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melqaisi
New Contributor
15 years ago

System can't get the value in the running mode.. but in debugging it works perfectly.

Hi everybody, I am trying to solve a problem in my test script with no hope, so I am asking for the help here :  The problem is as the following :  I have a function and this func...
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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
14 years ago
It sounds like there is a timing problem in your automation where the test is running faster than the application.  So, the Text object gets returned blank because the automation is attempting to evaluate it before it has completely loaded.



As simply a diagnostic, try adding a call to aqUtils.Delay(5000) right before your line of code and see if that helps.  If so, you might want to look into using something like WaitAliasChild or something to wait for an object to resolve before trying to retrieve the text.