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sastowe
Super Contributor
13 years ago

weird intermittent overlapping windows wher TC IS the overlapping window

I don't know what causzes this. I can tell that it happens on my win 2008 server machine and maybe the win2003 server machine. It seems to happen at the start of a test item. Many of my test items start with a LoadApp that .... loads the app and a procedure that performs login.



I am looking at the log. What I see in the log is



- the name of the OverlappingWindow (because I do a Log.Message of OverlappingWindow.Name in the event).

- an Event item that says "The 'TestCompelete - <project> window was activated." Where the <rpoject anme> is the fully qualified path to my suite.

- then the actual overlapping window where you can see the window image (the tabs at the bottom of the open project window) attached,



What would be causing test complete to activate itself and start acting on itself rather than on the application under tests?



This never ever happens on the Win xp machines we run the scripts on.



Thanks for the help.

2 Replies

  • sastowe's avatar
    sastowe
    Super Contributor
    13 years ago
    Forgot to post the name of the overlapping windows. "TagInsideContainer" which may be some kind of docking control in use by TC?
  • vajindarladdad's avatar
    vajindarladdad
    Frequent Contributor
    13 years ago
    Hi Stephanie,

    I have seen few posts and issues which are Operating System specific.

    As you said, you are using  win 2008 server machine and win2003 server machine , and your tests works fine on XP.

    I think you should execute the same test on other operating systemes also and confirm.

    If this issue does occur there , that means it is an operating system specific issue.



    You should report this issue to Support team for their inputs and Experts advice.



    http://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=TestComplete



    I hope this has been of some help.