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luisanillo's avatar
luisanillo
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago

Focus on window not visible on screen

Hello,   I'm testing an application (delphi) and every time I press F12, I get a new window which helps me navigate in the application (note that both the application and the window are part of t...
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  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    6 years ago

    Well, I see...

     

    Ages ago I used this function (VBScript) to put on top some form. (Actually - window registered in Windows.) Hope, it might inspire you with some ideas.

    '-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sub ActivateForm(ByVal strClassName, ByVal strWindowTitle)
  Const cProcName = "ActivateForm(): "

  Dim hWnd
  Dim dwLastError

  hWnd = Win32API.FindWindow(strClassName, strWindowTitle & " [Shared]")
  If (0 = hWnd) Then
    hWnd = Win32API.FindWindow(strClassName, strWindowTitle & " [Personal]")
    If (0 = hWnd) Then
      Log.Error cProcName & "Window was not found", "Window class name: " & strClassName & _
          vbCrLf & "Window title: " & strWindowTitle
    End If
  End If
'  If (0 = Win32API.BringWindowToTop(hWnd)) Then
  If (0 = Win32API.SetWindowPos(hWnd, Win32API.HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, Win32API.SWP_NOSIZE)) Then
    dwLastError = Win32API.GetLastError()
    Log.Error cProcName & "Window was not activated.", "Window class name: " & strClassName & _
        vbCrLf & "Window title: " & strWindowTitle & vbCrLf & _
        "System error code: " & dwLastError & vbCrLf & "System error message: " & _
        Utilities.SysErrorMessage(dwLastError)
  End If
End Sub
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     

tristaanogre's avatar
tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor

windowObject.Activate where "windowObject" is your window you want to bring forward.

 

See if that helps.

luisanillo's avatar
luisanillo
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago

Sadly it does not, I have already tried Activate, SetFocus, Minimize/Maximise and no success.

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    6 years ago

    Activate should work.. that is, essentially, the command that brings a window within an application forward.  

     

    So... setting aside my TestComplete hat and putting on my QA/Tester hat...

     

    Does it always happen at the same place?

    You say you use it to navigate.  What if you navigate to that place where it fails right away rather than several times through?  Does it "fail" then, too?

     

    See... my suspicious b*****d of a brain is wondering if this isn't a problem in your AUT where some form or other is set in such a way that it is ALWAYS in front, regardless of what else is happening.

    • luisanillo's avatar
      luisanillo
      Occasional Contributor
      6 years ago

      The window is not visible and not accessible even by hand. It is some sort of weird bug, where the buffer of the number of form object in the application is capped and the window that I use to navigate is not accessible anymore. The solution would be to change it's z index in order to be higher than the actual application, and thus, it would be visible.

       

      It's quite hard to explain, I am probably doing it wrong, but hear this example.

       

      Open up Excel, and then go to File -> Open -> Browse. 

      A dialog will pop out, prompting you to choose a file to open. If you go into the opened applications icon in your taskbar, you can see Excel Icon. Hover your mouse on it and you should see a preview of Excel (not the Open file window). That is the correct behaviour.

      In my case, our application has the contrary effect. We do not see the dialog once we try to open a file and when hovering in the application icon, we see the dialog only and not the application...

       

      That's why I'm looking for a way in TestComplete to change the z order of the application displayed. It seems Windows has some API to do so, and that is where I'm currently investigating.

       

      I hope this makes the question clearer. Thanks for your concern !

      • tristaanogre's avatar
        tristaanogre
        Esteemed Contributor
        6 years ago

        OK... then my hunch was right... you found a bug in your application under test.  TestComplete did it's job... you set up an automation to test the application and uncover bugs... you found one.

         

        At this point, I'd push back to the development team as a tester and say "I found a bug, here's how you reproduce it" and then set up your automation to record the problem as a failed test so that, when they fix it, the test passes... kind of "Test Driven Development" in a way.