[Gambas-user] Desktop.Find

[Stephen Bungay]

On 08/18/2011 11:44 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Hi folks! I need some help.
>>
>> Gambas 2.23
>>
>> Problem: Desktop.Find is not finding a window that is indeed appearing
>> on the desktop. I personally can see it and it has the correct title,
>> therefore it is indeed there, and hence the need for some assistance
>> trying to figure out WHY Desktop.Find can't see what I see....er.... or
>> something to that effect. Anyway....
>>
>> Instantiating a VLC instance using SHELL with the following procedure
>> (ignore the SUB's parameter list, I have the parameters to SHELL
>> hard-coded for the moment and am passing in dummy values from the
>> calling SUB)
>> '*
>> '* NOTE! mpProcessHandle is declared at the class level AS Process.
>> '*
>> PUBLIC SUB PlayVideo(pFileName AS String, pPlayerTitle AS String)
>>     DIM aHandle AS NEW Pointer[]
>>     DIM iHandle AS Integer
>>
>>     mpProcessHandle = SHELL "vlc --intf rc --video-title Camera0
>> ~/TestVideo.avi" FOR READ WRITE
>>
> You have to wait a little there (with SLEEP) because the vlc window will not
> be visible immediately just after you run the process.
>
> Regards,
>
Hi Benoit!

While I did not use SLEEP I did put a break point on the line that does 
the Desktop.Find, and allowed execution to proceed when  the window 
appeared. I'll try SLEEP in conjunction with the breakpoint just to 
test.  Will let you know.