Wait window respond

[pgiusti]

Hi everybody,

I'm doing a automation to a program that uses the "send" command to do some tasks in a specific window. These tasks will be processed in variable time.

My problem is: I need pause my script until the window responds to continue my script.

I tried winwait and winwaitactive commands, but the window exists and is active, and autoit doesn't pauses my script.

How can I do this?

Thanks

Paulo.

[herewasplato]

Welcome to the forum.

Is there any part of the window that changes when the application is ready for the script to continue? Maybe some text or a button/control that becomes "enabled" - like "Next".

If some window text changes, use that in a WinWait line

WinWait("title", "text")

If a button/control that becomes "enabled", maybe

Do

Sleep(100)

Until ControlCommand("title", "text", controlID, "IsEnabled", "")

-MSP-

[pgiusti]

Hi herewasplato,

Thanks for your quick reply,

Nothing changes in the window when the application is ready. The only diference is that when I click in the OK button, the window is closed.

I tried the following script that works, but the window "pop up" in the screen every 3 seconds

$a = 1

While $a = 1

If WinExists("Links of document") Then

WinActivate("Links of document")

Send("{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}") ;find and press the ok button

Else

$a = 0

EndIf

Sleep(3000)

WEnd

[herewasplato]

...Nothing changes in the window when the application is ready...

Is the "OK button" greyed out for a while? If not then a human user would have to just keep clicking like your script does - the human would have no indication that the app was ready for interaction.

If the "OK button" greyed out for a while, then you might be able to use the

ControlCommand("title", "text", controlID, "IsEnabled", "")

line that I mentioned above.

Anyway, here is another way to do what you coded.

WinWait("Links of document")
Do
    Sleep(3000)
    WinActivate("Links of document")
    Send("{TAB 4}{ENTER}") ;find and press the ok button
Until Not WinExists("Links of document")

You might want to replace the Send line with a ControlSend or ControlClick.

[MisterBates]

Is the "OK button" greyed out for a while? If not then a human user would have to just keep clicking like your script does - the human would have no indication that the app was ready for interaction.

If the "OK button" greyed out for a while, then you might be able to use the

ControlCommand("title", "text", controlID, "IsEnabled", "")

line that I mentioned above.

Anyway, here is another way to do what you coded.

WinWait("Links of document")
Do
    Sleep(3000)
    WinActivate("Links of document")
    Send("{TAB 4}{ENTER}") ;find and press the ok button
Until Not WinExists("Links of document")

You might want to replace the Send line with a ControlSend or ControlClick.

One other thought (and one that I've been using in a recent script), is that the change can be as subtle as a change in the highlighting or border of a control (e.g. focus switches to OK button), and if there is such a change, you can test for it with Pixelchecksum, passing pixelchecksum the window coordinates or the coordinates of a single control on the window.