Need help with winwaitactive

[Jonovision77]

Hi this is my first time asking for help, I usually find a solution online but this one has stumped me. I am working with a business retail software and I have noticed a very annoying feature with the software, it doesn't matter what window or tab I am on the hidden text is almost always the same because the more tabs I visit the number of hidden text items grow, which pretty much eliminates the usefulness of the text portion of winwaitactive("title", "text"). Is there a way that I can use only the visible text in identifying a window/tab? The reason I need this to work is because I have a while loop that is intended to only activate the hotkeys on the final page of the software.

While 1

  WinWaitActive("Retail Merchant","") ;no text here because the software in open

    While WinWaitActive("Retail Merchant","visible text")

    Call("_HotKeys")

    Sleep(200)

  WEnd

  Sleep(200)

WEnd

 

Or is there any other way of identifying a page with a unique value that doesn't change upon reloading the system or software?

 

Thank you

[Realm]

WinGetHandle() will return the internal handle of a window.

Edited March 24, 2015 by Realm

[JohnOne]

Handle will change.

What makes you think you're checking hidden text of the window?

Edited March 24, 2015 by JohnOne

[Jonovision77]

Because the hot keys are active the moment the receipt page is visited, which has a hidden text value of TenderPage but it is not listed under visible text until the final receipt page is visited. This is the text I used on the second while command and the loop activates early.

[water]

Is there a way that I can use only the visible text in identifying a window/tab?

Use

Opt("WinDetectHiddenText", 0)

to specify that hidden window text can not be "seen" by the window matching functions.

[jdelaney]

What do you mean by 'tab'.

Output the AutoIT window info tool, while focused on your tab.

If it truly is a tab, you can use the _GuiCtrlTab_* functions to see which one is active, and move the correct tab as required...example:

_GUICtrlTab_GetCurSel ; returns the current tab's instance
_GUICtrlTab_GetItemText ; get the text of the return of the above call

Edited March 24, 2015 by jdelaney

[JohnOne]

While 1
    WinWaitActive("Retail Merchant", "") ;no text here because the software in open
    If StringInStr(WinGetText("Retail Merchant"), "hidden Text") Then
        Beep(800, 100)
        _HotKeys()
        Sleep(200)
    EndIf
    Sleep(200)
WEnd

Edited March 24, 2015 by JohnOne

[Jonovision77]

Final Solution that worked 100%

 

Opt("WinDetectHiddenText", 0)

 

While 1

WinWaitActive("Retail Merchant", "Receipts") ;restricted to only run at the first page with receipt in the name

If WinActive("Retail Merchant", "TenderPage") Then

Call (_HotKeys)

Sleep(100)

Else

Call (_ClearHotKeys)

Sleep(100)

EndIf

Sleep(200)

WEnd

 

Thanks Water for the very helpful bit of code, a simple command. Of course this revealed that my coding was inherently flawed and I needed to adjust it before the hot keys became disabled upon leaving the final page.

Edited March 24, 2015 by Jonovision77

[water]

Glad you got it working