Help needed with Send-keys and While-Loop

[Enjoy]

Hello,

we want to uninstall a program without typing any key.

Therefore we try to use the following Script. It runs very good until the main uninstall dialog should be closed via sending the ENTER-key. Where is the mistake??

Another problem is that the While-Loop will never end, although the process IsUn0407.exe isn't running anymore.

How would you do this via AdlibEnable for example??

;---Our previous code ---

While 1
    Sleep(500)
        ;Commit any message for deleting not used files...
         If WinWaitActive("Freigegebene Datei") Then
                 Send("!j")
     EndIf
        ;Commit the dialog where you can see, what the uninstall-process do (e.g. where the marks will be set when this certain action was done) [I hope you know what I mean.]
     If WinActive("Programme vom Computer entfernen") Then
         Sleep(1000)
            Send("{ENTER}")
        EndIf
     If NOT ProcessExists("IsUn0407.exe") Then
        Exit
    EndIf
Wend

;---Rest of code ---

Please help us, we are trying it for the last two days...

enjoy

[sugi]

While 1
         If WinWaitActive("Freigegebene Datei") Then
                    Send("!j")
        EndIf
        If NOT ProcessExists("IsUn0407.exe") Then
        Exit
    EndIf
Wend

I removed the lines not neccessary to reproduce the problem.

I think your problem is WinWaitActive. I think you want to use WinActive.

[nobby]

You also may want to search the help file for "control". Things like controlclick allow you to click a button without having to worry about the window having the focus. I found it far better than sending keys when practical.

[Enjoy]

hello sugi,

this loop is already working. we want to send the ENTER-Key to the last Dialog of uninstallation, where check marks are.

hello nobby,

ControlClick does not work, we checked every possibilty.

Enjoy.

[sugi]

hello sugi,

this loop is already working. we want to send the ENTER-Key to the last Dialog of uninstallation, where check marks are.

hello nobby,

ControlClick does not work, we checked every possibilty.

The loop is not working or sending {ENTER} would work. WinWaitActive blocks the loop until the specified window comes up.

Besides I'm pretty sure ControlClick will work. Try the command ControlClick('Programme vom Computer entfernen', '', 'OK').

[MHz]

Hello Enjoy,

Try inserting this code below the first EndIf. The 2nd If statement may not be true when executed too early.

WinWaitActive("Programme vom Computer entfernen")

[Enjoy]

We got it:

While ProcessExists("IsUn0407.exe")
    While WinActive("Freigegebene Datei")
        If WinWaitActive("Freigegebene Datei") Then
           Sleep(500)
           Send("!j")
            EndIf
    Wend
    WinActivate("Programme vom Computer entfernen")
    If WinActive("Programme vom Computer entfernen") Then
         Sleep(5000)
            Send("{SPACE}")
        EndIf
     If NOT ProcessExists("IsUn0407.exe") Then
         MsgBox (4096,"test","Kill Script")
        Exit
    EndIf   
Wend

The point was to set Sleep(5000) before sending the SPACE, beacause the OK-Button was inactive !

Thanks for all replies !

Enjoy.

[sugi]

We got it:

While WinActive("Freigegebene Datei")
        If WinWaitActive("Freigegebene Datei") Then
           Sleep(500)
           Send("!j")
               EndIf
    Wend

There's still the same bug in it. Now you're telling AutoIt to loop while a specific window is active and then if this window is active wait until the window that's already active is active.

Your solutions (adding a While, increasing the Sleep) are only dirty workarounds for this one small bug and are likely to cause problems e.g. if a computer is slower as you thought.