How can I trigger on the creation of *any* window?

[MinstrelOfC]

I'm trying to run a macro on the creation of *any* window:

I currently have my trigger set up as:

!$.*$

By which I'm trying to mean:

! (on the creation of a window)
$ (regex)
.* (any number of any characters)
$ (end of window name)

This simply doesn't work....

I've also tried:

!$.

!$/d|/D

!

going into the properties, and selecting/deselecting "When Created (can be invisible)" and a couple of times "Popup" (-- even though I'm not using it for dialog messages, I figured I'd try anyway) but to no avail.

and a few things that gave errors ( like !$* - nothing to duplicate... I'm still learning... :-) )

What I've had to do now is make another macro that triggers on:

@$.*$

and after I open the window, click off of it, then re-activate it, and the macro runs fine.

I'm running Version 2.1.1 on Windows XP SP1....

Any suggestions?

[Gintaras]

Is it for all windows?

QM window triggers don't evaluate empty window names, even if regular expression is set to match empty string. Many windows, when created, still don't have a name. Some of them are still without name when window is first time activated - the point when QM triggers evaluate window name. But most windows already have name at this point.

[MinstrelOfC]

Excellent question. :-)

I was only trying it on the "Help" in Quickmacros itself (Just b/c that was a quick/easy way to make a new window) It *doesn't* work on that, but I just tried it on Excel (it worked), FireFox (it worked), Excel "Help" (it worked)...

Excellent! Thank-you!

[Guest]

I am to create a trigger for this window and cannot seem to get it to work.

I want the macro to automatically play once the QM window opens

Please Help!

[Gintaras]

Paste this in the trigger field on the toolbar:

!v"" "QM_Editor"