I am trying to click a link in a list of regions in an asp.net web application.The list of regions is too large to fit in the displayed window, so the user has to scroll down to find the correct region item to click.I noticed in the TC Object Browser that the VisibleOnScreen property was TRUE for the regions that the user can see and FALSE for those that they cannot. So...I created a loop in my test that scrolls the list of region until the correct region has the VisibleOnScreen property set to TRUE.This does not work because...I have dicovered, by writing the property value to the log, that during test execution the region item's VisibleOnScreen property is always TRUE regardless of whether or not it can be seen on the screen.Can anybody suggest why this might be?Is there some other way I can check that I have scrolled down the list far enough to display a particular entry?Thanks, Jim

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?

VisibleOnScreen property always TRUE

igork
Occasional Contributor
14 years ago
Regarding the problem that I mentioned earlier.

I've talked to the developers of the Flex app that I'm testing and found a solution.

The 'Visible' property of the control itself is true, but the container in which it resides has the visibility value of false, therefore it is not visible to the user. So this means that I have to go up the tree to find a parent node that has a 'visible' value set to false to find out if the control is visible to the user.

Like so:

Aliases.SomeFlexLabel.FlexObject.parent.parent.parent.....parent.visible

Shouldn't this be done automatically by TestComplete when accessing VisibleOnScreen property?
nevstafeva
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago
Hello! I have the same problem with VisibleOnScreen property in testing flex-application.

It has "true" value everytime when this property just exist and has "false" value just in case when object does'n have this property.

Moreover if i use watchlist for SomeObject.VisibleOnScreen i get right value (like in objectBrowser) but without type.

I use version 9.31.3889.7 and i think it's really bug.
mkarlovich
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago
I can also attest that this property does not work. I've had to resort to testing the state of other objects to find out if the object is actually visible on screen. Seems like this is related to AJAX stuff, but I'm just conjecturing about. that.
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago

Hi,

I didn't hear about issues related to the VisibleOnScreen property. I suggest that you refer with this behavior to our TestComplete Support team.
Ryan_Moran
Valued Contributor
11 years ago
Running into this issue myself. It seems to default to True and if I log the property value it shows True, but if I add a breakpoint to the line that checks the property value and inspect it shows False. I have also tried every refresh method I could find, but no luck.

Delphi application VCLClass = TCheckListBox

Child object type = TextObject via text recognition

TC Version 10.20
zaheer_akhter
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago
I am trying port my framework from TC7.5 to to TC10 . in the framework 7.5 we uses "visibleonscreen" to verify the data available

Unfortunately in TC10 on same page I get visibleonscreen= false but in TC7.5 it was true,

has anyone experirence this?
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago
Hi Zaheer,

You may need to refresh the object before accessing its properties.
Deeksha_goyal
Contributor
11 years ago
Hi All,

I am also facing the same issue in TC10, i have to click scroll to click on ceckbox which is not visible, but exists, enabled, visible, visibleonscreen all these property have same values for both visible and invisible properties. Can someone please help
- mdh
  Contributor
  10 years ago
  same issue TC10.40 -> http://community.smartbear.com/t5/Functional-Desktop-Testing/VisibleOnScreen-property-are-different-in-Object-Spy-vs-testing/td-p/95741
  
  Is this raises to customer services? and when will it be fixed ?

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