How to wait for an object to exist without an arbitrary delay?

BTW, any article you read that just says "Use an arbitrary delay" is either a) wrong or b) misread. Arbitrary delays won't work 100% of the time.  What if your application under test decided to have a bad day and wait longer than that fixed number?  You'll still fail.

Note that, in my second example I am using the aqUtils.Delay method, but it's not the same... I'm not waiting for a fixed 500 milliseconds...I'm basically building a method similar to the WaitNNN methods but for situations where I can't use one of those and have to use the FindChild. FindChild doesn't have a delay property so I use the aqUtils.Delay method to simulate that.  At minimum, using that function, it will return almost immediately... but if it doesn't you'll only have to wait increments of half a second.