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micsea64
New Contributor
5 years ago

TestComplete failing to detect the overlapping window that is on the screen

I need to interact with an Overlapping Window in a Silverlight application.  Which I believe means that the window is considered a borderless window.  Test Complete is also able to detect the buttons...
Data-Driven Testing
Overlapping Windows
Silverlight
Unit Testing
User Forms
  • micsea64's avatar
    micsea64
    5 years ago

    Thanks for the suggestions!  I was able to get the necessary functionality working, unfortunately through different means then suggested.  Prior to making the post I had tried checking to ignore overlapping windows, which made the problem worse, since the window I was trying to check was an expected overlapping window.   I did not actually try to set the focus of Test Complete to the button on the page, since we had found a different solution.  However, I will keep this in mind moving forward.  

     

    What we did do to solve the problem, was to create a function within Test Complete to wait for the object to refresh through the tree. It essentially starts from the parent object, and searches for the object again in the tree, while looking for the parameters I am expecting to be True, such as Exists, or VisibleOnScreen, and it will wait a pre-defined time at maximum, until it finds the object I am trying to interact with. It seems to work everytime!   

     

    Marsha, Alex, Thank you for the suggestions!  I will definitly keep them in mind moving forward with TestComplete, and very glad to see that I had at least gotten a response from a post!  

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Marsha_R
Moderator

A couple of things to try:

 

1)  Click the "ignore overlapping window" button in the settings and see what happens

2) After you've checked for the window.exists, also check for button.exists to force TC to see it or not

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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
5 years ago

Hi,

 

I did not work with Silverlight so this is just a guess (that worked with other technologies):

instead of clicking the button try to focus it and press from keyboard.

For example, instead of

btnLogYes.Click();

try this:

btnLogYes.Focus();

btnLogYes.Keys(" "); // space between quotes to emulate the press of the Space key

// or btnLogYes.Keys("[Enter]");

 

  • sonya_m's avatar
    sonya_m
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    5 years ago

    Thank you Marsha and Alex.

     

    Hi micsea64 , which of the suggestions helped?🙂

    • micsea64's avatar
      micsea64
      New Contributor
      5 years ago

      Thanks for the suggestions!  I was able to get the necessary functionality working, unfortunately through different means then suggested.  Prior to making the post I had tried checking to ignore overlapping windows, which made the problem worse, since the window I was trying to check was an expected overlapping window.   I did not actually try to set the focus of Test Complete to the button on the page, since we had found a different solution.  However, I will keep this in mind moving forward.  

       

      What we did do to solve the problem, was to create a function within Test Complete to wait for the object to refresh through the tree. It essentially starts from the parent object, and searches for the object again in the tree, while looking for the parameters I am expecting to be True, such as Exists, or VisibleOnScreen, and it will wait a pre-defined time at maximum, until it finds the object I am trying to interact with. It seems to work everytime!   

       

      Marsha, Alex, Thank you for the suggestions!  I will definitly keep them in mind moving forward with TestComplete, and very glad to see that I had at least gotten a response from a post!  

      • sonya_m's avatar
        sonya_m
        SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
        5 years ago

        micsea64 thank you so much for posting your solution here! This is very much appreciated🙂