VisibleOnScreen property always TRUE

I was able to work around this by checking the parent object ScreenTop + Height vs. child objects ScreenTop + Height (and making sure the child objects position was less than the parent objects position) to ensure the child object was within view.

This required a refresh to the child object AND a hard set delay of about 1.5s to account for the delay in the refresh() method as the control is being scrolled.



Hope that helps anyone else experiencing this issue.

I have similar problem. I'm testing a Flex application. I need to check if the control is visible to the user, so naturally I figured I'd check if VisibleOnScreen is true or false, but the problem is that this property is true even if the control is not visible. If I try to highlight it on screen it just highlights the empty area where the control should be. The Exists and Visible properties are also true. I have no idea how to check if the control is visible or not. Can someone please help me?

Maybe it's a bug in TestComplete?

Hi,



Call the Refresh method of objects before checking their VisibleOnScreen property value. This will update their properties with the most recent values.

Jared,



I tried REFRESH and REFRESHMAPPINGINFO but I had no luck with either.



I have now compared all of the properties of the list items when they are visible and when they are not visible and the only properties that change are TOP and SCREENTOP.

In my experience, when a link or item on a page is scrolled off screen, when I make the call to "click" on it, my web browser automatically scrolls.



Is there some reason why you need to scroll first before you call the click?  Does calling the "click" not work without the scroll call?

Robert,



I was hoping that would be true, but I found that it wasn't reliable. I ran many tests and I discovered that if I tried to click on an unseen link it would either work OK or it would cause the list pop-up window to close. I have no idea why that would be. But, I always got a "good click" if the link was actually visible.



I'm going to loop and scroll the list and check that the TOP property lies between certain values to ensure that the link is actually visible.



Cheers, Jim

Scrolling and checking the TOP property works OK, so my test does what it needs to do.

Strange about the VisibleOnScreen property though....

Hi,



This seems to be either an issue in TC, or a peculiarity of your application (for example, if it doesn't actually destroy the problematic object). First of all, I recommend installing the latest TC update (8.60).



If this doesn't help, let us know whether you observe this behavior with any other objects. Does only a single object (or a single type of objects) behave this way?

Hi,

Thanks for the reply!



I've updated to 8.6 and still have the same behavior.

The objects that behave like this are Label, RadioButton, Spinner, Shape. The LinkButton object seems to be working correctly. I can't tell for other objects, because these are only ones I could test.



When I cover the area where the object should be with some other window (e.g. TestComplete), then the VisibleOnScreen property turns to false.

>     In my experience, when a link or item on a page is scrolled off screen, when I make the call to "click" on it, my web browser automatically scrolls.



That was initially also my experience, until I needed to click a link in a scrollable box that was just scrolled off the visible box..that always gave me the  "There was an attempt to perform an action at point (50, 6) which is invisible or out of the window bounds." error. Other items further scrolled off the visible box had no problem with the Click method. I saw that the difference in behavior is related to the value of the VisibleOnScreen property. When it is False, then the item is automatically scrolled into the visible area and then clicked, but when it is wrongly True (it really is not visible on screen), then I will get this error.

My workaorund: before a click on the object, I make sure the object is scrolled into the visible box, like this:





Sub Click_MainMenuBar(MenuItem)



  'Simulates a left-button single click in a window or control as specified (relative position, shift keys).

  PropNames = Array("ObjectType","innerText")

  PropValues = Array("TextNode",MenuItem)



  Set MenuItemObj = Aliases.IEXPLORE.pageCustomerCareApplicationVersi....etc...panelTMnmenutrwpmntr.Find(PropNames, PropValues, 10, True)



  'Lets make sure MenuItem is visible on screen (scroll) before doing a Click (some items have property VisibleOnScreen = True, while they are NOT visible on screen)



  panelTMnmenutrwpmntrTop = Aliases.IEXPLORE.pageCustomerCareApplicationVersi...etc...panelTMnmenutrwpmntr.Top



  panelTMnmenutrwpmntrScrollTop = Aliases.IEXPLORE.pageCustomerCareApplicationVersi...etc...panelTMnmenutrwpmntr.scrollTop



  Aliases.IEXPLORE.pageCustomerCareApplicationVersi...etc...panelTMnmenutrwpmntr.scrollTop = panelTMnmenutrwpmntrScrollTop + MenuItemObj.Top - panelTMnmenutrwpmntrTop 



  MenuItemObj.Click



End Sub



That works for me