WinActivate ($My program)

[steve20020]

Hi All 

I am trying to pass a variable to WinActivate and it is not working could someone please explain why this would be..

$myProgram = "notepad"

WinActivate ($myProgram)

Send ("It worked") 

Thanks in advance

[Melba23]

steve20020,

Is the title of the GUI literally "notepad"? I rather doubt it.

M23

[steve20020]

Hi Melba23

no sorry its "Untitled - Notepad"

I used AU3 to get the title and copied and pasted it..

but it still does not work  

[0xdefea7]

Check this out:

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/intro/windowsadvanced.htm

[Melba23]

steve20020,

Personally I would try to get the handle of the Notepad GUI like this:

$hNotepad_Handle = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Notepad]")

WinActivate($hNotepad_Handle)

Get the handle once and then you can use it whenever you need.

M23

[Queener]

I no longer use notepad as notepad++ is the best. You can do some changes in these. #RequireAdmin is not needed, but I always like to use that.

 
#RequireAdmin
GOHERE()

Func GOHERE()
    if WinExists("new  1 - Notepad++") Then
    sleep(500)
    WinActive("new  1 - Notepad++")
    send( "Test")
    Exit
Else
    GOTHERE()
EndIf
EndFunc

Func GOTHERE()
    Run("notepad.exe")
    sleep(500)
    WinActive("new 1 - Notepad++")
    send("test")
Exit
EndFunc

[steve20020]

Many thanks for the responses it turned out that when I switched my computer back on and tried it again it worked    (classic case of switch it off and back on again). 

M23, thank you for that I will use WinGetHandle from now on  

asianqueen,  I like the errorhandling I'm liking notepadd++ too much better, thank you