UDF: _WinWaitActiveOf

[dabus]

This is a simple udf that's useful if you don't know what window will appear in an installation-process (e.g. you have a setup that show diffrent windows if the system has been installed before.)

Here's an example:

$Test=_WinWaitActiveOf('Unbenannt|', 'Unnamed|', 'Untitled|','New|',1)
ConsoleWrite($Test&@CR)
; you should see an 0 here
Run('notepad.exe')
$Test=_WinWaitActiveOf('Unbenannt|', 'Unnamed|', 'Untitled|','New|',5) 
ConsoleWrite($Test&@CR)
; you should see an 1 or 3 here, depending on @OSLang
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[Uten]

Are you aware of the fact that you can use regular expressions with the Win* family of functions?

Try this code:

HotKeySet("!{ESC}", "Terminate")
opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
WinWaitActive("regexp=.*Opera|.*Firefox|.*Thunderbird|.*Untitled.*")
msgbox(48, "Active window is", WinGetTitle("active"))

Anyhow thanks for sharing your code..

[dabus]

I should read about the regexp; your idea seems ten times better then mine.

Wait with the regexp and see what's active. Oh boy, never code if it's weekend.