f00 = wingetactive()
pause(`DEBUG PAUSE`, strCat(`fDir = `, f00)) ;***DEBUG LINE***
if strindexnc(f00, 'powerdesk', 1, @fwdscan)
fDir = filepath(itemextract(1, strtrim(itemextract(2, f00, '>')), '['))
else
fDir = f00
endif
This is a menu item from "FileMenu for all filetypes.mnw" which was failing, so I added the pause line to debug it. f00 it turns out is "Processing...". So I tried a loop:
while f00=='Processing...'
f00 = wingetactive()
endwhile
Which I had to Ctrl-Break to get out of.
Suggestions fixes much appreciated. I'm on Win7x64 and I was running my favorite file manager Directory Opus so I switched to Explorer, just in case, but I had the same error. I use wingetactive in popmenu for the same folder but there is no problem with it.
What is your intent with this code? Generally the FileMenu tools is intended to work a specific file. When you right click on a file in the file explorer the active window would be the File Explorer itself?
Are you maybe looking for the last active window? Maybe give this a try: http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/tsleft.web+WinBatch/Window~Manipulation+How~to~get~a~previously~active~window.txt
Unfortunately, the 2nd window was not "Directory Opus" but a Toolbar window. So I exported the code to a script and called it from FileMenu which didn't work, still the "Processing..." error. Next I tried running the script from FileMenu and it worked as expected.
Now that I think about it I should never have tried the call, a called script is essentially inline code and wouldn't avoid the problem that was causing the error. Kudos!, Deana.