Pause the script until one of the windows exists?

[sfresher]

I want to pause the script until one of the windows exists. So I used the following code:

<autoit>

WinWait ("Window 1" OR "Window 2" OR "Window 3")

</auoit>

But it appears that the code doesn't work. It hangs there forever.

[Xand3r]

I want to pause the script until one of the windows exists. So I used the following code:

<autoit>

WinWait ("Window 1" OR "Window 2" OR "Window 3")

</auoit>

But it appears that the code doesn't work. It hangs there forever.

WinWaitClose
WinWaitNotActive

Cheers.

[sfresher]

WinWaitClose
WinWaitNotActive

Cheers.

Thanks! But indeed, I mean I have to wait one of the three window to be opened, or active.

[AdmiralAlkex]

I want to pause the script until one of the windows exists. So I used the following code:

<autoit>

WinWait ("Window 1" OR "Window 2" OR "Window 3")

</auoit>

But it appears that the code doesn't work. It hangs there forever.

That's not how you use Or, and you can't use WinWait for this. It should be more like

do
sleep(50)
until WinExists("Window 1") or WinExists("Window 2")

[Xand3r]

ohh sorry i'm kinda sleepy i read

until a window exits

the first time

[sfresher]

Thanks! This is exactly what I wanted to do. But one more question, what if I want to wait, but no longer than 5 minutes. How can modify the script? use a counter in a for loop?

That's not how you use Or, and you can't use WinWait for this. It should be more like

do
sleep(50)
until WinExists("Window 1") or WinExists("Window 2")

[Demonic]

While WinExists("hWnd One", "") or WinExists("hWnd Two", "") or WinExists("hWnd Three", "")




WEnd

[sfresher]

Thanks! I see this one is same is do...until. But where do I specify the time out?

While WinExists("hWnd One", "") or WinExists("hWnd Two", "") or WinExists("hWnd Three", "")




WEnd

[DW1]

Something like this:

$Timeout = 300000 ; 5 Minutes in miliseconds
$Timer = TimerInit()
While WinExists("hWnd One", "") or WinExists("hWnd Two", "") or WinExists("hWnd Three", "")
    If TimerDiff($Timer) > $Timeout Then ExitLoop
;~  ;Code goes here
WEnd