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Snickers
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if window title contains a word

Post by Snickers » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:46 pm

Is there a command that would allow me to do the following:
[code]

GetActiveWindow>title,X,Y

If>title contains the word "Mozzilla"
//do something
else
//do something else
endif
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JRL
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Post by JRL » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:56 pm

I like to search for text using Separate>
This will be a case sensitive search.

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GetActiveWindow>title,X,Y

//If>title contains the word "Mozzilla"
Separate>%title%,Mozzilla,var
If>%var_count%>1
//do something
else
//do something else
endif

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Post by Snickers » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:07 pm

Great! This works perfectly; however, i am not understanding something.

Help file says, "Also returned is the number of elements in the list, in returnvar_count."

In the code you provided, why is the var_count returning a value of 2?


EDIT: I misspelled the word "Mozilla" above; so don't be confused if the code doesn't work for you. Correct the spelling and all is well.

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Post by JRL » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:21 pm

If you separate the window title text:
Windows Scripting, Windows Macro Automation, Windows Macro Recorder - Automate your PC for Windows 9x/NT/ME/2000/XP/Vista :: View topic - if window title contains a word - Mozilla Firefox
using Mozilla as the separator you will get two variables with the values

var_1=Windows Scripting, Windows Macro Automation, Windows Macro Recorder - Automate your PC for Windows 9x/NT/ME/2000/XP/Vista :: View topic - if window title contains a word -
var_2= Firefox

also giving you a count var_count=2

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Post by Snickers » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:31 pm

Very nice! Thank you for the code snippet and the explanation.

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Post by Bob Hansen » Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:54 pm

How about "Position" function?

GetActiveWindow>title,X,Y
Position>Mozilla,%title%,1,StartPos
If>%StartPos%>0,Do Something,Do Something Else
Hope this was helpful..................good luck,
Bob
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Post by Snickers » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:58 pm

That one is nice too, Bob. It seems to be more direct. Thank you. Those both work great!

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