VoiceBot RSS: Delay until window active? https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=195b33ce-bca2-4f9e-98b3-df1c6323edb7 VoiceBot RSS: Delay until window active? Sat, 02 May 2026 17:17:06 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=195b33ce-bca2-4f9e-98b3-df1c6323edb7 RE: Delay until window active? https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/delay-until-window-active/?ID=195b33ce-bca2-4f9e-98b3-df1c6323edb7#2 Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:35:06 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/delay-until-window-active/?ID=195b33ce-bca2-4f9e-98b3-df1c6323edb7#2 VoiceBot If you use the script to launch the application, you can check to see if it's opened yet and wait longer if it hasn't. Here's some sample code that does that with Notepad:

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using System;
using System.Drawing;

public static class VoiceBotScript
{
    public static void Run(IntPtr windowHandle)
    {
        // Launch the application
        uint appID = BFS.Application.Start(@"C:\Windows\Notepad.exe");
        
        // Wait up to 10 seconds for it to finish launching
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
        {
            // If the window doesn't exist, wait 1 second and try again
            if (BFS.Application.GetMainWindowByAppID(appID) == null)
                BFS.General.ThreadWait(1000);
            // Otherwise, break out of the loop
            else
                break;
        }
    }
}


If you don't want to use scripting, you can just manually add a "Delay" action to the Macro and set it to something that you know will be longer than it takes for the application to open.

Hope that helps! ]]> Delay until window active? https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/delay-until-window-active/?ID=195b33ce-bca2-4f9e-98b3-df1c6323edb7 Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:13:54 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/delay-until-window-active/?ID=195b33ce-bca2-4f9e-98b3-df1c6323edb7 VoiceBot I'm new to Voicebot. I am wanting to create some macros for work productivity.
I have no experience with C code or VBS.
Is it possible to create a delay until a window becomes active?
For example if I start a program and there is a delay as the program loads, can I create a delay in my macro sequence that will wait to proceed to the next macro until the program has loaded and the window for that program is active?
Thanks! ]]>