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levi_bryant
Contributor
11 years ago
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Better way to deal with a list of WaitObjects

Sometimes I have a large list of Objects that are required to get to the object that I really need to use. Sometimes one of the objects int the list will not exist. If one of those objects does not ex...
  • TanyaYatskovska's avatar
    TanyaYatskovska
    11 years ago

    Hi Levi,


     


    The Wait methods require using the timeout parameter. Otherwise, they don't differ from the WPFObject methods.


    For example:




     if(WaitWPFObject("object1", 5000).Exists)


           Var MyObject = WPFObject("object1").WPFObject("object2").WPFObject("object3)...


     

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rgratis
Frequent Contributor
11 years ago
I often have this same issue.  It seems like Simon's suggestion in comment 3 could be altered to accept an array of object names to find.  This would be very useful in situations where you do need to wait for each child to become available or when FindAllChildren takes too long to search the object tree.