[1.1.4] Mac: Problems with App.focus() and App.isRunning() --- fixed end 2018

[Chris Kosieracki]

Running 1.1.4 12-14-2018 build on Mac OS Mojave 10.14.2

It appears that isRunning() is having a problem on my Mac.
When the app being tested is not running, then the isRunning() command returns False in a couple of seconds.
When the app being test is running, then the command hangs for about 16 seconds. It does eventually return True.
I think this is also causing the App.focus() command to not actually set focus to the designated app.
I did not have these problems in my scripts prior to upgrading to 1.1.4

[Chris Kosieracki (cckozie)]

App.open() is not working either.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

please paste the sample code

[Chris Kosieracki (cckozie)]

# TEST CASE 1
from time import ctime

Settings.ActionLogs=0

print('start', time.ctime())
tc = ('translationCore')
tC = App(tc)
running = tC.isRunning()
print('running', running, time.ctime())
App.focus(tc)
print('focus', running, time.ctime())

SIKULIX 1.1.4 RESULTS WHEN APP IS ALREADY RUNNING (15 seconds to execute isRunning):
('start', 'Tue Dec 18 09:32:37 2018')

('running', True, 'Tue Dec 18 09:32:52 2018')
('focus', True, 'Tue Dec 18 09:32:52 2018')

SIKULIX 1.1.3 RESULTS WHEN APP IS ALREADY RUNNING (6 seconds to execute isRunning):
('start', 'Tue Dec 18 09:37:52 2018')

('running', True, 'Tue Dec 18 09:37:58 2018')

('focus', True, 'Tue Dec 18 09:37:59 2018')

# TEST CASE 2
from time import ctime

Settings.ActionLogs=0

print('start', time.ctime())
myApp = App('Digital Color Meter')
myApp.open()
print('open',time.ctime())

running = myApp.isRunning()
print('running', running, time.ctime())

myApp.focus()
print('focus',time.ctime())

SIKULIX 1.1.4 RESULTS WHEN APP IS NOT RUNNING:
('start', 'Tue Dec 18 09:41:33 2018')

[error] App.open: not found in taskList after 0 secs (Digital Color Meter)
('open', 'Tue Dec 18 09:41:34 2018')

('running', False, 'Tue Dec 18 09:41:36 2018')

[error] App.focus failed: not running: [-1:Digital Color Meter (???)] Digital Color Meter
('focus', 'Tue Dec 18 09:41:37 2018')

SIKULIX 1.1.3 RESULTS WHEN APP IS NOT RUNNING:
('start', 'Tue Dec 18 09:39:13 2018')

('open', 'Tue Dec 18 09:39:15 2018')
('running', True, 'Tue Dec 18 09:39:15 2018')

('focus', 'Tue Dec 18 09:39:17 2018')

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

Thanks for the details - very helpful :-)

I will check.

--- # TEST CASE 2
this problem is already known:
bug 1808573

[Chris Kosieracki (cckozie)]

Just noticed that there is also a related (I assume) response problem with closeApp.

from time import ctime

print(time.ctime())
tc = ('translationCore')
closeApp(tc)
print(time.ctime())

Tue Dec 18 11:40:10 2018

Tue Dec 18 11:40:27 2018

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

The main problems with standard apps like TextEdit (not having a space in name - to be fixed) should be fixed now.

There are 3 items to identify a running app (samples for TextEdit)
 1- displayed name (that shows up in the top menu bar) = TextEdit
 2- process name (currently used to find the app) = TextEdit
 3- file name (that was used to start the app) = /Applications/TextEdit.app

So for apps like TextEdit the names are somehow homogenous.

But there are apps, that show up in-homogenous:
JetBrain's IntelliJ IDEA:
1- IntelliJ IDEA
2- idea
3- /Applications/IntelliJ IDEA CE.app

I will now trigger a build, that uses 1- (displayed name) to identify running apps, since that might be the most intuitiv identifier.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

BTW: about timing: I never saw elapsed times beyond 2 seconds for a not running app.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

... and the problem with App.focus() is fixed.