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cvanvlack
Occasional Contributor
11 months ago

What is the correct format for WaitWPFObject in Python?

Here is the name mapping when I use the object spy I am running the application and getting the process with  process <SPAN class="token operator">=</SPAN> TestedApps<SPAN class="token pun...
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    cvanvlack
    11 months ago

    This was SUPER helpful. Thank you very much!!

    Here is what I learned after using this example. 

    1. Basically, whatever arguments you can get to work for the WPFObject Method, you need to use the exact same arguments for the WaitWPFObject Method.

    2. I had misread the API and thought the WndCaption was optional. So I passed the ClassName, but left off the WndCaption so the function overloaded to assume I was passing in the Name.

    So when I was using 

    p = Sys.Process("VirtekIrisClient")
    o = p.WaitWPFObject("HwndSource: ShellView",timeout_ms)

    It wouldn't work. When I used

    p = Sys.Process("VirtekIrisClient")
    o = p.WaitWPFObject("HwndSource: ShellView","Virtek Iris",timeout_ms)

    It worked.

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rraghvani
Champion Level 3
11 months ago

I have no idea what process <SPAN class="token operator">... is about?

It will be something along the lines of,

Sys.Process("VirtekIrisClient").WaitWPFObject("WPFObject", "HwndSource: ShellView", 5000)

This will wait up to 5 seconds for the object "WPFObject" to appear with the caption "HwndSource: ShellView"

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    cvanvlack
    Occasional Contributor
    11 months ago

    Thanks for the response! I have absolutely no idea what happened with those code blocks as that's not what I had put there... I'll try to edit the original message to try to fix it.

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      cvanvlack
      Occasional Contributor
      11 months ago

      The code blocks keep adding that stupid span object. Here's the actual code.
      p = TestedApps.Virtek_Applications_ServerManager.Run(count, ignore_running, timeout_ms)
      o = p.WaitWPFObject('WPFObject("HwndSource: ShellView", "Virtek Iris")', timeout_ms)
      o.Exists

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        cvanvlack
        Occasional Contributor
        11 months ago

        I can confirm that


        p = TestedApps.Virtek_Applications_ServerManager.Run(count, ignore_running, timeout_ms)
        o = p.WaitWPFObject("WPFObject", "HwndSource: ShellView", timeout_ms)
        o.Exists

        Also did not work