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RobertDAltman
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

How do I wait for a user to perform an action?

In a Script test, how do I prompt the user to perform some action, then continue the script after the user indicates the action is complete?  For example, I need to interact with a CAPTCHA on a form,...
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  • RobertDAltman's avatar
    RobertDAltman
    Occasional Contributor
    7 years ago

    Builtin.ShowMessage doesn't seem to do what I want.  Here's my script:

     

     

    function Test1()
{
  // Launch a website in Chrome
  Browsers.Item(btChrome).Run("http://www.indigo.health/");

  // Enter some data into the fields of a "contact us" form
  Aliases.browser.pageWwwIndigoHealth.formForm.textboxEmail.SetText("rdaltman@gmail.com");
  Aliases.browser.pageWwwIndigoHealth.formForm.textboxEmail.Keys("[Tab]");
  Aliases.browser.pageWwwIndigoHealth.formForm.panel.panel.panel.textareaComment.Keys("Hi Bob. This is a test");

  // The submit button has a hidden ReCaptcha on it;
  // Tell the user to manually click the button so that the CAPTCHA magic is happy
  BuiltIn.ShowMessage("Click the button!");
  
  // Continue the script... Click on a button to go to another page
  Aliases.browser.pageWwwIndigoHealth.panel.panel.textnode.Click(120, 23);
  Aliases.browser.pageWwwIndigoHealthPatientInfoHt.Wait();
}

    Up to the point where I call ShowMessage, things proceed as expected.  It displays my web page and populates the text boxes.  But when ShowMessage executes, the web page under test loads some oddball website while the TestComplete IDE is displayed with the message box in front of it.  I can't click the button because it's no longer on the displayed web page.

     

     

    • karkadil's avatar
      karkadil
      Valued Contributor
      7 years ago

      This sounds very strange, the ShowMessage method should't interfere with browser.

      Could you please show us screenshot of the both TestComplete and Crome at the moment when message displays?

       

      Also, you can try using User Forms, but make sure you show the user form in modal view.

      • RobertDAltman's avatar
        RobertDAltman
        Occasional Contributor
        7 years ago

        I've attached a screen-grab video of the problem.  Note that when we get to the ShowMessage step:

         

        1. The browser loads a new page
        2. The TC IDE is brought to the front (that's just annoying)
        3. The message dialog is displayed

        This appears to be a Chrome issue.  If I change the 1st line to btEdge (to use the Edge browser) then the browser remains on the page.  The TC IDE still comes to the front, so I need to alt-tab to find the browser window before I can click the button in the browser window, then I need to alt-tab back to TC to dismiss the message dialog.  That's a lot of rigmarole...

         

        It seems that the while loop, with a message in the TestComplete Indicator, is a more unobtrusive way to do what I'm trying to do.  In my actual test, when I manually click on the submit button on the form, the website will redirect to different page.  I don't suppose some kind soul could post an example of a while loop that waits until the URL is a specified value?