WinWaitActive Question

[experience]

I've written a script and part of it changes the CD drive letter. The problem i've just encountered is that on new laptops the CD drive is D and on desktops its E.

I initially wrote my script for laptops but need to change it to include desktops hence the E drive.

When the script runs on desktops it stops because of the following:

WinWaitActive("Change Drive Letter and Paths for D: ()")

Is there a way i can keep the WinWaitActive but to wait for Either D or E ?

If not i'l just have to get rid of the WinWaitActive and use a sleep command

Edited June 12, 2007 by experience

[herewasplato]

WinWaitActive("Change Drive Letter and Paths for")

Edit: AutoIt matches the title from the start by default unless you have changed it via Opt/WinTitleMatchMode - if so, change it back just before the WinWait...

Edited June 12, 2007 by herewasplato

[MisterBates]

I've written a script and part of it changes the CD drive letter. The problem i've just encountered is that on new laptops the CD drive is D and on desktops its E.

I initially wrote my script for laptops but need to change it to include desktops hence the E drive.

When the script runs on desktops it stops because of the following:

WinWaitActive("Change Drive Letter and Paths for D: ()")

Is there a way i can keep the WinWaitActive but to wait for Either D or E ?

If not i'l just have to get rid of the WinWaitActive and use a sleep command

Look at WinTitleMatchMode 4 (advanced) and use a regular expression 'Change Drive Letter and Paths for [DE]:"

[experience]

WinWaitActive("Change Drive Letter and Paths for")

Yeh i could do that but its a little bit risky incase the script selects the C drive and then changes its drive letter which i dont want to happen

I was thinking of the following but it doesn't work

WinWaitActive("Change Drive Letter and Paths for D: ()")
if not WinActive("Change Drive Letter and Paths for D: ()") then WinWaitActive("Change Drive Letter and Paths for E: ()")

[herewasplato]

You can add a timeout to the first WinWait... but you run the same risk. The OS could be installed on most any drive letter. There is probably a way to find which drive letter is assigned to a CD/DVD.

DriveGetType ()

Edited June 12, 2007 by herewasplato

[/dev/null]

Is there a way i can keep the WinWaitActive but to wait for Either D or E ?

If not i'l just have to get rid of the WinWaitActive and use a sleep command

Try this:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
WinWaitActive ("[REGEXPTITLE:Change Drive Letter and Paths for [DE]: \(\)]")

Replace [DE] with . if you don't care about the drive letter!

Cheers

Kurt

Edited June 13, 2007 by /dev/null

[MHz]

I've written a script and part of it changes the CD drive letter. The problem i've just encountered is that on new laptops the CD drive is D and on desktops its E.

I initially wrote my script for laptops but need to change it to include desktops hence the E drive.

Why should drive letter be important? Your script should be able to work from any drive so long as your not doing something unusual.

[experience]

Try this:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
WinWaitActive ("[REGEXPTITLE:Change Drive Letter and Paths for [DE]: \(\)]")

No that didnt work either

tried putting it in as below

;Changes CDRom Drive to Z
send("{alt}")
sleep(1000)
send("{lwin}{r}")
WinWaitActive("Run")
send("{d}{i}{s}{k}{m}{g}{m}{t}{.}{m}{s}{c}")
send("{enter}")
WinWaitActive("Disk Management")
sleep(10000)
send("{down}")
sleep(3000)
send("{altdown}{a}{altup}{k}{c}")
Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
WinWaitActive ("[REGEXPTITLE:Change Drive Letter and Paths for [DE]: \(\)]")
sleep(2000)
send("{tab 2}{enter}")
WinWaitActive("Change Drive Letter or Path")
send("{tab}{z}{enter}")
WinWaitActive("Confirm")
sleep(1000)
send("{y}")
sleep(2000)
send("{altdown}{f}{x}{altup}")
sleep(8000)
send("{tab 2}{x}")
sleep(5000)

[/dev/null]

No that didnt work either

tried putting it in as below

WinWaitActive ("[REGEXPTITLE:Change Drive Letter and Paths for [DE]: \(\)]")

Seems to be a bug in WinWaitActive with RegExp. Try this:

WinWaitActive ("[REGEXPTITLE:Change Drive Letter and Paths for .: \(\)]")

Cheers

Kurt

[herewasplato]

experience,

This has nothing to do with your WinWaitActive question...

but try this one line ShellExecute("diskmgmt.msc") to start the app.

Also, you do not need to "bracket" every letter.

this:

send("{d}{i}{s}{k}{m}{g}{m}{t}{.}{m}{s}{c}")

and this:

send("diskmgmt.msc")

are the same.

Just FYI...MSP