How to exit from an event which lasted too long while running the scripts in TestComplete?

[Cathy928]

I clicked the stop button, but it did not stop, still running. I have no way to stop it from running. The process is "Waiting until the delay between events expires."

[shankar_r · Accepted solution]

If you hit Stop button in-order to stop the playback, It will exit only after the completion of current active event/action/delay complete.

For Ex:

In  the below function, if you stop during the delay. It will stop only after the Delay completes. But this is not the cause with WaitProperty things like that

function testStop()
{
      Log.Message(Test Stop Start);
      aqUtils.Delay(10000);
      Log.Message(Test Stop End);


}

Ref: https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/running/overview.html#Stop

[Cathy928 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply.

Now I understand that it took so long due to an object locating event which lasted over 20 minutes to go out from it but still failed to locate the object.

Maybe I should ask another question: how to stop a current active event/action/delay?

Thank you.

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@shankar_r wrote:

If you hit Stop button in-order to stop the playback, It will exit only after the completion of current active event/action/delay complete.

For Ex:

In  the below function, if you stop during the delay. It will stop only after the Delay completes. But this is not the cause with WaitProperty things like that

function testStop()
{
      Log.Message(Test Stop Start);
      aqUtils.Delay(10000);
      Log.Message(Test Stop End);


}

Ref: https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/running/overview.html#Stop

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[Marsha_R · Accepted solution]

It will also be trying to write the log before it stops.  If this is a long test, it may need an extended time to finish that.

Maybe I should ask another question: how to stop a current active event/action/delay?

Do you mean is there a quicker way to do what you just did?  Not really.  Are you looking for ways to keep a search from running for a long time if the object is not there?  That's what @shankar_r was mentioning about the Wait* functions.  You can wait for an object or an object property and give it a time limit.

This link may be helpful:

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/app-objects/common-tasks/waiting-process-or-window-a...

[Cathy928]

Thanks for the answer.