SW_MAXIMIZE

WinActivate

WinActive

[Bert]

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) ; use any part of the window name
$wintitle = "use any part of the window title here"
$wintext = "use any part of the window text here if needed"
winwait($wintitle, $wintext)
sleep(50)
WinSetState($wintitle, $wintext, @SW_MAXIMIZE)
sleep(200)
WinActivate($wintitle, $wintext)
sleep(50)
send("what ever key you like")

Edited August 10, 2006 by vollyman

[traltixx]

Thanks.

Although running WinSetState without $wintext gives an error, but setting $wintext to "" seems to solve it (and i dont need to search for text anyway).

Thanks alot guys

[traltixx]

Also I noticed that AutoIt does not work when a windows machine is locked.

Is this intended or hard to get around?

Thanks again!