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Petewilson's avatar
Petewilson
Contributor
6 years ago

Menu not selected as TC reports as not visible on screen, but i'm looking right at it.

Bit of an unusual one here and i'm very confused.   The below code is run and searches for and selects the menu item detailed. The code is used several times in a loop to build a system, so it ...
iOS
Object Recognition
  • Petewilson's avatar
    Petewilson
    6 years ago

    Thank you both and apologies for the late feedback.

     

    I have a feeling that it is some sort of delay in the screen displaying what it is looking for although i am not sure why it is only affecting that particular menu item, since they all run the same code, just with a different param to tell it what text to search for. I have increased my delays in the script and it appears to now be fine for 15 out of 16 loops.

     

    Thank you both for the input as it gave me other avenues to look at.

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LinoTadros
Community Hero
6 years ago

I have seen that behavior before on complex 3rd party controls, which looks like that is the case here.

With complex controls like the menu you are using, the developers are using the internal collection of the object, display it on the screen, then remove the object from memory on purpose or the garbage collector removes it in Java or .NET as the UX portion of the control is not referenced again anywhere.

 

So in you case, the collection is there but the labels are not.  I know you can see the labels on the screen and that is part of the rendering the control is doing but the objects are no longer there, so the "Touch" on the label is failing.

 

These type of issues can be resolved in one of 3 ways:

1- Fire the click procedue on the Collection item itself in script

2- Low Level Procedure to click on the label on the screen which will trigger an event even though the object underneath it is not in memory

3- Use the new OCR (Artificial Intelligence) in TestComplete 12.5 and 14 to recognize the label text in the menu and fire a click command on it.

 

Hope that helps

-Lino