WinWait for two windows with 'or'?

[Chetwood]

Seems simple but I don't know how to make it happen. I wanna start my script if either of two certain windows is popping up. Whichever window is first is irrelevant, as soon as one of those two is there I wanna start. How do I script this with WinWait? TIA!

WinWait (( "window1") or ("window2"))

[CyberSlug]

Do

sleep(10)

Until WinActive("window1") or WinActive("window2")

Edit: WinExists is probably a better choice as SlimShady shows below.

Edited October 12, 2004 by CyberSlug

[SlimShady]

Do
   Sleep(25)
Until WinExists("window1") OR WinExists("window2")

[Chetwood]

Do
   Sleep(25)
Until WinExists("window1") OR WinExists("window2")

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice idea, however, WinExists seems to require a full title match. Problem is that the two windows I'm checking are

x% Analysing

x% Encoding

whereas 'x' is the percentage of how much is already done which is changing constantly. Depending on the speed of the machine and the material to be encoded the percentage shown may jump in unpredictable steps like 2%, 4%, 5%, 6% and may thus elude the poll interval on some fast machines.

On my slow machine I'm polling every 250 ms for '0%' and it works even though the first percentage I get to see is '2%'. Just to be on the safe side, is there any way to wait for a partial match of the tile window?

[Jos]

Nice idea, however, WinExists seems to require a full title match. Problem is that the two windows I'm checking are

x% Analysing

x% Encoding

whereas 'x'  is the percentage of how much is already done which is changing constantly. Depending on the speed of the machine and the material to be encoded the percentage shown may jump in unpredictable steps like 2%, 4%, 5%, 6% and may thus elude the poll interval on some fast machines.

On my slow machine I'm polling every 250 ms for '0%' and it works even though the first percentage I get to see is '2%'. Just to be on the safe side, is there any way to wait for a partial match of the tile window?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

ChecK out the following in the helpfile:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 1)    ;1=start, 2=subStr, 3=exact, 4=...

[JSThePatriot]

Did you try the following?

Do
   Sleep(25)
Until WinWait('yourwindow') or WinWait('yourwindow')

That shouldnt need the full title...

JS

[scriptkitty]

well why not throw mine in there too.

While 1
    If winexists("window1") or winexists("My other app") Then ExitLoop
sleep(10)   
Wend

MsgBox(1,"info","started")

[Chetwood]

Thanks to your suggestions (and Scite for Autoit) I've used this approach:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
Do
  Sleep(250)
Until WinExists("% Encoding") OR WinExists("% Analysing")

which works just fine. However, is there really no way to check a parent window's contents similar to 'WinSearchChildren'? Both windows I'm checking for are child windows to the window 'Backup DVD' which has some info that I'd need...

[the_lord_mephy]

Question:

If you did something like this

Do

Sleep(10000)

Until WinExists("MyWin")

and the window was created at the very beginning of the 10 seconds inside the loop. Would it sleep for 10 seconds before exiting the loop?

[Matt @ MPCS]

Question:

If you did something like this

Do

Sleep(10000)

Until WinExists("MyWin")

and the window was created at the very beginning of the 10 seconds inside the loop. Would it sleep for 10 seconds before exiting the loop?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It would sleep for 10 seconds before checking if the window exists, that is what the code says.

*** Matt @ MPCS

[the_lord_mephy]

k thx