Try changing from FindChild to FindChildEx with an additional parameter for timeout (see my example above)
Sorry,
Should have mentioned that that syntax doesn't work either. :(
So, what do you get in the way of errors, if any?
Have you tried the following?
ChildObjectName = "[\"Panel\"](2)" if (Obj["WaitChild"](ChildObjectName, 10000)["Exists"])
According to the help documentation, (https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/test-objects/members/common-for-all/waitchild-method.html), that second parameter, if it's set to 0, will return immediately... even if the object is not found. By changing it to 10000, it actually sets a maximum time to wait for the object to appear. It COULD be that the object may have a delay before it "Exists" and you need to actually wait for it.
Good grief!
So as I was waiting 10000ms for the panel to be missing, it was found! Seems there's a 2nd panel(2) that exists when my first condition doesn't happen. So essentially, my code is always falling into the true section of the if statement which made me believe that the false was never being triggered.
Ugh.
Is it Friday yet? :)
This is one reason why depending upon a single property (like Name) is insufficient for object identification... there are two objects that potentially are identified as ["Panel"](2)... what makes them unique? is there a className that distinguishes them? innerText? contentText? etc...
This is why "FindChild" has arrays as the first two parameters... an array of property names and an array of property values so, again, you're not dependant upon a single property...
AND... again... this is why NameMapping works the way it does... it works on that same "Child" object principle... look for a child of the parent objects with this set of property/value pairs...
Yup... and I agree.
But going back to my original post: "I also can't reliable use a FindChild event as TestComplete does not replay 100% of the time. 
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The script will not reliably find the child control every time for me.
I have a page in my IE11 browser:
AnyPage = Sys["Browser"]("iexplore")["Page"](ProjectSuite["Variables"]["ServerURL"]+"/*");
and I need to find the textbox in our floating menu in the old UI:
AnyPage["Table"](1)["Cell"](0, 0)["Panel"](1)["Textbox"]("menuSearch")
or in the new UI:
["Panel"](2)["Nav"]("menu_root")["Panel"](0)["Textbox"]("menu_search_input")So I'm trying to write a function that checks for the existence of one and then potentially the other... without relying on a variable that says which version of the UI we're running against. (which is how my current implementation gets around this issue)
I know there are plenty of properties that change between these two textboxes. (idStr being the most important). But running the FindChild function on the two textboxes will not reliably replay in TestComplete on each of my pages.
So I was trying to go down to the root of the menu's hierarchy (table vs. panel and see if I could get it to work that way)... and I'm not having much luck that way either.
I'm open to suggestions. :)
