WinWaitNotActive Timeout - Wait Forever Topic is solved

[JJohnston2]

WinWaitNotActive WinTitle, WinText, Timeout, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText

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• Timeout
  Type: Integer or Float
  How many seconds to wait before timing out and returning 0. Leave blank to allow the function to wait indefinitely.

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I use variables sometimes to denote the argument meaning in functions where either A) I tend to forget what the argument order is or B) skip some of the arguments in the function call.

For the WinWaitNotActive command, if I want to have it wait forever, the timeout has to be blank, so something like this:

• WinWaitNotActive(winTitle,,)

If I wanted to assign a variable name for a 'forever' timeout (which I would typically do for clarity and explicitness), such that the code looks something like this below, what would be assigned to that variable to make it 'blank'?

• WinWaitNotActive (winTitle,,forever:=???)

These do not work:

• WinWaitNotActive (winTitle,,forever) ; Warning: This variable appears to never be assigned a value.

• WinWaitNotActive (winTitle,,forever:=0) ; No timeout / exits immediately

• WinWaitNotActive (winTitle,,forever:=-1) ; Error: Parameter #3 of WinWaitNotActive is invalid.

• WinWaitNotActive (winTitle,,forever:="") ; Error: Parameter #3 of WinWaitNotActive requires a Number, but received an empty string.

[ntepa]

Try

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WinWaitNotActive(winTitle,,forever?)

The maybe operator (var?) can be used to pass or omit a variable depending on whether it has a value.

[JJohnston2]

Most excellent, thank you much...