Possible to view/confirm a HUD (Heads Up Display)

[John Bateman]

Is there a way to get calabash to interact with a "Heads Up Display"? My application has HUDs that are displayed for about 5-10 seconds before they fade away. They give messages like "Contacting drivers..."

I have tried to interact with these via script and console, with no luck.
For example, a HUD is visible in the iOS 5.2 simulator with the text "Contacting drivers..."
at the console:
query "view marked:'Contacting drivers..."   returns false
element_exists("view marked:'Contacting drivers...'")   returns false
element_exists("view marked:'Contacting drivers\.\.\.'")  (adding backslash to escape periods) returns false

but
query "view", :text
returns one view with the text "Contacting drivers"

What do I have to do to verify the existence of this element?

Thanks.

[Krukow]

It looks like the HUD isn't very accessible - try running

label "*"

when the view is visible.

Then you should try

element_exists("view text:'Contacting drivers...'")

wait_for_elements_exist([ "view text:'Contacting drivers...'"])

[John Bateman]

I got the same false negative when using "text:" in place of "marked:" when the HUD was visible. I expected these things to be challenging.

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Sincerely,

John Bateman
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[Krukow]

If you can do 

query "view", :text 

that that gives a result

you can try element_exists("view text:'xx'") at the same time and that should be true

Otherwise something else is up here (like a timing sensitivity)

[Jani Jegoroff]

My application uses MBProgressHUD for the same purpose and I use just a simple query to detect when HUD is visible.

irb(main):005:0> query("view:'MBProgressHUD'").empty?

true

irb(main):006:0> query("view:'MBProgressHUD'").empty?

false