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Tambo
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Unable to obtain the popup menu for item during playback

Hey all, I'm currently migrating TestComplete scripts to a new environment and the .net applications are having difficulties with menu items. The log error messages are "Cannot obtain the popup menu ...
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Tambo
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

The real issue was windows scaling. I was able to get the tests to work again on the 4k monitor by changing the application compatibility properties for Override high DPI scaling behavior.

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    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    8 years ago
    That's interesting... do you, perchance, in your "Click" actions, have any values in the parameters of Click other than -1?
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      Tambo
      Occasional Contributor
      8 years ago

      Click actions are as follows:

      def Click(ClientX = -1, ClientY = -1, Shift = 0)
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        tristaanogre
        Esteemed Contributor
        8 years ago

        Wait... you defined your own click action?  Or are you trying to overload TestComplete's click action?  Neither one does the actual click... what's your actual code look like where you are clicking on the menu?  I'm assuming you recorded it so it probably has values in there that are not -1.