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RUDOLF_BOTHMA
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5 years ago
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Setting Keypressing Delay from Script

 Morning all,   Quick question this morning.   I'm trying to enforce a minimum key pressing delay in my projects because I just find that too often, the key pressing delay is zero, which caus...
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    AlexKaras
    5 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Two options that I can think of:

    a) Set the Project Options > Project|Playback|Runtime|Key pressing delay parameter for the required value (this is a per-project setting);

    b) Use [P<delay>] value for keypresses (e.g.: button.Keys("2[P500]0[P500]2[P500]0") )

     

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RUDOLF_BOTHMA
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What are those failures? Do they happen for every data entry or just for some certain controls?

They aren't specific to any controls.  Generally they happen when some control just loads a bit slower due to using a different dataset in one of the grids on the page etc.  With DevExpress in Webforms, typing too quickly sometimes breaks combobox lookups, which is why that must be .Keys() with keypressed delay > 0.  We create add-on software.  That means we are quite dependent on how the original software fires and handles events.  Sometimes it just fails for reasons outside of our control. /shrug

 

Emulate user who is pasting data from the clipboard

Ooh.  I had never even thought of that possibility in standard testing, not just in the context of this topic.  Thanks

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AlexKaras
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5 years ago

> Generally they happen when some control just loads a bit slower

Somewhere in time when I also had to deal with web controls that were populated with data via a set of Ajax calls, I ended up with the approach to wait until the number of records (list items, table rows, etc.) for the given control stops to change and only then continue to work with the control.