I have been having an issue where i need to automate the interaction with objects inside of a SWT_Window0. Within this Window I have a list of objects which need to be clicked and dragged to another part of the screen. I have attached a picture of the SWT_Window0.
The aim I have is to click on "Crosstab" and drag it to the right handside of the screen. The issue I have is UFT only recognises the entire window as one object and does not recognise anything inside it, Crosstab, Spreedsheet etc. And because of this I am having great difficultly getting UFT to click on the "Crosstab" label. Could anyone with more UFT experience potentially share some ideas about how to go about clicking the labels within the SWT_Window0?
I've tried a couple of different ways of trying to click any label within the SWT_Window0 but with no luck. Closest I can get is just using UFT's record which gives:
Window("Designer").WinObject("SWT_Window0").Click 64,34
But i cannot use this is I do not want to use X,Y coordinates in my test as they are not reliable
"Window("Designer").WinObject("SWT_Window0").Click" Just clicks middle of the window.
I've also tried other things like
.Click 2,
.Click "Crosstab", .Press "Crosstab" etc but of no avail
I will also attach the properties of the SWT_Window0
"Class Name:=WinObject",
"abs_x:=1925",
"abs_y:=118",
"attached text:=",
"enabled:=True",
"focused:=True",
"hashscroll:=False",
"hasvscroll:=True",
"height:=417",
"hscrollpagesize:=",
"hscrollposition:=",
"hwnd:=69930",
"leftscrollbar:=False",
"maxhscrollpos:=",
"maxvscrollpos:=1142",
"minhscrollpos:=",
"minvscrollpos:=0",
"nativeclass:=SWT_Window0",
"object class:=SWT_Window0",
"regexpwndclass:=SWT_Window0",
"regexpwndtitle:=",
"rightaligned:=False",
"righttoleftlayout:=False",
"righttoleftreading:=False",
"text:=",
"visible:=True",
"vscrollpagesize:=418",
"vscrollposition:=0",
"width:=376",
"window id:=0",
"windowextendedstyle:=1048576",
"windowstyle:=1445003264",
"x:=13",
"y:=126"
SWT is a Java toolkit (Standard Widget Toolkit).
I suggest you try using UFT's Java addin.
If that doesn't help, you can try using Insight (image based testing).
Before going on with other solutions, contact the HPE(Microfocus) support and make sure they do everything possible to recognize these objects as Java Objects. If the cannot help you recognize the Objects as Java Objects then your possibilities are:
1. Mercury.DeviceReplay
DragAndDrop Method. You will need to know the coordonates of the source and destination (This requires a static resolution)
2. Virtual Objects
Create 2 Virtual Objects on the areas you need. On the source OBject call the Drag method, on the Target the Drop. Restriction is again the resolution.
Related
Question
How to use these private functions on other windows? It would be nice to have this knowledge back in the wild. I am specifically trying to get CGSOrderWindow and CGSSetWindowLevel to work.
I was trying in the direction of:
temporarily register as the dock and then register the dock as the dock again immediately afterwards
or
code injection into the Dock process per this comment:
Also, the author of the above project seems determined to make all core functionality available as a framework. It seems to be implemented as code injection into the Dock process.
Reason I know this is possible
I have been doing work on trying to setLevel on window of another app, and focus window of another app if focused. I am posting this again with the info I learned because from my searching online, I know this was done in the past, its just the knowledge is not publicly out there anymore. The sourceforge pages are no longer there. So I was wondering if you could help me make this information public again.
This is the topic I read that gave me this information - http://cocoadev.com/HowtoControlOtherAppsWindows
Here you see comments like:
You cannot control an another app's windows from a user-level process, unfortunately.
SlavaKarpenko
You can, Slava, you just need to register as the Dock. It might be possible to temporarily register as the dock and then register the dock as the dock again immediately afterwards, not sure. I think the call you'd be wanting to investigate as CoreDockRegisterDockOwner in HIServices.framework.
FinlayDobbie
You could also use APE or similar to do control the windows, or (as mentioned above) register as the Dock (look for the private APIs with Universal Connection in their name). Has anyone found a polite way of getting the Dock to give up its universal connection? The only way I can find is to force quit the Dock and grab the universal connection when it's not looking (which prevents the dock reloading).
SamTaylor
There's an open source project up on sourceforge.net that looks much more like the window managers I've used on Unix boxes than Space.app (or Space.dock): http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net/
SteveCook
Verifying things work
This is what I learned, from the sources at bottom of this post, we see all these functions work with CGWindowIds, so how do I get that, this is how:
Get all windows with CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo. Then access each element from that array with CFArrayGetValueAtIndex and then get the CGWindowId with objectForKey:, kCGWindowNumber, and then integerValue.
Now if I try to focus or set level of a window that is OWNED by the app running the code, it works fantastic. For instance:
MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID = 179;
rez_CGError = CGSOrderWindow(_CGSDefaultConnection, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID, kCGSOrderAbove, 0);
Will focus it, rez_CGError is 0. Even if the window is minimized, it is unminimized, without animation, and shown.
Now however, if I try this on a window of a different app we get some errors:
MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app = 40;
rez_CGError = CGSOrderWindow(_CGSDefaultConnection, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app, kCGSOrderAbove, 0);
This fails and rez_CGError is 1000, which I suspect means "cid (CGSConnection) used does not have permission to modify target window". The same happens if I first do [app activateWithOptions: (NSApplicationActivateIgnoringOtherApps | NSApplicationActivateAllWindows)] before making the call above.
So I first get the cid of that owning window like this:
var rez_CGError = CGSGetWindowOwner(_CGSDefaultConnection, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app, &ownerCid);
This works good and I get ownerCid is set to a value. Then I do the focus command with this new connection:
rez_CGError = CGSOrderWindow(ownerCid, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app, kCGSOrderAbove, 0);
However this gives rez_CGError of 268435459, which I suspect means "current app does not have permission to use this ConnectionId (cid)". (Same happens if I call activateWithOptions first.
My Sources for the Private Functions
Here is the sources for some private functions I found - https://code.google.com/p/undocumented-goodness/source/browse/trunk/CoreGraphics/CGSPrivate.h
This one source here contains a function that is not in the above link - CGSGetConnectionIDForPSN - i test it and it exists - from - https://github.com/mnutt/libqxt/blob/767498816dfa1742a6f3aee787281745afec11b8/src/gui/qxtwindowsystem_mac.h#L80
i'm facing one problem about attaching movieclip from loaded movie, so basically we have a Map
Map.loadMovie("SimpleMap.swf");
in this map there's a npc dialogue with its name "Dialogue1" I want to attach it to the client. It should be basically something like
_root.attachMovie("Map.Dialogue1", "dialogue", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
but it seems I can't get it to work. Anyone can help?
Note: Also I want to attach the movieclip to the client instead of the map, else I would use Map.attachMovie
it's been a while since I wrote any Actionscript 2 stuff, but have you tried removing the quotes around Map.Dialogue1 ? - If I remember correctly passing a string would make Flash look for the symbol in the library, not from the global or current scope...
_root.attachMovie(Map.Dialogue1, "dialogue", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
If you want you can import mx.core.UIObject and then use the method _root.createObject() (or if it is O-O use createClassObject()).
It is going to attach the "npc dialog" as an object... you need to specify the linkage name and give the instance a name. So for example if you called the dialog "npc_dialog" in the library then use:
_root.createObject("npc_dialog", "my_npc", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
Here is something else you can try... go to the library and drag a instance of the movie onto the stage somewhere where it will not be seen, like for instance on the next key frame or off the stage then try to run attachMovie().
What happens is flash will compile the clip in the most efficient way possible so if it sees you imported a package but did not use it then it will ignore this class in the compiled clip... so when you go to run and it tries to attach the movie it can't find it.
I have to check a frame window with RFT which is written with a .net framework. My problem is, after adding the frame as Testobject via drag and drop to the script it works fine. But after restarting RFT, it isnt able to recognize that frame any more, neither with find method or the highlight function for objects.
I read that there is a way to add objects to the proxys. But this frame is declared at proxy .Net.FormProxy and this proxy is existing in the file rational_ft.rftcust as
<Obj L=".Proxy">
<ClassName>Rational.Test.Ft.Domain.Net.FormProxy</ClassName>
<Replaces/>
<UsedBy>[System.Windows.Forms]System.Windows.Forms.Form</UsedBy>
</Obj>
I dont get what is the problem. Especially, why is it working some times but not always.
Thx for help..
The problem you have mentioned may happen for the following reasons.
The object recognition is indeed changing . And it is not necessarily the object that you are having problem with has object recognition issue , but an object in the parent heirarchy of this object (unless this object is the top level object).
The second reason could be the application is not getting enabled during playback time and you can try getRootTestObject().enableForTesting(/) API to force enable the application.
On a recorded Form object in the Object Map try to use the "update recognition properties" to see if there is change in recognition properties in actual vs recorded object.
You can also just test a different simple Form Application to see if the issue is related to your application or if it is general issue in your environment( I suspect it to be related to the application).
While executing my script in RFT, my script got failed due to the slight position change of a button. (This button's position slightly changes according to the option selected for previous combo box due to the label appearing near the button)
As there are 2 positions for this button in window, one of my script fails while other passes.
Please suggest how to identify this same object in 2 different places in RFT?
If you're alright with not using pre-mapped values and instead work with objects directly in code (which I've personally found to be extremely useful... it's allowed me to do great and wondrous things with RFT :), the following ought to work fine:
private void clickObject(String uniqueIdentifier) {
// Find object
RootTestObject root = RootTestObject.getRootTestObject();
TestObject[] matchingObjs = root.find(atProperty(".id", uniqueIdentifier));
if (matchingObjs.length > 0) {
// Click the object
((GuiTestObject) matchingObjs[0]).click();
}
// Clean-up
unregister(matchingObjs);
}
Feel free to replace ".id" with whatever property is best suited for the situation... since I work primarily with a web application, the ".id" property has worked splendidly for me.
Because the method finds the object anew each time, it'll grab the object's position wherever it's at at the time the method's called. The clean-up will also prevent any weird, horrible, and otherwise unfortunate UnregisteredObjectExceptions from cropping up.
Without looking at your pages I cannot be sure, but I think the buttons are actually two different buttons. Maybe they are generated by javascript, or they are just un-hidden after the option you select in the combobox.
If they are two different buttons (record them both and look at the recognition properties) you can either replace some properties with a regular expression or check wich button is visible/exists and then click it:
if (btn_button1.exists()) {
btn_button1.click();
} else if (btn_button2.exists()) {
btn_button1.click();
}
Here's a more complete tutorial on Object Recognition.
You can increase the tolerance of Rational Performance Tester AssureScript in the properties tab or you could set the description but hide the value. You can also make a custom code that updates the object map to prepare for this change in a java IF structure
I’m looking for alternative for existing tests written in QTP for my Win32 application written in Borland C++.
My candidate is White which based on UI Automation because it’s native solution,
I can create my tests using .NET/C# and easily integrate it with nUnit and Hudson.
White
http://white.codeplex.com
MS UI Automation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms747327.aspx
UI Verify
http://uiautomationverify.codeplex.com
I use UI Verify as a spy to identify properties of objects I want to find in my tests.
More or less when I can see something in the spy, I can find it using UI Automation/White.
Generally I don't have much problems with recognizing objects
but when I try to search some content inside the tab contained in Tab Panel
or try to see MenuItems of Menu bar then the problem appears.
UI Automation/UI Verify works wired. When I run UI Verify (1.0 version) I see that objects can be registered properly only then
when I set 'Focus tracking' option and click on target objects or change the keyboard cursor on them. Otherwise it's impossible to find them.
UI Verifier can show me children of my 'tab' panel then. But I can’t find them using UI Automation/White. This is example code:
Tab tab = window.Get();
ITabPage tabPage = tab.SelectedTab;
AutomationElementCollection newCol = tabPage.AutomationElement.FindAll(TreeScope.Descendants, Condition.TrueCondition);
window.Get("buttonName");
the collection is empty even though spy see the children.
Does any of you have some experience with White/UI Automation library that he/she would like to share with me?
I want to implement the tracking feature from the spy to my tests. Can you help me with that? I'm trying to study the code of UIA Verify spy. I think that there are two classes responsible for catching the objects: FocusChangeListener and FocusTracer - this is the code:
http://uiautomationverify.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/9992#214260
http://uiautomationverify.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/9992#214192
Requirements:
1. Windows SDK
2. .NET 3.5
3. White
4. UIA Verify code
Do you have any better alternative for White/UI Automation?
R.
Could you, the R or YoYo, put your form compiled or in source codes (preferable without the internal logic) somewhere on a file share?
I've never seen a control that'd be not caught using UI Automation if UIAVerify sees it. I saw such windows, which could be only caught with the Focus Tracking feature of UIAVerify. This case, such a window is untouchable by UI Automation search.
Regarding a control, are you sure that the controls you struggling with have the Name property? Maybe, this is a value available only by means of ValuePattern, not the Name?