Innocentus
24th June 2007 23:11 UTC

Execute program and wait for showing up
Dear Friends,

how can I execute an exe-File and pause the script then until the exe's program window is shown ?

Thank you very much!
With best regards
MfG
Inno

Innocentus
24th June 2007 23:35 UTC

Is there no way to do that?
Really no way?

Pls help!

With best regards
MfG
Inno

demiller9
24th June 2007 23:43 UTC

20 minutes and already you're begging for help??

There are a couple of solutions: the first thought is that you can have a loop with FindWindow and Sleep if it is not there yet. To FindWindow you will need the window title and should have the window class. This could fail if you're not careful if, for example, the program has another copy running, or you have another program with the same title and class (explorer window open to the folder, etc). A second solution is to wait for the process to appear (look for FindProcess in the wiki to see how to do that). Third, maybe you are simply asking how to wait for the process to appear and finish, in which case ExecWait would work.

Don

Joel
25th June 2007 01:10 UTC

My money is on ExecWait.

Afrow UK
25th June 2007 10:59 UTC

ExecWait is not the solution :)

pause the script until the exe's program window is shown

Innocentus
25th June 2007 18:33 UTC

Well, I know - it sounds rude - but could you make a primitive code example of the findwindow-loop?

Thank you very much for your help!

With best regards
MfG
Inno

Red Wine
25th June 2007 19:44 UTC

Check out BOTH following threads,

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=268418

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=268665