Hi,
I'm new to this and have been looking this board for several hours but I'm having problems with a name-less window.
THis is the situation: I want to automate the export of data to a textfile. After giving some information (in a Window with title "Formatted Export"), I press the "Export..." button. This brings up a second window with the title "Export file" where I specify the filename, filetype, location. I press the OK button and the "Export file" window closes (The "Formatted Export" window stays open) and a new window will open with no title but with a progressbar, cancel button and a label which initially says "Exporting the data" and changes to "Creating file..." when the export is completed. After the file is created, the name-less window closes and the "Formatted Export" window becomes active.At that point, the script needs to resume to do a new export with different data.
But I don't know how to wait for this nameless window to close. I tried to use WaitWindowOpen>Formatted Export but this doesn't work. The script won't wait for the progress window to finish.
Any help is much appreciated.
waiting for a name-less window to close
Moderators: Dorian (MJT support), JRL
Does this work:
WaitWindowClosed>Export File
WaitWindowOpen>
i.e. null string at the end.
Or:
WaitWindowClosed>Export File
WaitWindowChanged>0
This will wait for the foreground window to change after the Export File window has closed. So we don't care what it is called, we just wait for a new window. Some experimentation may be required but something along those lines should help.
Another way is to wait for a pixel color or rectangle to change (WaitPixelColor, WaitRectChanged) or if the window is a different size use a loop with GetActiveWindow in it waiting for the X,Y values to change.
Or set WIN_USEHANDLE to 1 and use a GetActiveWindow function in a loop waiting for the window handle to change. May need to do it twice if there is a delay between each window and the desktop or app's main window is briefly the active window between them.
Or use FindWindowWithText looking for a piece of detectable text that only appears on the new window. This may work if there is a unique bit of text that is detectable on the new window.
There are likely to be other solutions. I'm sure others will chip in with ideas I may have missed, but hopefully this gives you some ideas to experiment with.
WaitWindowClosed>Export File
WaitWindowOpen>
i.e. null string at the end.
Or:
WaitWindowClosed>Export File
WaitWindowChanged>0
This will wait for the foreground window to change after the Export File window has closed. So we don't care what it is called, we just wait for a new window. Some experimentation may be required but something along those lines should help.
Another way is to wait for a pixel color or rectangle to change (WaitPixelColor, WaitRectChanged) or if the window is a different size use a loop with GetActiveWindow in it waiting for the X,Y values to change.
Or set WIN_USEHANDLE to 1 and use a GetActiveWindow function in a loop waiting for the window handle to change. May need to do it twice if there is a delay between each window and the desktop or app's main window is briefly the active window between them.
Or use FindWindowWithText looking for a piece of detectable text that only appears on the new window. This may work if there is a unique bit of text that is detectable on the new window.
There are likely to be other solutions. I'm sure others will chip in with ideas I may have missed, but hopefully this gives you some ideas to experiment with.
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