Simple WinActivate question

[gaiaplay]

I'm having problem with my script when porting it to a new computer. The 2 lines below is the problem. It works well with my XP machine and my other Vista Machine but on my 3rd Machine which is Vista too, it does nothing at all.

WinActivate ("MyGame")

Sleep (3000)

Please let me know what is wrong with it. It is so simple but can't really make it work for my 3rd computer.

Thanks.

[TerarinK]

First off you should make sure the window is there, this can be done with WinWait here is a sample of the code:

If WinExists("My Game") Then
    If WinWait("My Game") Then WinActivate("My Game")
EndIfoÝ÷ Ø   趫¥u·­¢­¶¡jwezíì"Ú0Â+aZ)ÆzÑÚÙ^jëh×6$hApp = WinGetHandle("My Game")

If WinExists($hApp) Then
    If WinWait($hApp) Then WinActivate($hApp)
EndIf

[gaiaplay]

First off you should make sure the window is there, this can be done with WinWait here is a sample of the code:

If WinExists("My Game") Then
    If WinWait("My Game") Then WinActivate("My Game")
EndIfoÝ÷ Ø   趫¥u·­¢­¶¡jwezíì"Ú0Â+aZ)ÆzÑÚÙ^jëh×6$hApp = WinGetHandle("My Game")

If WinExists($hApp) Then
    If WinWait($hApp) Then WinActivate($hApp)
EndIf

I know the window exist and is physically there. It just would not activate it.

[bo8ster]

WinActivate will make it active it is exist.

You do have make sure the arguments for it are correct though.

[TerarinK]

Then try this on the very top of your script

$hApp = WinGetHandle("My Game")
If @error Then MsgBox(0, "Error", "Finding a windows that isn't here")

[Negative1]

WinActivate ("MyGame")

Sleep (3000)

also its always a good idea to follow up winactivate("MyGame") with winwaitactive("MyGame") you can remove you sleep(3000) if you use winwaitactive("")

-1

[bo8ster]

Also check out WinTitleMatchMode