Help Please. What is going on here?

eDad · Post by **eDad** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:42 pm

This script:

Let>WW_TIMEOUT=5
Exe>notepad.exe
WindowWaitOpen>Untitled - Notepad

immediately pops up the dialog saying Specified Window "Untitled - Notepad" Not Present

Can someone tell me why?

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:54 pm

Adding an asterisk on the end of the window name should resolve that:

WindowWaitOpen>Untitled - Notepad*

I can't tell you exactly why, but it has worked for me in a number of situations. I can only assume there are undisplayed characters at the end of the window name string.

support · Post by **support** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:59 pm

Should be :

WaitWindowOpen>Untitled - Notepad

You had written WindowWaitOpen which is not a command, and would have been interpreted as WindowAction as that uses WIN as the abbreviation.

eDad · Post by **eDad** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:35 am

Doh

I guess the fact that it executed a command is why I never even thought about a typo.

Thanks

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:52 am

Not only that but with the asterisk at the end there is no error message

Accepting any string starting with a command abbreviation as a valid command is pretty surprising behavior to anyone who has learned something like C