I'm guessing that the reason for the slowness is the "not found" aspect. There's atimeout for searching for objects and you may be hitting that time out. If the code snippet you posted is not returning an object, than it's entirely the case that the XPath may have changed. You might need to rework that code. I'm guessing that the problem is in Chrome or how Chrom is rendering the web page, not necessarily in TestComplete.
tristaanogre Yes..Object search timed out (in 20 seconds), and returning 'undefined' object. I've checked the xpath which seems to be absolutely correct. I can't think of any other reason why this is behaving like that.
Thank you
Al2
Thank you tristaanogre for your help.
Hi Al2! It looks like you've managed to identify the probable cause of the slowness together with tristanogre here. Were you able to find a way to make it work faster? Please let us know you need more advice from the Community regarding this situation.
sonya_m Not yet. I had to debug the same program which had been working consistently well for last 3 years.
The xpath is available on the page but the FindChildByXpath keeps returning 'null'. I see that I have a little scope for experimenting because TC would work better with it's native functions. There's a reason why I wanted to use xpath here because TC name mappings doesn't work in every situation esp. angualr custom controls.
Thank you
Al2
