TS crashes when using 'Highlight Element'

Hi,

I've been using Test Studio for about a year now to record automated wpf tests for our in-house platform. Process was hampered by frequent crashes/freezes on my Win 7 station. Since upgrading to a new workstation with Win 8.1 TS recording has become more stable, but now I'm haunted by a new problem.

 I use the 'Highlight Element' function frequently, but when our application opens popup windows (for instance a floating window is opened to edit a case in the system), the risk of a crash increases dramatically. And if another window becomes active (Say a confirmation/leave note box to confirm the previous Edit), 'Highlight Element' will almost certainly crash.

A developer made a mock-up of our application that reproduces this behaviour, you can see a recording of it here:

http://www.screencast.com/t/AsnveylhN

Does anyone out there have similar experiences? Any solutions?

Many thanks in advance

Jakob

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