how to wait until the textbox enable in watin

Question

i have one textbox on my page on the load event textbox is disable for 10 then its enable so how to wait for 10 sec in watin. i am try to this code

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Answer 1

Two better ways than just using a long Thread.Sleep() to wait for fields to enable due to a script or asnyc call; eg Ajax. (Note: I'd be ashamed to admit how many long Thread.Sleeps() I have in my code.)

The below are both referencing a checkbox, but the same concepts should work just fine on a textbox or other control.

1) Check the disabled attribute.

myPage.myCheckbox.WaitUntil("disabled", false.ToString())

2) Poll the field, sleeping a short amount of time at each check. I did this poll pattern as the above simple one liner above didn't work; I don't remember why as it has been quite a while.

int sleepTime = 100;
int numberOfPolls = 50;

for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++)
{
    if (myPage.myCheckbox.Enabled == false)
    {
        Thread.Sleep(100);
    }
    else
    {
        break;
    }
}