WinWaitActive and Screen Saver

[darren]

Hi All,

I have written a script that sits and waits (using WinWaitActive) for a certain window to popup. When the window pops up it closes it.

I am running on NT and Win2k and my problem is that if I have the screen locked via C-A-D - lock computer the winwaitactive does not return. As soon as I unlock the computer I see the popup and then it immediately gets killed by my utility. I have also tried to use WinWait instead - same result.

Any Ideas ?

[pekster]

... As soon as I unlock the computer I see the popup and then it immediately gets killed by my utility.

Isn't this what you said you designed your script to do? Wait for a window to exist and close it?

[ezzetabi]

Maybe he wants to kill the popup even before?

In that case we have to know how do you try to close the window.

Sending a keystroke may not work, but WinClose should.

Edited July 14, 2004 by ezzetabi

[darren]

Sorry All - The problem was that I had 2 WinWaitActive calls. I had only changed one of them to WinWait. Once the screen lock was on the window was not deemed to be 'active' until I unlocked the screen.

Thanks for all replies ...