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conehead
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

TestComplete error about being 'transparent or out of the window bounds'.

I have a dummy test (clicking on application objects) that would run yesterday, but not today. The application has not changed. The error is 'There was an attempt to perform an action at point (84, ...
  • cunderw's avatar
    cunderw
    8 years ago

    The two parameters in your click action (84,18) refer to coordinates of the object, and it sounds like the object size has changed.

     

    In general, unless there is a specific need you should set those to -1. This will always click the center of the object regardless of the size.

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abdul
Occasional Visitor

Where can i set this value (-1)?

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
6 years ago

Note, also, setting that value is not a guarenteed solution.  It is entirely possible that the co-ordinates are correct but, because of some sort of timing situation (it takes a few seconds for a component to appear on screen), that error could be generated.  I've seen this happen when there are web components that exist but are "hidden" in an application.  They are there so TestComplete attempts to click on it, generating the error.  You may need to put additional code (WaitChild, WaitProperty, etc) in place to ensure that the application is ready for the action before the action is performed.

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    vthomeschoolmom
    Super Contributor
    6 years ago

    I was experiencing this error when not using coordinates at all. I refered to the alias in a script. I had not previously been receiving an error. It MAY have been related to updating to TC 14 though I have not done enough testing to confirm. In any event, I was able to resolve this by checking Ignore Overlapping Window in the project's playback properties. I had observed that prioir to the error, I was seing a waiting for overlapping window message in the indicator despite the fact that there was none. I don't love the solution. But it gets me by.