Hi,I'm using TC v12.10.602.7 with Edge browser.When I click on a button on my Application, it open a secondary pop-up window and main window gets freezed. Sometimes this window is BrowserWindow(1) with index '1' & sometimes it is BrowserWindow(0) with index '0'.It's always the front most window, so I'm not able to understand this inconsistency of index value among main window & pop-window.Attaching 4 screenshots for both situations. Did anyone face such problem ? thanks & regards,Varun

Thanks Colin, pls find my comments inline.Colin_McCrae wrote:So, you need to be able to tell two popup windows apart?[Varun]: yes, indeed Unfortunately, the VM I run TestComplete on is a Win 7 one. So I don't have Edge installed on it. I think you can install Edge on Win 7, but if you're running it on Win 10, I may well not get the same results. So I can't check for myself but .....[Varun]: Yes, I'm using Win10 indeed. Is there no obvious way of telling them apart?[Varun]: Could not get an easy way, but trying out workaround mentioned below. Obviously, IE is different. I just had a quick look at that and an authentication popup does not have it's own BrowserWindow object. There is only one of those. And the Page, BrowserWindow and Popup are all child objects of the IE process. So I guess they've changed how these are presented in Edge.[Varun]: Just checked, my application is showing separate Page, BrowserWindow for pop-up's in both IE & Edge, all being child objects of IE/Edge process. May be its application dependent then. In IE, the popup has a caption. Does the Edge version not contain something similar?[Varun]: In IE, the 'WndCaption' property is showing correct & separate values for all windows, but in Edge it's just showing 'Microsoft Edge' for all windows. May need to dig down into the child objects a little but I'd hope there was something in there you can use?[Varun]: Digging down I do see a 'UIAObject()' object with 'text' & 'value' properties having the page URL as it's value, which I'm now trying to use as the workaround check. I take it of the three "pages" in your last set of screenshots, two of those are actually popup windows?[Varun]: yes, indeed. In which case, can you not just use the "Close" method as HKosova suggested?[Varun]: No, I have to do other operations as well on those pages, like clicking buttons & keying texts The page objects are always going to be much simpler to tell apart than the BrowserWindow objects. And certainly, the three pages in your screenshot look easy enough to tell apart?[Varun]: Indeed, I tried page object too but BrowserWindow worked best for me. The complications started when I noticed the BrowserWindow index value was not persistent. Is this all because of the other issue you linked to?[Varun]: yes, indeed. So if you pass it the page, the page finds the button, but fails to click it as the position is reported incorrectly?[Varun]: yes, indeed. Any possibility you could use a hotkey instead? (ESC will usually kill a popup window ...)[Varun]: No, unfortunately, many fields on the page are not accessible by hotkey.

I like the style of response! Very easy to follow! Kudos for that. :) varun_masuraha wrote: Thanks Colin, pls find my comments inline. May need to dig down into the child objects a little but I'd hope there was something in there you can use? [Varun]: Digging down I do see a 'UIAObject()' object with 'text' & 'value' properties having the page URL as it's value, which I'm now trying to use as the workaround check. Given your other answers, I think this would be where I'd investigate further. If you have a page URL to use, you should be able to relate it directly to the page you want. Which is much easier to identify. Which would give you the link you need. Won't help much with out of position clicks on buttons, but at least it should get you in the right place to try and work with the wonky buttons! Good luck!

Hi Varun, As a possible workaround that you may try for Edge is to hide the Favorites toolbar - there was a problem with incorrect object coordinates in Edge in previous versions of TestComplete.

That index is similar to the index that comes up of there is more than one process running for a desktop application. It has to do with which process is "top" of the Z-order (again... could be wrong here).I'm assuming that you need to be able to find this pop-up browser window in order to interact with it. So long as the are generally the same window, you could do some sort of check based upon ChildCount, even use NameMapping to map them that way. One BrowserWindow has a childcount of 5, one of 16... that's a more consistent identifying factor than the process index.

You could capture ALL browser windows. Then cycle through the resulting array of objects and only keep the one with the correct child count? I'm not sure from all this which window you're actually trying to work with though? If you need to clear the popups in sequence, I suspect you're going to need another way of telling them apart (caption?) in order to isolate them in the correct order.

BrowserWindow() index value is inconsistent

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
8 years ago
That index is similar to the index that comes up of there is more than one process running for a desktop application. It has to do with which process is "top" of the Z-order (again... could be wrong here).

I'm assuming that you need to be able to find this pop-up browser window in order to interact with it. So long as the are generally the same window, you could do some sort of check based upon ChildCount, even use NameMapping to map them that way. One BrowserWindow has a childcount of 5, one of 16... that's a more consistent identifying factor than the process index.
- varun_masuraha
  Contributor
  8 years ago
  Hi Robert,
  
  Thanks for the reply.
  I too thought of using childcount check to find the required window, but in one of the situations, there is 2nd pop-window (freezing the main window 'and' 1st pop-up) who has same childcount, hence complicating the situation.
  Attaching screenshots for this situation.
  Note that we are not using NameMapping.
  
  regards,
  Varun
  - Colin_McCrae
    Community Hero
    8 years ago
    You could capture ALL browser windows. Then cycle through the resulting array of objects and only keep the one with the correct child count?
    
    I'm not sure from all this which window you're actually trying to work with though? If you need to clear the popups in sequence, I suspect you're going to need another way of telling them apart (caption?) in order to isolate them in the correct order.

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