Wild Character when do Select window by name

[zeak]

Hi Steve,

Is there a character I can use when doing command select window by name.
at the moment I have to type in the very long name of a window that has 1 number in it that changes depending on what you are doing in the program.

LIVE-2017EE: EEAUS My Work Place Name Aust [AUD] > 1000 MY WORK PLACE NAME (6) - QAD Enterprise Applications

where you see the number 6, this number changes but the rest remain the same.
If I could just do something a long the line of LIVE-2017EE&*&
I'm using &*& as what I mean by wild character but you would probably use something else.

Cheers Zeak.

[Steve]

Hi zeak

I released 8.2 this morning but before I did I had a quick look at the source behind the 'select window by name' function. Basically, it's not going to be trivial to program something in to do any sort of filtering or wildcarding.

The SELECT WINDOW BY NAME is function I have added under the hood I handle by the .NET interaction.AppActivate method (docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.visualbasic.interaction.appactivate?view=net-5.0#Microsoft_VisualBasic_Interaction_AppActivate_System_String_)...and even more cheaply I wrap it around a try block.


                   Try
                       AppActivate(strValue)
                   Catch ex As Exception
                       EventArrayAdd("2|evt|Macro Action - Select Window By Name FAILED (" & strValue & ") - Window could not be found|evt|2", "warning")
                   End Try
For this to work I would need to grab all the current active windows then sort through that list for the wildcard statement.  I'll keep this one on the back burner as something to consider.

Thanks for the idea though.

Keep em coming through