window recognizeing

Bilde · Post by **Bilde** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 3:22 pm

hi there!
Is it possible to recognize a window without the title or koordinates?
If it is... how?

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 3:39 pm

Hi,

Not sure what you mean? What do you actually want to do? Without a name the window would be pretty difficult to 'recognise' or distinguish.

If you just want to wait for the active window to change that is easily achieved with a loop and GetActiveWindow, or the new WaitWindowChanged command.

Bilde · Post by **Bilde** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 4:52 pm

I'm using the setfocus command, to make sure i'm sending some commands to a IE window.
But sometime when the site loads, the title of the window change to "page not found", and I get the message "could'nt setfocus on 'window'" and the macro stops... Is it possible to ignore that warning?, or is there a smarter method?

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 6:49 pm

Use:

SetFocus>Internet Explorer*

Internet Explorer may change it's title, but it always has the words 'Internet Explorer' in it.

See the help explanation for the wildcard.

Bilde · Post by **Bilde** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 8:11 pm

hey that was a cool idea! I should have figured that out...
Thanks a lot!

hmm... but what if theres coming a popup window. It may not function properly then...
Any idea to that?

Bilde · Post by **Bilde** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 9:41 pm

i have figured it out now:
i'm using the command "ifwindowopen" to get rid of unwanted windows

Ernest · Post by **Ernest** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 9:46 pm

Hi,
if a popup appears the IEWindow should loose the focus (it's title bar color will change).
With a periodical check [GetPixelColor] you should be able to track that.

and/or

with [GetActiveWindow] you'll (hopefully) get the popup title, which you'll use to [CloseWindow] ...

Sample:

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Label>ActiveWindowCheck
GetPixelColor>X,Y,IETitleBarColor
//8388608 = darkblue title bar - windows standard scheme
If>IETitleBarColor<>8388608, LetsCheckTheWindow
Wait>3
Goto>ActiveWindowCheck

and/or

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Label>LetsCheckTheWindow
GetActiveWindow>window_title,X,Y
If>window_title<>TheTitleYouExpect, LetsCloseAWindow
Goto>LetsCheckTheWindow

Label>LetsCloseAWindow
CloseWindow>window_title

Just an idea ...

Ciao
Ernest

Bilde · Post by **Bilde** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 10:46 pm

Hi Ernest!
I get the point, and it's a very usefull couple of commands...

Thanks a lot for all ya' help