Windows Status Variable

[Champak]

I did not do a search for this because I suspect the results would be overwhelming. Anyway, is it possible in anyway to have the Windows activity as a variable. It seems the regular way doesn't work.

Ex. $WinExists = IniRead(....)

Why? Because I have an option in my app that allows the user to choose if they want certain functions to work while the window is active or while generally exists....this is pertinent and useful to this particular app.

Thanks.

[martin]

I did not do a search for this because I suspect the results would be overwhelming. Anyway, is it possible in anyway to have the Windows activity as a variable. It seems the regular way doesn't work.

Ex. $WinExists = IniRead(....)

Why? Because I have an option in my app that allows the user to choose if they want certain functions to work while the window is active or while generally exists....this is pertinent and useful to this particular app.

Thanks.

I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. If you want to find the state of a window then you can do something like

$wstate = WinGetState($gui1)
if @error = 0 then
  $wexists =  BitAnd($wstate,1) = 1
  $Wvisible =  BitAnd($wstate,2) = 2
  $wenabled = BitAnd($wstate,4) = 4
.
.
endif

[Champak]

I'm 3/4 asleep right now so I don't know if you showed me exactly what I need, so let me try to explain it a little clearer. My GUI gives someone the option of setting how it detects a certain applications window...whether it is WinActive or WinExists---this is saved in an ini file. When they run the GUI, it reads the ini file for WinExists or WinActive which should look like this:

If $winactivity("application") then
.....
EndIf

But I get some type of error saying I can't have that as a variable. Is there some other way I can do this, or is what you showed me what I need to do?....it doesn't seem like it.

Thanks

Edited January 15, 2008 by Champak

[Xandl]

Hello,

I think $winactivity("application") should be winactivity("application").

Something starting with $ will be interpreted as variable, not as function call.

ciao

Xandl

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

you can use Execute like

Execute("MsgBox('64', 'Titel', 'Text', 3)")

or tanslate the vaule and do If then else in the code.

So long,

Mega

[Champak]

@Xandl

How I have it is the right way I need it.

Xenobiologist

I don't think "Execute" will work (I've never used that before note) because the "IF" function is going to be around 15 lines, not 1.

I also have never done this "translate" you are talking about. How do I translate a variable? And why would I need to do that anyway (besides this instance here)? I thought a variable is read like the actual word or whatever was there.

[Champak]

The error I'm getting is when I execute the application after the script is compiled...so the program will work except when I call this function. the error is an AutoIt error:

L -:

Error: Error in expression

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

can you show a little example, please.

So long,

Mega

[Champak]

Hi, there is nothing major in the code, it is simply as follows:

$winactivity = "WinExists";This var is changed in the settings by the user to different detection schemes.
If $winactivity("Microsoft") Then
    MsgBox(0,1,1)
EndIf

That throws an expression error.

Thanks

[Champak]

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[Bowmore]

Hi, there is nothing major in the code, it is simply as follows:

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If $winactivity("Microsoft") Then
    MsgBox(0,1,1)
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    MsgBox(0,1,1)
EndIf

[Champak]

That's brilliant. You have to be a certified genius to post such an asinine and useless response.

[evilertoaster]

hum well still not to clear on what you're trying to do.

This will read a command from an .ini file and run whichever one is specified. The syntax will only work for things like WinActive, or WinExists which have 1 argument.

$WinStatus=IniRead(@ScriptDir&"\config.ini","Settings","WindowsState","WinActive")
$result=Execute($WinStatus&"('Microsoft')")
MsgBox(0,"Return value",$result)

Edited February 7, 2008 by evilertoaster

[Champak]

This does pretty much what I wanted. The only thing is I have to change the "IF" to look for a "1" or a "0". I never came across that "Execute" function before...at first I was wondering what the hell this code was suppose to do.

Thanks.