The obvious escapes me

[Mike Horowitz]

Over the last two months I"ve been trying to write a script to turn a recording application (Screamer Radio) on and off. Although the forum has stuck with me as I tried to get 'sleep' to work, then the coding of a loop which checks how much time has elapsed before continuing, neither attempt met with success (both would do OK until I recoded for a 2 hr delay at which point they would continue indefinitely).

So, I settled on a program which started Screamer (which works fine) and a second script which should shut it off at a scheduled time; that time being set by MS's scheduler.

So I wrote the following:

WinActivate("Screamer Radio v0.3.8") ; this to give the window focus

Sleep(5000)

send ("!s") ; stop the recording, really unneeded

send ("!f") ; pull down the File choices

Sleep(3000)

send("x") ; Exit

Exit

I tried this as a script and the window that got focus was the SCIte window; displayed its file menu just as if I had wanted it to.

So, why didn't the Screamer window get the focus? - Mike

[Shevilie]

If WinExists("Screamer") Then

WinClose("Screamer")

MsgBox(0,0,"I found the window")

EndIf

Edited March 18, 2007 by Shevilie

[Mike Horowitz]

If WinExists("Screamer") Then

WinClose("Screamer")

MsgBox(0,0,"I found the window")

EndIf

Sorry, doesn't work; doesn't even bring the target into focus i.e. change the grayed out border of Screamer to blue. - Mike

[PaulIA]

Over the last two months I"ve been trying to write a script to turn a recording application (Screamer Radio) on and off. Although the forum has stuck with me as I tried to get 'sleep' to work, then the coding of a loop which checks how much time has elapsed before continuing, neither attempt met with success (both would do OK until I recoded for a 2 hr delay at which point they would continue indefinitely).

So, I settled on a program which started Screamer (which works fine) and a second script which should shut it off at a scheduled time; that time being set by MS's scheduler.

So I wrote the following:

WinActivate("Screamer Radio v0.3.8") ; this to give the window focus

Sleep(5000)

send ("!s") ; stop the recording, really unneeded

send ("!f") ; pull down the File choices

Sleep(3000)

send("x") ; Exit

Exit

I tried this as a script and the window that got focus was the SCIte window; displayed its file menu just as if I had wanted it to.

So, why didn't the Screamer window get the focus? - Mike

I downloaded Screamer, ran it and then ran your script and it works just fine as long as a song isn't playing. When a song is playing, Screamer's title changes to the song title, so WinActivate will always fail. If you want to kill Screamer, just execute:

ProcessClose("screamer.exe")

[Shevilie]

Sorry, doesn't work; doesn't even bring the target into focus i.e. change the grayed out border of Screamer to blue. - Mike

Well if theres no message box here - then the window is not found, try to use the Autoit Info Tool to see wht the title is

[Mike Horowitz]

If you want to kill Screamer, just execute:

ProcessClose("screamer.exe")

Well, that sure worked!

Thanks - Mike

[PaulIA]

Well, that sure worked!

Thanks - Mike

You could do it another way too. When you start Screamer, you know what the title is, so use WinGetHandle to get the window handle. You can then use the "ordinary" AutoIt commands to send commands to Screamer when songs are playing.