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[error] Region.exists: seems that imagefile could not be found on disk

Asked by Daniel Gessler

Hello!

As shown in the topic, I got an error:
[error] Region.exists: seems that imagefile could not be found on disk
What I do is simple: I surround a block of code with try except FindFailed. Inside it I put a click(some_image) and just after this - if not exists(wait(some_new_image),5): write_sth_to_file_and_exit
Looks like that:
try:
 click(some_image)
 if not exists(wait(some_new_image),5):
  write_to_file_that_something_did_not_appear_on_the_screen_as_expected
except FindFailed:
 doSthIfFailed
Unfortunately at this moment and at next exists functions (I tried to comment the first one to see if the error will flee) I get the same error as writen above. I multi-checked my disk and I really do have the image on it. I checked its title and it's the same so there is no such thing as non-existing file on a disk.

Do you have any idea what's goin on?

Greetings,
Daniel

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Roman Podolyan (podolyan-roman) said : 		#1

What is the version you are using?
What is in raw .py code of the script?
Did you try to check if exists() works in some other simple test?

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Daniel Gessler (danioss) said : 		#2

Hello!
I just created a simple click on windows icon and checking whether the 'My documents' and other stuff are there. It says the same - [error] Region.exists: seems that imagefile could not be found on disk .

I got the newest version of Sikuli, 1.0.1.

Raw .py code of the example I just created (as said above) is this:

click("1377850187684.png")
if not exists(wait("1377850214554.png",5)):
    print "blablabla"

I checked, these two .png files are where they should be.

Oh, and one more things. Before adding this comment I decided to leave the wait function and you know what? It worked well. So the problem is wait function. Unfortunately in my project I can't get rid of it, actually I use it almost all the time... It's funny but everything worked well untill yesterday though I didn't do anything special.

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Best RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#3

--- if not exists(wait("1377850214554.png",5)):

This is not a "legal" usage:

--- exists(xxx)
... expects xxx to be some image file name

--- wait(xxx)
... returns a Match object at success, which will internally be changed to a string (what you get when you say print wait(xxx)), which definitely is not a valid image filename.

what you want to achieve, can simply be done this way:
if not exists("1377850214554.png",5):

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Daniel Gessler (danioss) said : 		#4

Thank you very much for solving the problem. My bad I already forgot return values. But on the other hand I've been using exists(wait(image,5)) since last 4 weeks (and I didn't have Sikuli 1.0.1) and it all worked fine. That calmed me down I guess and I thought there might be something else. Thank you !

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Daniel Gessler (danioss) said : 		#5

Thanks RaiMan, that solved my question.