Determining subwindow existance

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How do you programmatically determine if an exterior subwindow exists?

I've tried permutations of DoWindow, SetWindow and GetWindow with no luck. The only thing I can see is to trap for an error caused by executing a command that anticipates the existence of the subwindow... there has to be a better method than that.

Thanks,

Jeff
Hi,

You might try win recreation("",0) and parse the string for subwindow.


Andy

June 2, 2017 at 03:12 pm - Permalink

Try WinType(). For example
display;display/host=#
Print wintype("graph0#g0")
1
Print wintype("graph0#g1")
0

June 2, 2017 at 03:15 pm - Permalink

You can also use WinList with the proper options and use WhichListItem on the result to see if the window is listed.

--Jim Prouty
Software Engineer, WaveMetrics, Inc.

June 3, 2017 at 11:07 am - Permalink

Thankyou, hegedus, AG and Jim for the swift replies. They were very helpful.

WinType was what I was looking for. Thanks also for bringing WhichListItem to my attention. This will be a handy tool to have... if only I can remember it.


Jeff

June 3, 2017 at 06:07 pm - Permalink