WinWait waits forever

[mikehobbs]

I run an exe and then

If Not WinWait($win, 20) Then

MsgBox(...flag an error...)

Exit

EndIf

This hangs forever waiting for the window.

If I replace this script with a While Not WinExists($win) and Sleep(500) it works fine.

It would appear that WinWait just hangs if the window already exists. Surely this is not sensible?

If my observation is true, the example in the documentation would not work either.

Surely it should time out, but it definitely does not. I've instrumented every line of my script with a progress report to a log file and it definitely hangs forever waiting for the window which in fact already exists by the time the function is executed.

[LurchMan]

I run an exe and then

If Not WinWait($win, 20) Then

MsgBox(...flag an error...)

Exit

EndIf

This hangs forever waiting for the window.

If I replace this script with a While Not WinExists($win) and Sleep(500) it works fine.

It would appear that WinWait just hangs if the window already exists. Surely this is not sensible?

If my observation is true, the example in the documentation would not work either.

Surely it should time out, but it definitely does not. I've instrumented every line of my script with a progress report to a log file and it definitely hangs forever waiting for the window which in fact already exists by the time the function is executed.

Pauses execution of the script until the requested window exists.

WinWait ( "title" [, "text" [, timeout]] )

Parameters

title The title of the window to check. See Title special definition.

text [optional] The text of the window to check.

timeout [optional] Timeout in seconds

with your code you are telling the script to wait indeffinatly for a win with the title $win containing text of "20"

it should be:

WinWait($win, "", 20)

[E1M1]

I would do it like:

WinWait($win,"", 2000)

wait 2 secs

[LurchMan]

I would do it like:

WinWait($win,"", 2000)

wait 2 secs

This would be waiting for 2000 seconds...in win wait its already put in seconds