Where did Application go?

[Skarlso]

Hi!

I'm trying to find out, what Application was converted into...

could you post please some example on... How to get Application.sleep... and Application.SendKeys(), and Application.ErrorAsException = false... And such?

Thanks,
Gergely.

Edit:

To be clear.. I have a method that waits for a string to appear in a given control. This looks like this:

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public bool WaitforStringToAppear(Control control, string toBeFound, string window, int maxTimeToWait) 
		{
			
			
			Application.ErrorAsException = false;
			bool found = false;
			
			form = Application.FindFormTitle(window, SearchMatchMode.MatchRegExp, true, 10000);
			form.Focus();			
			
			System.DateTime start = System.DateTime.Now;
			
			// While the start time + maxTimeToWait is bigger then the 
			// current time, the process shell sleep.
			while (!found && start.AddMilliseconds(maxTimeToWait) > DateTime.Now)
			{
				Element child = control.Element.FindChildValue(toBeFound, SearchMatchMode.MatchRegExp);
				if ( child != null )
				{
					found = true;
				} 
				else
				{
					Application.Sleep(1);
				}
			}
			
			Application.ErrorAsException = true;
			return found;
		}	

Now i have no idea how this should look like under 2.0 :S

And also i have a waitforcontroltoappear..

[Support Team]

There is no Application Class or similar in Ranorex 2.0.

Instead App.Sleep() you can use:
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);

For SendKeys:
Ranorex.Keyboard.Press()

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public static bool WaitforStringToAppear(Element elem, string searchString, int maxTimeToWait)
{
		
           
    	System.DateTime timeToWait = System.DateTime.Now.AddMilliseconds(maxTimeToWait);
        bool found = false;
           
        while(timeToWait > System.DateTime.Now)
        {
          	string elemText = elem.GetAttributeValue("Text").ToString();
           	if(elemText.Equals(searchString.ToString()))
           	{
           		found = true;
           		break;
           	}
           		
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);
        }
    		
        return found;
}

There is no Application.ErrorAsException functionality in Ranorex 2.0 yet.
But if you want to search for something over a period e.g. look if button exists and click it, u can catch the exception in the while loop like:

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private static void TryingClickButtonFinish(Ranorex.Button buttonFinish)
        {

            while (buttonFinish == null)
            {
                try
                {
                    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
                    buttonFinish = SetupRepository.FormRanorex_20_Setup.ButtonFinish;
                    break;
                }
                catch
                {
                    continue;
                }
            }
            buttonFinish.Click();
            return
        }

Regards,
Christian
Ranorex Support Team

[Skarlso]

Thanks Christian!

[Skarlso]

Mmm... Btw... What is SetupRepository and finishbutton20 ?

Aaannd... I don't really know but, you are searching in an Elemenent for a value like Text. But i give a Control as parameter because my Element is a Static Text for which i'm waiting to appear. So i don't have the Element when i'm calling this function. I have only the control in which the element will appear with the text toBeFound..

[Support Team]

In Ranorex 2.0 there is an even simpler way of waiting for objects to appear. Image there's a static text you are waiting for having an RxPath of "pathToMyText" (you get the RxPath using RanorexSpy). Then you can search for this text specifying a timeout (e.g. 5000 milliseconds) like that:

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Form form = "pathToMyApplication";
Text elem = form.FindSingle<Text>("pathToMyText", 5000);

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Support Team

[Skarlso]

Wow :O I will definitely look into this! And as i see this it works with just everything even controls, because they are on xpath too... This looks very promising!

Thanks Alex!!

Regards,
Gergely.