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joscva
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4 months ago
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Suddenly unable to find WPFObject

Today I've been building a test case for a repetitive task I needed to plow through.  Everything was fine, it was working perfectly.  Then out of the blue, for no reason at all that I can see, one of...
  • joscva's avatar
    joscva
    4 months ago

    I almost can't believe it, but I seem to have fixed this issue.  Still stumped as to why it happened in the first place, but I'll attempt to explain how I seem to have fixed it.

    So the Menu Item I'm trying to select, "Connections", is an item in our object "Menu".  But for reasons unknown, it was no longer being able to be recognized, for no obvious reason.  Point & Fix couldn't select it either.

    But I was looking through the NameMapping and noticed that everything in the menu was below a node called "Popup".  I guess this is a WPF thing?  One of our devs explained it to me recently but I only vaguely grasped it.

    Anyway, this got me thinking... so I went to remap the object "Popup" (which was not locatable nor viewable in the Object Browser) but I wasn't sure what to select from the Spy.  I decided to highlight the boundary AROUND all the menu items (which was tricky as there's only a couple of pixels that cause it to select):

     

    As SOON as I did this, everything behaved again!  The Menu TC had previously recorded now works perfectly again:

     

    "MENU|Connections|[4]"

    And my variable version that generates it dynamically, also works perfectly:

    "MENU|Connections|[" + str(Project.Variables.Counter) + "]"

    Amazing.  So, at least now if this happens again, I'll have some idea of how to fix it.  I just wish I knew what on earth happened in the first place!

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Hassan_Ballan
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4 months ago

I am trying to follow the conversation, desktop is not my specialty so I don't have a horse in this race; however, few things caught my eyes.

Note: The only difference between KeywordTest and code based scripts is viewing operations visually versus reading code, and the KeywordTest can be converted into code script.

1) Please confirm that you tried it in a new empty project. You only need to record and play back the two clicks "MENU|Connections". If it fails, wait for it to timeout (once I had to wait 20 minutes), and provide the log Details message and the Picture.

2) Based on your statement "When I try, it highlights the Connections item in red but won't select it.", when you use the Spy option "Point and fix", are you also using (Shift+Ctrl+A) to select the highlighted in red?

3) Rather than having a single operation to navigate the menu, can you attempt it in multiple operations

Aliases.Tickblaze_View.Desktop.Menu.WPFMenu.Click("MENU");
Aliases.Tickblaze_View.Desktop.Menu.WPFMenu.Click("Connections");
Aliases.Tickblaze_View.Desktop.Menu.WPFMenu.Click("New Data Connection...");

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joscva
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4 months ago

Appreciate your input.

  1. Yes, new empty project.  I'll do it again though and just walk away to see how long it takes to completely time out.  Will have to wait until I don't need to touch my machine for an extended period, so I don't know when I'll get to this.
  2. I can't use Ctrl-Shift-A as that is mapped to things in other applications, but I always change the hotkey to Ctrl-Shift-` (backtick) so the principle is the same.  I highlight it, and hit the hotkey, it then stays highlighted but nothing happens, and as soon as I click on anything else on the machine, the Spy operation ends and I'm faced with lots of "the object disconnected' messages in it.
  3. This is what I get:

    As usual, the second item cannot be clicked because it doesn't exist for some reason.

 

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    joscva
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    4 months ago

    OK I let it go for over 22 minutes just failing to find the object, before I finally killed it.  Now it's just stuck on "Stopping..." and I have my doubts that it will recover.

     

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      joscva
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      4 months ago

      It did finally recover, I walked away for about 10 minutes and it had finished when I came back.  Nothing useful in the log, just a zillion rows like this.