Seeking definition of 'Active' in 'WinWaitActive'

[aGorilla]

Thanks to flip209, my app is no longer sleep()ing.

But now I'm a bit confused by the solution.

I had seen WinWaitActive, and didn't think it would apply to that problem. In my eyes, the IE window was clearly 'active', it just hadn't finished loading.

That leaves me guessing that 'Active' means 'ready for user input'. Is that correct, or is it something else?

[rudi]

Hi.

That leaves me guessing that 'Active' means 'ready for user input'. Is that correct, or is it something else?

AFAIK a window is "active" as soon as it's the window with the "active title bar", with the "pressed task button" in the task bar, regardless of if it's ready to take input or not.

Let a seccond Autoit3 script run to report (GUI, label) what's the currently active window.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Rudi.

[flip209]

WinWaitActive

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Pauses execution of the script until the requested window is active.

WinWaitNotActive

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Pauses execution of the script until the requested window is not active.

Directly out of the help file....

[flip209]

Instead of winwaitactive you can use _IELoadWait

[aGorilla]

I'll repost my original problem here, for some context:

I'm navigating through an admin, I click on a link using _IEAction($link, "click") (it's a javascript link, do I have a choice?), it makes a popup window.

At first, when I tried to get the window with something like this:

$popup = WinGetHandle ( 'Upload File - Microsoft Internet Explorer' )

Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't.

I put a sleep(3000) before the WinGetHandle, and that seems to have fixed it.

@rudi:

That's what I thought, but in this case, it's definitely waiting until the page loads.

@flip209:

The docs are a bit vague about the meaning of 'active', which is why I asked.

I tried _IELoadWait, but it was working with the 'current' browser, remember, I had created a popup, and needed to wait for it before I could grab the handle, so there was no way to _IELoadWait (I think), because I didn't have a reference to that window yet.

[flip209]

#include <IE.au3>

$iesite = _IE_Example ("form")

_IELoadWait($iesite)

MsgBox(0, "Loaded", "Google on")