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dhundley's avatar
dhundley
Regular Contributor
10 months ago
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Wait timeout and waitproperty not working as expected

I need some help figuring out what I’m doing wrong with setting the timeout values in testcomplete. First, the only reason I’m creating the type of function below is that the WaitProperty does not do...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    10 months ago

    Hi,

     

    > Anytime I have ever used WaitProperty, it waits the ENTIRE time value that is specified in the WaitTime parameter.

     

    Can you provide a real code snippet that does not work as expected?

     

    There are questions for your CheckForExists() function but I would like to see the non-working code first.

     

rraghvani's avatar
rraghvani
Champion Level 3
10 months ago

The WaitTime is in milliseconds. If you want 30 seconds, then the last parameter should be 30000,

 

SomeObj.WaitProperty(“Visible”, true, 30000);

 

 

Play around with the following code, against the website.

 

function Test1()
{
    var page = NameMapping.Sys.Browser("chrome").Page("https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_style_visibility").Panel("container").Panel("iframecontainer").Panel("iframe").Panel("iframewrapper").Frame("iframeResult");
    var item = page.TextNode("myP");
    item.WaitProperty("Visible", false, 30000);
}

 

 

The function you have written, is based on the number of iterations, there's no delay of waiting. Which is similar to this,

function TestIt()
{
    var intSecondsWaited = 0;
    var intSecondsToDelay = 30;
    
    do
    {
        intSecondsWaited++;
        Log.Message(intSecondsWaited);
    }
    while (intSecondsWaited <= intSecondsToDelay);
}
  • dhundley's avatar
    dhundley
    Regular Contributor
    10 months ago

    my mistake about putting 30 instead of 30000. I was throwing that into the post just as an additional question to my main question. even if i put in the 30000 value, if the object becomes visible in 5 seconds it is still going to wait the full 30 seconds before execution continues. that's what i'm getting at. why does it wait the full amount even though the property value has been satisfied. 

     

    as for the other matter, i believe you are wrong to say it is simply based on the number of iterations because of the if statement in the example i provided. when it processes the If (objElement.Exists), it is supposed to wait the amount of time specified by the auto wait time out value (which I've clearly set to be 1 second (1000 milliseconds). yet it is waiting 30 seconds for each iteration. if what you were saying is true it would finish up my do loop in a flash (less than 1 second probably for all 15 iterations). I want to know why its taking so long.

     

    if i'm wrong please point out where I've gotten off. Thanks!