WaitFor action - more options?

[DominikR]

Currently WaitFor only supports exists and non-exists. For web development it would be really great to have "wait for visible" and "wait for enabled" options.

Is there another way to do that?

[krstcs]

If you craft your XPaths to include the attributes you want to wait for, the Exists/NotExists works the way you are wanting.

For example, if you are wanting to wait for a button to be in the enabled state before you click it, then you can set your buttons path like this:

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OKButton -> /button[@text='OK' and @enabled='true']  (or @visible='true', etc.)

If you need different attributes for the same object, you can create multiple objects in the repo that represent the same element but with different path combinations.

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OKButton_VISIBLE -> /button[@text='OK' and @visible='true']
OKButton_ENABLED -> /button[@text='OK' and @enabled='true']
OKButton_ENABLED_AND_VISIBLE -> /button[@text='OK' and @enabled='true' and @visible='true']

Just put them under the same rooted folder/app.

Then you can wait for the button to exist, and Ranorex will try to find a button that is enabled and has text of 'OK'. Your action table would look like:

WaitFor -> Exists -> 30s -> OKButton
Mouse -> Click -> Left -> Center -> OKButton