I would love a way to go back to the old versions of TestComplete where that object recognition hint stuff wasn't present. I have never seen this be helpful; it's only caused problems for us when...
Edit: Fixed the copy&paste error I made in the code
I experience the same as cunderw and I'm on 12.60 with ASP web pages. It hapens when I pop up a confirmation box and click OK. After it disappears, I have to wait X amount of seconds - usually very long - you don't want you tests falling over because it's the first time you get to a page and IIS still needs to compile etc. I solved it slightly differently using a function, but I agree that it appears to be an annoyance at the very least if not a bug. Not sure a feature requests though, since it would disable the object recognition in places you don't want. Code I use:
/// <summary>
/// Method for clicking confirm buttons on screen when testcomplete doesn't pick up that they have been removed from the page
/// so waits the full timeout period
/// </summary>
function ClickConfirmButton(ButtonAlias, overrideWaitInterval)
{
overrideWaitInterval = (overrideWaitInterval==null || overrideWaitInterval==undefined) ? 2000 : overrideWaitInterval;
if(!ButtonAlias.WaitProperty("Exists",true,overrideWaitInterval)) //wait to see, but don't error in case the test can be recovered'
{
Log.Warning("Timeout Expired waiting for confim button [" + ButtonAlias.MappedName + "]","",pmNormal,"",Aliases.browser.page.PagePicture());
}
var tempTimeout = Options.Run.Timeout;
Options.Run.Timeout = 1000;
ButtonAlias.Click();
Options.Run.Timeout = tempTimeout;
}