Waiting for the element availability & Visibility

Expected Behavior

After an action like button click, we have to wait for the next element to be loaded and available for action

Actual Behavior

When a search operation is called from a ‘Search’ button click, I give sleep(seconds) with a tentative timing to delay the next line of code execution. If the search operation is taking more than the time to give results and the sleep(seconds) exceeded, automatically the next thing happens and goes ahead to click the ‘Reset’ button

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

N/A

Short Example of Code to Demonstrate the Problem

mainPanel.child_window(auto_id='searchButton', control_type='Button').click_input()
sleep(6)
ImageGrab.grab().save("results.png")
mainPanel.child_window(auto_id='resetButton', control_type='Button').click_input()

Specifications

• Pywinauto version: 0.6.8
• Python version and bitness: 3.7.4 64 bit
• Platform and OS: Windows 10

[vasily-v-ryabov]

BTW, it could be mentioned in the docs (I mean exception-less functions). Let’s keep it open.

[vasily-v-ryabov]

@jjbright Let’s take a look at the docs chapter Waiting for Long Operations. If you don’t need exception to be raised after timeout, there are methods exists(timeout=10) and method .is_visible() that both return bool value.