I would use FindChild off the TestComplete process and see if you can locate the window.
Evaluate window/dialog? You mean when debugging, you want to detect that code is executed through the Evaluate dialog in TestComplete?
I'm not sure there's an easy built-in way to do so. I'm not sure doing an "existance" of the dialog is the best idea... TestComplete is typically excluded from most object identification... it's kind of bootstrappy/circular reference to have TestComplete check for existance of itself... I suppose you could do it that way.
Could you give an example of a function that you would call from the evaluate dialog?
Well, here is the example.
I set a breakpoint and let the script run to it. Then, I use the evaluate Dialog to Show variable values. In case my variable is an object variable, doing so will automatically execute any of the object's functions and properties having no Parameters to Show their results.
If I put an Assertion into such a function/property to prevent it from being run under unexpected conditions, this Assertion will fire. And if I decided to stop the test in case of this firing Assertion, the test will be terminated, just because I used the evaluate window. :-(
What I want to do now is to detect - Evaluation window yes or no - and if yes - let my Assertion not terminate the test but maybe just log a message.
Unfortunately, as mentioned, there's nothing specific in TestComplete that will prevent any code assertions to be skipped due to debugging activities using the Evaluate dialog. You can try detecting if the dialog is present but, as mentioned, I'm not sure how well that will work.
Have you tried using a Watch list item instead of the evaluate dialog? That acts a bit differently on things, I think. I'm assuming the object is a custom object you wrote in code and not an onscreen object.
What code language are you using? If you're using JScript or JavaScript, you can detect whether parameters were used in calling methods and determine, from that, if you should trigger the assertions.
I'm using vbScript.
Yes, it is about objects created by my scripts, not onscreen-objects.
No, with watch expressions, it is all the same.
I'll try to detect the evaluate window. How can I do this? Using an alias? Or is there another way?
has anybody got an example of using the FindWindow API?
