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Re: Stop Resetting preferences when doing an update!!
I have never heard of another app that deletes user preferences when doing an minor dot update. In general this is considered bad practice in my understanding. If we did this to our customers they would not be happy. I rarely do the updates, only did because support asked I do so when working on another issue. Because of this rarity of doing updates my team and I forget about this odd preference that breaks all automation. If they unwilling to fix the update process to not reset the preference, then I would suggest changing the default to the more usable and common state of Off. Are there really that many people testing Windows Store Applications?95Views0likes0CommentsStop Resetting preferences when doing an update!!
I don't understand why Testcomplete still changes preferences when an update is installed. This frequently costs me valuable time since certain preferences make the program not launch. In particular the "Enable Support for Testing Windows Store Applications". This preference gets turned on every single time an update is installed. I have reported it many times over the years to support and I don't understand why it is still being done. Do Windows store applications even exist anymore? Why does TC insist on this being turned on? Why not default it to off? Having this feature turned on requires elevated privileges in order to launch TC projects from the cmd line or using task scheduler. If the feature is on all tasks will fail to launch meaning no tests are ran. The problem is caused by storing this preference data in a file in the install directory here: "C:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\TestComplete 15\x64\Bin\TestComplete.exe.manifest" This is bad practice and I am not sure why only some preferences are stored in this manifest file while the rest are stored in the correct user specific appdata location. What can be done to fix this? Thanks.186Views0likes2CommentsHow to suppress crash messages from unrelated and untested applications
On all of our Windows 11 machines we are now randomly seeing errors in our logs that msteamsupdate.exe process crashed. This seems to be a Windows 11 bug that at some point will likely be fixed on their end, but I I am looking for a solution to until that point. It is unclear to me why this is being logged given it is not an application that is being tested. I have tried changing the Process Filter settings in the Project properties to Use Only Tested Applications and also tried Ignore Selected and specified the teams update process to be ignored. Neither of these options work. Event handlers do not work in this case since the documented bug(in my opinion) that these don't handle process crashed messages(https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-Questions/Prevent-logging-an-error-when-a-process-crashes/td-p/221835). Any suggestions on how to stop logging errors for random unrelated OS processes crashing.176Views0likes1CommentRe: Documentation Search broken
Documentation search is broken again. I have seen this multiple times in the last few weeks. Is there an option to view local docs instead of the online one since it seems to be frequently broken. Tested in current builds of Edge and Chrome. The browser console reports a 404. Here is what it being displayed currently. https://wec-assets.terminus.services/ef1cccd5-8b2a-43a5-bfbc-df29304bd565/t.js net::ERR_ABORTED 40412 months agoPlace TestComplete QuestionsTestComplete Questions576Views0likes2CommentsDocumentation Search broken
The search of the website of the documentation seems to be currently broken. Search for anything returns zero doc results. Search for something common like "click" will give you zero results. Tested in Chrome and Edge. Nothing. Go here:https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/ Search "click" Get nothing. On a separate and previously reported issue, docs are still out of date and don't have any info on 15.50 update released last week at some point I believe. (This lag seems to be a common occurrence recently with updates). Is there way to locally access the docs anymore?695Views0likes8Comments- 889Views0likes1Comment