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hannecroonen
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3 years ago

Object lookup is acting strange

Hi all,   I have a question regarding object lookups; I am using this in my tests since I have to check if certain windows are showing or not at the right time. To reduce my code duplication I...
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  • hannecroonen's avatar
    hannecroonen
    3 years ago

    Hi Marsha,

     

    I know how the wait functions work, I use them a lot throughout my testing framework!

    Problem is this function has maybe 200 windows that I need to check and if I would use the wait functions this would delay the program by minutes if not hours so that is not feasible...

    I do think this object lookup functionality is not what I was searching for so I went back to using switch cases instead and this works perfectly, I just tried to find a shorter way to implement this.

  • hannecroonen's avatar
    hannecroonen
    Contributor
    3 years ago

    Hi Marsha,

     

    it is not that I need all of them to show up.

    This is a function that only checks if at a certain step a certain window is shown.

    I tried to put this all in one function instead of making numerous smaller functions that all do the same but at different steps in the process.

    So for example; if the 'free costs' window should be up -> I run this function but it should only search for that window, not for all the rest in the function...

    • Marsha_R's avatar
      Marsha_R
      Moderator
      3 years ago

      Read here about the Wait functions. These are built in functions in TestComplete that already do what you are trying to create.

       

      https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/app-objects/common-tasks/waiting-process-or-window-activation.html

       

      For your 'free costs', you would use WaitWindow  then use Exists to make sure it is there when the Wait is done.  There are a lot of examples on that page so you can see how it works.

       

      try this on one of your objects and let us know what happens.

       

       

      • hannecroonen's avatar
        hannecroonen
        Contributor
        3 years ago

        Hi Marsha,

         

        I know how the wait functions work, I use them a lot throughout my testing framework!

        Problem is this function has maybe 200 windows that I need to check and if I would use the wait functions this would delay the program by minutes if not hours so that is not feasible...

        I do think this object lookup functionality is not what I was searching for so I went back to using switch cases instead and this works perfectly, I just tried to find a shorter way to implement this.