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Hiya

When we say click on a button "Calculate", the AUT is locked for about 3 minutes
During those three minutes the following happens:

- The mouse pointer flickers between normal and hour glass
- The Process.Responding method returns True sometimes

These means we can't safely base any syncronisation on the above two methods.
Is there a real safe method to know if the AUT GUI is ready to accept new keystrokes etc.

Thanks

How does a (human) user know that the application is ready for input again? Is there any UI element saying that the calculation has finished? If so, you can just wait for this element to appear by using a FindSingle call with a long timeout (> 3 minutes)!

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Support Team

Hiya

Unfortunately there are no GUI "clues" to know the operation is complete!
Ive written a function now, we set a global time-out like 10minutes, then divide that up into 5 second
blocks, then within each block each second perform the above tests, then get the over-all result for each block, if its not responsive go on to next block, until timeout!

Quite messy!

Cheers

The CPU load is another "unreliable" indicator. As far as I know, there is no (general) reliable method for knowing an application is idle, unless the application provides such functionality itself somehow

atom wrote:Unfortunately there are no GUI "clues" to know the operation is complete!

How do users know then if calculation succeeded? Seems to me like some pretty bad usability ...

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Support Team