Waiting for the end of a window

[yougoudai]

Hi everybody

First of all, I apologize for my English, I'm french...

I'm just looking for a simple question : I just want something happens when a specific window does not exist after, for example, 15 seconds.

In fact I have IE window that install some patches, disappears, and reappears again for some new patches... So I rally don't know how AutoIt can detect the window closed after 15 second of non-activities...

I do not have my script here, but I tried to do a infinite loop with a while,

* after a loop with "if" to test if the window exists ("WinExist"),

* if the windows exists, continue the loop

* if the windows does not exist, wait 15 seconds and test again

...

but As soon the window disappears, autoit do not wait and told me that the windows is gone, and the window reappears...

Can you please help me ?

Kind regards,

[DMEE]

First of all, your English is quite all right(if I as a dutch person can judge).

On your question: It is quite dangerous to look only for the existence of a window in these kind of cases. It would probably be more safe to first get the process ID and watch that one. If you like to go on this way, I'd better investigate the problem if you show the important parts of your script. Note that the sleep command has milliseconds as input, this can result in the described behaviour.

If the window pops-up, you can also use the winwaitactive command, where you can specify the timeout (in seconds). I hope this will help you, else please give some more information

[martin]

Hi everybody

First of all, I apologize for my English, I'm french...

I'm just looking for a simple question : I just want something happens when a specific window does not exist after, for example, 15 seconds.

In fact I have IE window that install some patches, disappears, and reappears again for some new patches... So I rally don't know how AutoIt can detect the window closed after 15 second of non-activities...

I do not have my script here, but I tried to do a infinite loop with a while,

* after a loop with "if" to test if the window exists ("WinExist"),

* if the windows exists, continue the loop

* if the windows does not exist, wait 15 seconds and test again

...

but As soon the window disappears, autoit do not wait and told me that the windows is gone, and the window reappears...

Can you please help me ?

Kind regards,

If, as DMEE says, using the title is not a problem then something like this might work.

WinWait($titlehere, 300);wait up to 5 minutes for window
;window has appeared or > 5 minutes
$tt = TimerInit()

While TimerDiff($tt) < 20000;allow 20 sec for window to come back
    If WinExists($titlehere) Then
        While WinExists($titlehere)
            Sleep(5000)
        WEnd
        $tt = TimerInit()
    EndIf
WEnd
;window has not existed for 20 seconds or never appeared in the 5 min period

[yougoudai]

Thank you very much for your answers guys, you're great ! I cannot test right now the scripts but I'll as soon I can.

I just thought too about that code :

While WinExists("titlehere")
    
    Sleep("20000")
    ContinueLoop

Wend
    
; Normally the windows should be not active after 20 seconds, so i can execute the code...


MsgBox(4096,"YEAH","Done !")

What do you think about it ?

[system24]

While WinExists("titlehere") = 1
    
    Sleep("20000")
    ContinueLoop

Wend
    
; Normally the windows should be not active after 20 seconds, so i can execute the code...


MsgBox(4096,"YEAH","Done !")

That's better.

[yougoudai]

Ok, thanks System24, but the "=1" is not optional ?

[martin]

While WinExists("titlehere") = 1
    
    Sleep("20000")
    ContinueLoop

Wend
    
; Normally the windows should be not active after 20 seconds, so i can execute the code...


MsgBox(4096,"YEAH","Done !")

That's better.

How is it better?