Help with ProcessExists()

[marko001]

Hi all.

Please can you help me with this?

The problem i have is that i always get a $processpid=ProcessExists($PIDGame) = 0 , but the $pidgame is <>0. ( i mean, the GAME IS up!)

What i want is to wait until the game spawns (become active) then continuing loop. I want to avoid to use sleep(15000), i prefer a structured solution:

while 1

bla bla bla

_launch(1)

_gameup(1)

_start(1)

bla bla bla

wend

func _launch($i)

Select

case $i=1

$tempname = StringTrimRight($s_gamepath1,4)

$tempname2 = $tempname & " /driver:" & $s_gamedriver

$PIDgame1=Run($tempname2,$s_g1folder, @SW_MAXIMIZE)

sleep(15000) (if i want it to work i need to use that! but i don't like)

_Gameup($i)

case $i=2

$tempname = StringTrimRight($s_gamepath2,4)

$tempname2 = $tempname & " /driver:" & $s_gamedriver

$PIDGame2=Run($tempname2,$s_g2folder, @SW_MAXIMIZE)

sleep(15000)

_Gameup($i)

EndSelect

EndFunc

func _gameup($k)

local $wait

$wait = 1

While $wait <>0

if $k=1 Then

$processpid=ProcessExists($PIDGame1) And i always get 0!!!

if $processpid = 0 then

$wait = $wait + 1

Else

$wait = 0

EndIf

ElseIf $k=2 Then

$processpid=ProcessExists($PIDGame2)

if $processpid = 0 then

$wait = $wait + 1

Else

$wait = 0

EndIf

EndIf

if $wait = 500 Then

$wait = 0 (only way to exit)

EndIf

WEnd

_status($k,"Game" & $k & " is up!")

EndFunc

Thanks a lot,

Marco

[redsleeves]

Have you looked at ProcessWait ?

$PIDgame1=Run($tempname2,$s_g1folder, @SW_MAXIMIZE)
ProcessWait ($tempname2,15)

[marko001]

Have you looked at ProcessWait ?

$PIDgame1=Run($tempname2,$s_g1folder, @SW_MAXIMIZE)
ProcessWait ($tempname2,15)

i tried. In fact it works but doesn't solve my problem since the game need few seconds before spawning but the

become =1 as soon as i run the game.

That means (correct me if i'm wrong) that in any case i need to give a sleep (15000) ...

Correct?

Marco

[redsleeves]

Between the time that the process is spawned and the game is ready there is a period of some time, correct?

Would you be able to wait for a specific control to appear when the game was ready?

Could you use ProcessWait until the process is created and then pause the script until a specific control or window title becomes available?

[marko001]

Between the time that the process is spawned and the game is ready there is a period of some time, correct?

Would you be able to wait for a specific control to appear when the game was ready?

Could you use ProcessWait until the process is created and then pause the script until a specific control or window title becomes available?

Yes this could help me. In fact once launched it takes around 10 secs before spawning. How can i check (and continue script) when the game window is spwned?

[redsleeves]

If you can get the title of the game window when it is ready, you could use that with WinWaitActive()

Do
Until WinExists ( "Untitled - Notepad" )

WinWaitActive("Untitled")

You could also wait until a window no longer exists with:

WinWaitNotActive("Untitled")

You may want to check out AutoItSetOption and WinWaitDelay, as well.