issues with WinWaitActive

[Clay]

I am encountering some issues when using WinWaitActive, if anyone knows what I am doing wrong or know's why it is not working for me please do share.

So this is a snippet of my code

$window, .... the Header in the dialog

case 5 
   If Not WinWaitActive($window, "License Agreement", 120) Then 
      write_log($LOG_INFO, $gateway_name & " Install", "Entering the License Agreement dialog....")
      write_log($LOG_INFO, $gateway_name & " ERROR", "License Agreement dialog action failure")
      _Exit("License Agreement", $err_log) 
      $b_loop = false
      ExitLoop
   Else;determine whether this is a msi or legacy install package
      if (ControlCommand($window, "License Agreement", "&Next >", "IsVisible") = 1) Then
      $b_msi = true
      write_log($LOG_INFO, $gateway_name & " Install", "Detected a MSI installation package")
      if (ControlCommand($window, "License Agreement", "Button2", "IsChecked", "") = 0) Then
     write_log($LOG_WARNING, $gateway_name & " Install", "License agreement does not default to not accept the license agreement", $err_log)
   EndIf
  
etc...

even if the the expected window does not show up the script does not execute the desired code in the If Not WinWaitActive block of code, it just completely ignores it...

I also tried writing the result of Winwaitactive to a variable and then tried executing the code in the block if Var = 0 but that didn't work either ...

Any suggestions?

Edited August 26, 2008 by Clay

[enaiman]

What I can think of is: your $window is not really the handle to your app.

How did you get this variable? What does it represent? a handle? a title?

If it is a title and if it is a long one, you might want to shorten the title and try again.

[herewasplato]

Simplify your testing

case 5 
    MsgBox(0, "case", "5")
    If Not WinWaitActive($window, "License Agreement", 120) Then MsgBox(0, "WWA", "timed out")