Processing...

[George Vagenas]

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      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:

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      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.

[Deana]

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

[George Vagenas]

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.