Basic script help

[mtawrldpc]

Hi everyone,

I am an Autoit noob, but I had a script that was working well, and now it no longer seems to work. (I am running windows 8, so I am suspicious that an update changed the way the window titles work?   I really am stumped as to why this doesn't work anymore.)

Here is the code:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) ;1=start, 2=subStr, 3=exact, 4=advanced, -1 to -4=Nocase

While 1 ;loop indefinitely

    WinActivate("power") ;give focus to powerpoint

    Sleep(30000) ;sleep 30 seconds

    WinActivate("chrome") ;give focus to chrome

    Sleep(30000) ;sleep 30 seconds

WEnd

 

The code successfully brings powerpoint to the front, but then doesn't activate google chrome.  I also tried replacing chrome with other possible window titiles (e.g. "word" for microsoft word), and I can't seem to get Autoit to do anything beyond the frist WinActivate commnad.  I also tried creating a basic Alt Tab sript and failed at that.  

 

The purpose is to switch back and forth between a full screen weather map on Google chrome and a powerpoint that displays information/advertising for my small business. 

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks in advance!!

[Jos]

Could it be that your powerpoint is in presentationmode and has the ontop window attribute set which causes the window to be always ontop?

Jos

[mtawrldpc]

Could it be that your powerpoint is in presentationmode and has the ontop window attribute set which causes the window to be always ontop?

Jos

 

No that is not it.  It used to work with the slides in full screen presentation mode.  And I have tried to play with it to get it to work in the slide editing portion of powerpoint, and that will not work either.  I have also tried this on multiple computers, because the computer I run this on is mounted up on the wall by a 1080p TV screen to display, and I can't get the script to work, or a basic alt tab script on any of my machines.  They are all running windows 8.  But, I don't see any recent posts about windows 8 issues, so I am assuming that has not been a widespread issue?  

[Jos]

They are all running under the same credentials?

[mtawrldpc]

They are all running under the same credentials?

I am not exactly sure what you mean, but they are all different windows 8 licenses and I have different accounts set up on them.

I get this message in the bottom status window in the editor:

>"C:Program Files (x86)AutoIt3SciTE..autoit3.exe" /ErrorStdOut "C:UsersMattDesktopalt tab script.au3"

Edited December 15, 2013 by mtawrldpc

[PACaleala]

Try changing line 5 WinActivate("chrome") 

to WinActivate("Chrome") 

Good luck

[mtawrldpc]

Okay, I think windows 8 & google chrome changed the way they do the window "titles".  I had to change the parameter to the name of the specific webpage as it was listed in the tab.