Re: watch for a pop-up window

Mike Brearley wrote:
I need to write a script that will watch for a pop-up window from another application and then perform certain tasks. The only part I'm stuck on is knowing when the window has popped up. Any help pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.


Mike, use appactivate -- AS A FUNCTION. It will return
true if/when it finds your popup window.

Start by writing yourself a loop, with sleep and then
appactiveate (with the titlebar caption as its parameter).
While the popup has not yet appeared, appactivate will
be returning False. When the popup appears, then
appactivate (should) return true. When you get true
jump out of the wait loop and continue.

cheers, jw
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