Help with WinWaitActive Please

[Patrick_Dayna]

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WinWaitActive, Confirm Save As,, 3           
if ErrorLevel
  {
      MsgBox, Win Not exists
      return
  }
else 
MsgBox, Win exist
Return

It will not activate the small confirm save as box
In the code snippet above. MsgBox, Win Not exists always triggers
Thank you!

[gregster]

So, it always times out. The question is: what happens before this line?
One thing is clear, once this line gets reached, it times out after three seconds and code execution continues. What's the code above it?

How do you make sure that it doesn't get reached while you are still working (manually) in the Save dialog...? Or, do you also automate that?
What happens if you remove the timeout? Does it wait for that window?

It will not activate the small confirm save as box

I see nothing in your code that would do that.
But doesn't it activate automatically, once it appears?
(There is a commented out WinActivate, Save As line (not Confirm Save As) in your picture - wrong wintitle? wrong title match mode? What's the intention?)

[Patrick_Dayna]

So, it always times out. The question is: what happens before this line?

It will not activate the small confirm save as box

I see nothing in your code that would do that.
But doesn't it activate automatically, once it appears?
(There is a commented out WinActivate, Save As line (not Confirm Save As) in your picture - wrong wintitle? wrong title match mode? What's the intention?)

Oh, that was the window I was primarily programing for(The save as... Dialog). I later on realised I would encounter use cases where I msgbox would pop up asking if I wanted to overwrite a file. So I copied what I had already written and tried to repurpose it for the overwrite dialog.

I rethought my design and no longer need to do this as I have found better means, thanks allot Gregster!