FindChild is taking time to get the results

Hi Tanya,



When we use in findChild

From my usage experience, any code based on Find or FindChild always will take a prohibitively long time to run. In my cases it was easily 10-15 seconds. It's not very feasable as something to rely on extensively.



I think what Tanya was suggesting is instead of trying to use Find with your known values of RowIndex 0 and ColumIndex 0, you could use a method belonging to your grid that returns cells based on the row and column, like pivotGridControl.GetCellValue if it is supported on your grid.

I'm using find and  FindChild extensively, typically specifying objecttype and a unique parameter such as id string, namePropStr



e.g.

function memberPortal_Panel_RetailerAds() { return memberPortal().findChild(new Array("ObjectType","idStr"),new Array("Panel","teamRetMem"),FIND_DEPTH) } ;



My experience has been that it does not take "too long" however, it does seem like it takes longer than it 'should' e.g. 2-3 seconds to find a login button !!



I've been wondering whether namespace mapping is faster or if there's a way to speed things up.



I do NOT use row index or column index as a find property ever.  I try to access the table and then specify the cell rather than using a find.

Curt, if it is of any help to you, the automation framework I've been working with in TestComplete gives some rough comparisons.



We have assigned a NameMapping and short Alias to about everything in our application under test, but we have some constraints we implemented against that required adding specific abstractions between our tests, the AUT, and the automation tool.



Because of those constraints we adopted, when we need to retrieve an object, sometimes we have an exact representation of the mapped Alias a test needs (like "Foo" and "Bar" for "Aliases.Foo.Bar") and sometimes we only have part of the information (like the same "Foo" and "Bar" for "Aliases.Foo.Alpha.Beta.Tau.Bar").



FindChild using the MappedName property with a wildcard (the representation of the Alias on each object) will work for either case, but as mentioned before it takes 8-15 seconds to return an object. Using "WaitAliasChild" returns my objects within a second - fast enough that we always try that approach first and failover to FindChild if unsuccessful.

Thanks Curt and Andrew for your replies.



I need to know the Top property of the xtraPivotGrid, and getCellInfo only returns the value of the cell and not the actuall object so as to get the Top value, so cannot use any of the methods.



Dont know if there is any other way?



Regards,

Savio

Can you post the object spy results for the grid?