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ezzmonem
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6 years ago

Regions.Compare with Masks

I am using Regions.Compare method in an If condition for branching between two different scenarios based on the displayed window. I don't use Check because it takes a longer time to process and generates a log error that terminates the script. Is there any way to include masks while using Compare? or is there any other way to compare a region as a branching condition (not as a region checkpoint) and still be able to use masks?

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  • ezzmonem's avatar
    ezzmonem
    New Contributor
    6 years ago

    daniel_dewinter

     

    Thank you for your help!

    PictureObject.Compare worked fine with masks.

    I implemented it this way:


    var appRegion = Regions.CreateRegionInfo(    AObject, 0, 0, width, height, false);

    var baselinePicture= Regions.GetPicture("baseline_1");
    var baselineMask= Regions.GetPicture("baseline_1_Mask");

     

    if(baselinePicture.Compare(appRegion .Picture(), false, 0, false, 0, baselineMask)){

    ....

    }

     

  • daniel_dewinter's avatar
    daniel_dewinter
    Contributor
    6 years ago

    Hi, ezzmonem 

     

    Is it an option to use the Picture.Compare method?

    Picture.Compare allows a mask to be used

     

    https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/picture/compare.html

     

    In my scripts I use a combination of the picture.compare and region.compare method

    ===========================

    if (!pic_1.Compare(pic_2, ............., maskImg))
    {

     

    Regions.Compare(pic_1, pic_2)


    }

    ===========================

    Regards,

    Daniel

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    6 years ago

    Well,first of all, I don't like having "Stop on error" set to true... I like to have more granular control over when my automation stops.  So, if turn that off, then Regions.Check would work for you.

     

    You could go the route of Picture.Compare (https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/picture/compare.html?q=Picture.compare)

     

    It's a bit different than Region compare... you wouldn't have a stored region in the system, you'd be using an external picture file loaded in.  I use this freqently and does pretty well.