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Hello everybody

Currently we disable the mouse before we start any test-case to prevent that a user-interaction disturbs our test runs.
This works perfectly.

Now we tried out Ranorex 8.0 and tested the maintenance-mode. But when the "maintenance-mode window" appears we can't interact with it, because our mouse is disabled. Furthermore, we can't abort the test-run. The only way to get our mouse back is to navigate to the task-manager with the keyboard and kill Ranorex.

The easy solution would be to not disable the mouse, but for "normal" non-maintenance-mode test runs, the disabled mouse comes in very handy.

So what we thought about was to detect if the maintenance-mode is activated before we start the test case and depending on that set the mouse automatically to enabled / disabled.

TLDR: Is there a way to get the info (code-wise) if the maintenance-mode is activated or not?

Greetings
TPeter

Hi TPeter,

That's an awesome idea. If you don't mind, I "steal" it and create a User Voice for that.
As far as I know, the product management team of Ranorex handles all feature requests using that platform
https://uservoice.ranorex.com/forums/15 ... ve-ranorex

Unfortunately I cannot answer your question about the status of this maintenance-mode, but maybe I can find something when going through the API.
If so, I'll let you know

Best,
DP

dpFourOFour wrote:That's an awesome idea.

Thank you

dpFourOFour wrote:If you don't mind, I "steal" it and create a User Voice for that.

I don't mind, go ahead

dpFourOFour wrote:Unfortunately I cannot answer your question about the status of this maintenance-mode, but maybe I can find something when going through the API. If so, I'll let you know

Cool thanks!

Greetings
TPeter

Done,

Please feel free to vote for it

https://uservoice.ranorex.com/forums/15 ... nance-mode

Best,
DP