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steeld

I have a script where @winexists returns false for a window I know to be open. I have double-checked the supplied window title (the script will happily send the same keystrokes to another app if I change the supplied window title so I know the code works) but it doesn't seem to find the window title I supply.

My next debugging step is to capture the text of all the open window titles to see if my target window title contains any hidden characters or spurious text causing a mismatch. Unfortunately, I cannot readily find a VDS function that will return a list of open window titles. Can this be done in VDS?

Thanks

DavidR · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: Winlist?

Have you tried WINLIST ?
Always works for me! Check your VDS help..

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject:

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steeld · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:40 am Post subject:

Many thanks DavidR and ShinobiSoft. This has been a great help. It's obvious in the VDS Help when you know what you are looking for but if you don't, it's not that intuitive. I was expecting some kind of @windows function to give me this.

I did look at LIST but I forgot from using VDS years ago that the documentation describes the LIST command in several different places. Looking at LIST talks about CREATE, ADD, ASSIGN, FILELIST etc. - no mention of WINLIST. Looking at Using Lists shows another raft of LIST commands. WINLIST is under Data Lists - I omitted to look there. Sad

This is an area that could be tidied up in a future version - the Help is more of a reference look-up for experienced users and not necessarily a help for those coming fresh to VDS or, like me, rusty after a few years away.

Thanks again