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saguirre
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

"Waiting for Button Object" occurs AFTER the button has already been pressed for a Java Swing app

Greetings,   I have a keyword test for a Java Swing application that is working perfectly fine. However, I am noticing behavior that I don't understand that I believe is making the execution time o...
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  • saguirre's avatar
    saguirre
    7 years ago

    OK, so SmartBear did find me a solution that worked fine. It was actually a bug in TestComplete, and they provided me with a patch that fixed the behavior. After applying the patch, TestComplete not longer "waits" for buttons it already clicked. It shaved off quite a bit of execution time from my test. The patch they gave me was not in that recent big update, but they assured me that the fix will be in a future release.

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cunderw
Community Hero
7 years ago

I have seen this exact behavior in JavaFX before, but not swing. Same type of thing, I have dialog popup that occurs and need to dismiss with the click of a button. The clickButton works and then it waits for the button after the click.

 

I worked around by caching the current time out settings, setting it to 500 then setting it back.

 

  let tempTime = Options.Run.Timeout;
  try {
    buttonOK.WaitProperty("Exist",true,5000);
    buttonOK.WaitProperty("VisibleOnScreen",true,5000);
    Options.Run.Timeout = 500;
    buttonOK.ClickButton();
  } catch(err) {
    Log.Error("There was an error with the operations. See Additional Information.", err.message + "\n" + err.stack);
  } finally {
    Options.Run.Timeout = tempTime;
  }

Hacky solution but it works.