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edtan
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7 years ago

Sys.Refresh() prevents Window object from being recognised as VCLObject

Hi,   The Delphi application I am testing starts with this flow: Splash screen -> login screen -> main window.   The main window is represented as a Window object in the object browser and ...
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    tristaanogre
    7 years ago

    In re-reading your post, you're using the "Find" method and using the "Name" property of the object to find what you're looking for.

    Name is not a recommended property to use, to be honest. A better way would be to examine the object and pick a set of properties that uniquely identify it.  You can then pass them as arrays to the find object.

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edtan
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Thanks for the reply.

 

I'm looking at bypassing using Find methods to bypass NameMapping/Aliases so the tests can adapt to changes in the app with minimal changes (as the app is still under development).

 

Follow up to your answers:

1) I was originally running with debug info agent enabled. However I tried disabling it and saw no difference in the time it took to recognise the VCLObject.

2) Yes, the object is there - but it is recognised as a Window object rather than a VCLObject.

 

I've also tried using FindEx, but setting Refresh = true causes the Window object to never be recognised as a VCLObject (same effect as using Sys.Refresh() or Refresh = true on the Find method).

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
7 years ago

In re-reading your post, you're using the "Find" method and using the "Name" property of the object to find what you're looking for.

Name is not a recommended property to use, to be honest. A better way would be to examine the object and pick a set of properties that uniquely identify it.  You can then pass them as arrays to the find object.

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    edtan
    New Contributor
    7 years ago

    Thanks, this seemed to work:

    I changed Find("Name", "VCLObject(foo)") to Find(["ObjectType", "ObjectIdentifier"], ["VCLObject", "foo"]) and it now works.