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Thanks everyone for your time and knowledge. The questions are answered.

I find the cause and I am looking for a solution. WinWaitActive is a asynchronis event. It spawn a process in the background for "timeout" seconds while user can type dos>command. I was hoping that WinWaitActive can "wait" and hold the dos> for accepting other command. -Y

@Universalist, I need a solution, not a work around:) #17 captured how the script was executed. The problem was stated in a very simple way in this thread. What you asked was asked/answered in the thread's previous message. -Y

Story: Problem 1: the WinWait wont' wait for the notepad (When there is no notepad window, the script exit to DOS promptly) I tried to WinWait an non-existing window and hoping the script will "wait". But the script exists to DOS right away Problem 2: To debug, I used ConsoleWrite to print STDOUT. But nothing get printed to STDOUT. Both WinWait and ConsoleWrite are simple comands and they don't work for me. I am asking for help here. Thanks again -Y

Note1: w is an Administrator c:_TAF>whoami w c:_TAF>cat e2.au3 Local $var = "Test" ConsoleWrite("var=" & $var & @CRLF) c:_TAF>"c:Program Files (x86)AutoIt3AutoIt3.exe" e2.au3 c:_TAF> Note 2: nothing get printed.

Something is *wrong* on that script. The script just "exit" to Dos prompt. Nothing happened. When I get home I tried this sample using (v3.3.8.1). Nothing is printed to stdout. Local $var = "Test" ConsoleWrite("var=" & $var & @CRLF) Thank everyone for your time and attention. I am stuck on this:(. Problem 1: ConsoleWrite doesn't work. Problem 2: WinWait exitd when the window doesn't exist. If anyone has a wild guess, please share it with me. (They happended on 2 PC at work and one PC at home) -Y

Something is very wrong. This following script won't print anything, no matter if there is a notepad indtance. Local $sString = "running autoIt" ConsoleWrite($sString & @CRLF) $hwnd = WinWait("[CLASS:NotepadNotExist]") Consolewrite($hwnd & @crlf) $hwnd = WinWait("[CLASS:Notepad]") Consolewrite($hwnd & @crlf)

Thanks for the answer. Here are the commands that I have tried on 2 PCs (v3.3.10.2). I am expecting the code will wait forever. But6 is is not happening. Confused -Y Example() Func Example() ;WinWait("[CLASS:NotepadNotExist]", "", 10) WinWait("[CLASS:NotepadNotExist]") EndFunc ;==>Example

The following code has the Run("notepad.exe") commented. I expect the code will wait till I manually start notepad. But the scprit exits without waiting (this is *NOT* expected). If I start a notepad and run the script, the script works fine. I have spent hours on it without success. Please help! -Y -------------------------------- autoIt example doesn't work for me------------------------------ Example() Func Example() ; Run Notepad ;Run("notepad.exe") ; Wait 10 seconds for the Notepad window to appear. WinWait("[CLASS:Notepad]", "", 10000) ; Wait for 2 seconds to display the Notepad window. Sleep(2000) ; Close the Notepad window using the classname of Notepad. WinClose("[CLASS:Notepad]") EndFunc ;==>Example