How to Winwait for two windows simultaneously in AutoIt? - windows

Question

I would like to know if its possible to WinWaitActive for WindowWithThisTitle and WindowWithThatTitle at the same time. I'm executing a command and there could be a window telling me that the connection failed or a user/pass dialog coming up.
Is there another way doing it as this?
WinWaitActive("Title1", "", 5)
If(WinExists("Title1")) Then
MsgBox(0, "", "Do something")
Else
If(WinExists("Title2")) Then
MsgBox(0, "", "Do something else")
EndIf
EndIf
Because I don't want to have the timeout which could be more than 15 seconds.

Answer 1

A simpler solution might be to use a REGEX title in your WinWaitActive as defined here
You would then have something like this:
$hWnd = WinWaitActive("[REGEXPTITLE:(WindowWithThisTitle|WindowWithThatTitle)]")
If WinGetTitle($hWnd) = "WindowWithThisTitle" then
DoSomething()
Else
DoSomethingElse()
EndIf

Answer 2

How about something like this.
$stillLooking = True
While $stillLooking
$activeWindowTitle = WinGetTitle(WinActive(""))
If $activeWindowTitle == "Title1" Then
MsgBox(0, "", "Do something")
$stillLooking = False
ElseIf $activeWindowTitle == "Title2" Then
MsgBox(0, "", "Do something else")
$stillLooking = False
EndIf
sleep(5)
WEnd
Because I don't want to have the
timeout which could be more than 15
seconds.
WinWaitActive() doesn't have a timeout unless you specify one. You gave it a five second timeout but you could leave that off and it would wait forever.

Answer 3

You can use this Functions for two windows ..
; #FUNCTION# ====================================================================================================================
; Name...........: _2WinWait
; Description ...: Wait For Tow Windows .
; Syntax.........: _2WinWait ($FirstTitle,$SecondTitle,[$FirstText = "" ,[$SecondText = ""]] )
; Parameters ....: $FirstTitle - Title Of First Wondow
; $SecondTitle - Title Of Second Wondow
; $FirstText - Text Of First Wondow
; $SecondText - Text Of Second Wondow
; Return values .: Success - None
; Failure - Returns a 0 => If Your Titles Is Wrong
; Author ........: Ashalshaikh : Ahmad Alshaikh
; Remarks .......:
; Related .......:
; Link ..........;
; Example .......; No
; ===============================================================================================================================
Func _2WinWait ($FirstTitle,$SecondTitle,$FirstText = "" ,$SecondText = "" )
If $FirstTitle = "" Or $SecondTitle = "" Then
Return 0
Else
Do
Until WinExists ($FirstTitle,$FirstText) Or WinExists ($SecondTitle,$SecondText)
EndIf
EndFunc
; #FUNCTION# ====================================================================================================================
; Name...........: _2WinWait_Any
; Description ...: Wait For Tow Windows And Return Any Window Id Exists .
; Syntax.........: _2WinWait_Any ($FirstTitle,$SecondTitle,[$FirstText = "" ,[$SecondText = ""]] )
; Parameters ....: $FirstTitle - Title Of First Wondow
; $SecondTitle - Title Of Second Wondow
; $FirstText - Text Of First Wondow
; $SecondText - Text Of Second Wondow
; Return values .: Success - Number Of Window ==> 1= First Window , 2= Second Window
; Failure - Returns a 0 => If Your Titles Is Wrong
; Author ........: Ashalshaikh : Ahmad Alshaikh
; Remarks .......:
; Related .......:
; Link ..........;
; Example .......; No
; ===============================================================================================================================
Func _2WinWait_Any ($FirstTitle,$SecondTitle,$FirstText = "" ,$SecondText = "" )
If $FirstTitle = "" Or $SecondTitle = "" Then
Return 0
Else
Do
Until WinExists ($FirstTitle,$FirstText) Or WinExists ($SecondTitle,$SecondText)
If WinExists ($FirstTitle,$FirstTexit) Then
Return 1
Else
Return 2
EndIf
EndIf
EndFunc
for more with examples

Answer 4

I'm fairly new to autoit and the programming world in general and I had this same dilemma. Luckily I figured out a straight fwd way to do it:
Do
$var1 = 0
If WinGetState("Document Reference","") Then
$var1 = 1
ElseIf WinGetState("Customer Search","") Then
$var1 = 1
EndIf
Until $var1 = 1
So it'll stay in the loop until it finds the window and sets $var1 to 1. There's probably easier ways (I'm sure developers are gasping at this) but this is straight fwd enough for me.

Answer 5

You can create an infinite while loop with if statements in there:
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
Example()
Func Example()
While 1
; Test if the window exists and display the results.
If WinExists("Windows Security") Then
Local $hWnd = WinWaitActive("Windows Security", "", 2000)
ControlSetText($hWnd, "", "[CLASS:Edit; INSTANCE:1]", "hel233")
ControlClick("Windows Security","","[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:2]")
Sleep(5000)
EndIf
; Test if the window exists and display the results.
If WinExists("Spread the Word") Then
'The line below will wait until the window is active, but we don't need that
'Local $hWnd = WinWaitActive("Spread the Word", "", 2000)
WinClose("Spread the Word")
Sleep(5000)
EndIf
wend
EndFunc