WinWaitActive VS WinActivate

[programit]

In my code I'm doing a lot of things like:

$r = WinWaitActive ($ShipmentOption_Title, "", 1)

If ($r == 1 And $CanelIfFound ==true) THEN

ControlClick ($ShipmentOption_Title, "", $ShipmentOption_CancelBtn) ;Click Cancel button

Trying to make my scripts run faster and with less waits I changed these functions to look like:

$r = WinActivate($ShipmentOption_Title, "")

If ($r == 1 And $CanelIfFound ==true) THEN

ControlClick ($ShipmentOption_Title, "", $ShipmentOption_CancelBtn) ;Click Cancel button

I did this in about 6 or 7 spots and then reran my tests again and compared times. I was surprised to see that the running time was increased by about 20 seconds. Can anyone explain why this happens? Is there a built in wait on the WinActivate's?

Thanks you in advance for your responses,

Programit

[herewasplato]

> Is there a built in wait on the WinActivate's?

WinWaitDelay

Alters how long a script should briefly pause after a successful window-related operation.

Time in milliseconds to pause (default=250).

try adding...

Opt("WinWaitDelay", 1)

...near the top of your code

edit: that does not explain your 20 second increase - it just answers your question

Edited October 14, 2008 by herewasplato

[Cdma1X]

Is there a built in wait on the WinActivate's?

in WinWaitActive() and WinWait() there is a flag option to wait for the window to be active.

WinWaitActive("Window", "",10) ; this will wait for 10sec if the window does not exists

[Zedna]

It should be this way:

WinActivate($ShipmentOption_Title, "")
$r = WinWaitActive ($ShipmentOption_Title, "")
If ($r == 1 And $CanelIfFound ==true) THEN 
ControlClick ($ShipmentOption_Title, "", $ShipmentOption_CancelBtn);Click Cancel button

Edited October 14, 2008 by Zedna

[programit]

It should be this way:

WinActivate($ShipmentOption_Title, "")
$r = WinWaitActive ($ShipmentOption_Title, "")
If ($r == 1 And $CanelIfFound ==true) THEN 
ControlClick ($ShipmentOption_Title, "", $ShipmentOption_CancelBtn);Click Cancel button

Is this not going to wait once for the Winactivate and once for the WinWaitActive? I am trying to remove all waits. When this code gets executed the error/window has already popped up and I just need to fly through a bunch of 'if' statements to see which error has popped up and then handle it.

[raj2734]

Is this not going to wait once for the Winactivate and once for the WinWaitActive? I am trying to remove all waits. When this code gets executed the error/window has already popped up and I just need to fly through a bunch of 'if' statements to see which error has popped up and then handle it.

Neither of them really "wait" if the window already exist. This simply tells the script to set the focus and activate that particular window. WinWaitActivate waits for that window to appear and then activates it. The time out is if for somereason that window never appears.

The reason that Zedna tells you to use both WinActivate and WinWaitActive is that it can time to activate a window. By humans perception activating a window is instantaneous however it does time a few miliseconds for a computer to complete the task. However if you script tries to do something with the window before it is active it could mess up and maybe crash/stall. So you are simply saying "activate this window, wait until it is activated, and then proceed"

Edited October 14, 2008 by raj2734

[martin]

..... WinWaitActivate waits for that window to appear and then activates it. .....

Incorrect. WinWaitACtive waits until a window becomes active. The window can exist for any length of time and if it is not active then WinWaitActive will just, well, wait.

Zedna says WimActivate so that focus is given to the window. If it does become active, ie if WinActivate succeeded, then WinWaitACtive will detect it becoming active.

[programit]

Well.. I did it the way Zedna explains and ODDLY enough, it takes about 15 seconds less time to execute. So.. I add more commands, including ones with a wait, and it executes faster. I don't really understand that, but whatever.