I have a situation where I might or might not get a dialog box. I'm not sure how to test for that. The capture had the box, so when I re-run and there is no box, it eventually times out, but I don't really want to do it that way. I'm looking for "if dialog box, then..."
Are you testing a web application or a java swing application?
during replay/execution, we simulate the dialog response before the dialog even pops up. This is due to the very modal nature of the dialog.
The dialogs in the web world are called prompts ('cause the prompt the user to do something. Not to be confused with the CLI prompts). We have an action in the web application called 'listPrompts'.
Insert this action where you want to check if a prompt occurred. The response will be empty if there are no prompts, otherwise it will give you a list of all the prompts that have appeared in that session, along with a time-stamp and what the response was (OK or cancel).
You can base your test case logic based on this response.
I don't know if it works for every dialog box, but I found that I get: true in the description:
href: javascript:logoutCheck(document.header_save, 'true', 'admin', '1')
When I describe :link=logout; if there is a save dialog, and false if there is not.
seems something specific to your webpgae/javascript.
If that works for you, then you can use that to check for dialog.
By the way if it is a file save dialog, that is an OS specific dialog and not really a web prompt. So my 'listPrompts' will not show the save dialog.
This is what it looks like. I think it is a popup, but I guess it is really a javascript popup.
Yes this is not the standard browser dialog.
It's just DHTML.
if that describing the link solution does not work for you, what you should do, is do a describe on this popup dialog or any control on that dialog.
If it is not present, then the describe step will fail raising a web-targetnotfound event. In the event handler you can deal with scenario when dialog is not there.
