Waiting for screeen to load-non web based

[mheck]

How would you handle the wait if the object is not within a browser but in a different applicaton?

I want to wait until the window for an application becomes availible so that QTP does not start clicking into random areas without an object there. I used a conditional and no waits, this seemed to work but i was trying to figure out different ways because this meathod seems weak and could break easily.

Thanks