Hello

hello, CodeApprentice!

no one here, tonight.

sorry I didn't have more for you on that bump request

Or maybe I just missed them, eh?

no problem. I just replied to your comment.

no, been a quiet night

I thought perhaps the view was already there

I can probably just call solo.waitForView() to fix everything...trying that now.

and that's why you weren't calling it

not entirely sure why I took it out...I'm pretty sure that I had it in there originally.

oh wait...you're right.

The "Add" menu button is part of the view hierarchy...it's just not visible because the CAB covers the standard action bar.

yeah, that's what I was thinking when pondering your question

so your general approach is probably fine, but you need to figure out a better "wait" algorithm

and that's where I figured Robotium's source might be useful

yah, now that I think about it more, I remember trying to do waitForView() initially and my tests were passing when they should have.

s/should/shouldn't/

I needed to fix my tests to detect a bug which I recently discovered.

and now that I fixed the bug, some of the tests are still failing even though they shouldn't

anyways...I'll dig into the Robotium source code.

hah

looks like they just do a busy loop with sleep() calls

too bad GitHub doesn't have navigation features like grepcode ;-(

is there anything else that I can help you with?

not right now.

are you leaving?

OK

not for another 10 minutes :-)

k

I'm trying waitForView() just to make sure it doesn't work...

hmmm...actually, it seems to work

or else the race condition is favoring the test thread now rather than the UI thread.

hmmm...

looks like the waitForView() algorithm may ignore invisible views

that would make sense

so, if the regular action bar buttons are invisible, waitForView() will wait until they are visible again

if I'm reading this correctly

are you looking in the searchFor() method?

yes

yah, I see a `onlyVisible` flag.

I definitely need to practice reading others' code more.

anyway, that's a wrap for today's chat

next one is Monday at 4pm US Eastern Time

have a pleasant day!

gnite