From: John Johnson <johnatl@...>
Date: 2006-05-06T02:21:27+09:00
Subject: Re: win32ole - wait for action to complete

You could use WinBatch http://winbatch.com for this.
You could even call it from Ruby, if need be.

Regards,
   JJ

On 05-May-2006, at 11:30, Rich Hall wrote:

> I have a script driving a proprietary Powerbuilder application via
> sendkeys. I am trying to time application processing time. My approach
> was grab start time, sendkeys to application, grab finish time and
> calculate the diff. However, my four seperate timing steps all print
> thier complete timestamps before the application is even done 
> processing
> one step. In Marcus Tettmar's MacroScheduler he has a WaitReady 
> function
> that seems to do a good job waiting for the driven event to complete
> before continuing execution. I assumed this was making a call to an OLE
> function, but have not been able to find such a function. Is there a 
> way
> to make my automation script behave in a synchronous fashion so that I
> can use it to get accurate timing? Is there a win32ole function for
> this? Or is Macroscheduler using its own function to provide this?
>
> I would imagine such a routine could be created using win32event, but I
> am very new to Ruby and have no idea where to start to build such a
> thing. Would appreciate any input you can provide to set me in the 
> right
> direction.
>
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>
>

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