Issues with ShellExecute() and WinMove()

[mr-es335]

Good day,

First off, a "Happy New Year!" to all of you!!

In particular, to AndrewG, argumentum, Dan_555, ioa747 and pixelsearch!

Their fortitude and assistance was invaluable to the completion of the various projects that I have working this past year!

Anyhow, the following DOES NOT WORK...

; -----------------------------------------------
LaunchTextFile()
; -----------------------------------------------
Func LaunchTextFile()
    Local $MyTextFile0 = "C:\Testing\Info_Main.txt"
    ; -----------------------------------------------
    ShellExecute($MyTextFile0)
    ; -----------------
    ;Sleep(11)
    WinMove($MyTextFile0, "", 620, 300, 700, 900)
EndFunc   ;==>LaunchTextFile
; -----------------------------------------------

...whilst the following DOES WORK...

; -----------------------------------------------
LaunchTextFile()
; -----------------------------------------------
Func LaunchTextFile()
    Local $MyTextFile0 = "C:\Testing\Info_Main.txt"
    ; -----------------------------------------------
    ShellExecute($MyTextFile0)
    ; -----------------
    Sleep(11) ; <==== APPARENTLY THE "KEY"!!! Sleep(10) DOES NOT WORK!!
    WinMove($MyTextFile0, "", 620, 300, 700, 900)
EndFunc   ;==>LaunchTextFile
; -----------------------------------------------

The question is, "Why?"

The employment of "Sleep" is not mentioned in the HelpFile. If not...why not?

Am I doing something "WRONG"?

Edited Saturday at 04:03 AM by mr-es335

[argumentum]

10 minutes ago, mr-es335 said:

The question is, "Why?"

Because if you need to wait for a window, you'd use WinWait()
Also, ShellExecute() does not guaranty what is going to happen. The OS will decide what to do.

Do read the help file to avoid these mishaps in your code. Because you'd become familiar with what AutoIt has to offer.
So, do the katas. Otherwise you'll be asking yourself why, why, why.