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mfoster711
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8 years ago
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Check PopupMenu exists

How do I check if a popup menu exists before I try to interact with it?    The following code works as long as the PopupMenu exists. If it doesn't, I get a run time error on the second line.   Cu...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    8 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Ah, I see. Property will be of no use for you.

    What you should do in this case:

    1) Open Object Spy in TestComplete and switch it to Point-and-Fix mode;

    2) (Right-)click on the control so that the popup menu is opened;

    3) Hover popup menu with the mouse and wait until it is recognized by Object Spy;

    4) Fix the captured object in the Object Spy (Ctrl-Shift-A shortcut if I remember correctly);

    5) Copy the identification code from Object Spy into your test code, adjust and use accordingly.

     

    (It is a usual thing that popup menu is a separate standalone object that is a child of either tested application process or main window.)

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mfoster711
Regular Contributor

I tried that but it does not work either. It always says the obj does not exists it when it does exist.

 

I believe this is because the PopupMenu is not a child of CurrField, it is a property of CurrField. CurrField does not have any child objects.

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altemann
Contributor
8 years ago
if (!Object.MainMenu.Items("Menu").SubMenu.Items("Submenu").Exists) {
    Log.Warning("Object doesn't exists");
}

That's how I do it in JScript!

  • mfoster711's avatar
    mfoster711
    Regular Contributor
    8 years ago
    altemann wrote:
    if (!Object.MainMenu.Items("Menu").SubMenu.Items("Submenu").Exists) {
    Log.Warning("Object doesn't exists");
}

    That's how I do it in JScript!

    That won't work because you will get a run time error when MainMenu does not exist. 

  • Colin_McCrae's avatar
    Colin_McCrae
    Community Hero
    8 years ago

    Thats not what happens for me?

     

    I just tried it.

     

    I have a mapped object, for the sake of argumnent, we'll call it:

     

    Aliases.Part1.Part2.Part3 (not their real names, but it is 3 layers deep)

     

    If I try:

     

    x = Aliases.Part1.Part2.Part3.Exists

     

    I simply get x = False (if the object is not present .... it's not. And neither are any of the parent objects.)

     

    Of course, if it is there, I get True.

     

    But it doesn't throw an error if it's not present. As I say, just tried it multiple time with the object (and it's parents) present or not. All worked as I would expect. Nothing caused an error to be thrown. I thought this was the point of the exists property? So you can check for the presence of things without having to worry about any error capturing or anything like that? If the object does not exists, it returns False by default.

     

    I'm using C# script if that makes any difference?