I am creating calculator VBO in blueprism object studio.
In application modeller I gave calc.exe path and able to launch calculator, but I am not getting identify option to spy on any element..
In Element, After clicking Launch buttion, identify is appearing for a split of sec and Launch button is coming back instead of Identify
PS- As mentioned in videos and links, I have launched calc via application modeller not directly via windows..
I am using windows 10, BluePrism V.5.0.11.0 versionenter image description here
Windows 10 calculator is complicated case, please consider using different application in your training. For example paint is much simpler to get started.
If you really need to get that going, then you may need to launch application first, using one object, and afterwards use second object to attach and interact with it.
can be two reasons
1. Either your application is not launched properly.
2. Sometimes we face problems with some versions of applications.
The best way to fix your problem is
Edit your settings remove the application path from the navigate stage.
Launch the application separately
Open Navigate stage > Action > Attach
Provide the window title within quotes (example: "Calculator")
Click OK then run the object
Now if you go to application modeller
You will be able to see the identify button under the element.
Hope this will help you.
I resolved this by unchecking "Disable invasive techniques (hooking)".
The Windows 10 calculator runs with process name win32calc which is also located under c:\windows\system32.
So when you launch the application please make you identify the applications process name and its location
I resolved this by circumventing to windows 7 calculator instead of a windows 10 calculator on windows 10.
Link to download win 7 calculator for win 10-
https://winaero.com/download.php?view.1795
This will be installed in the same place as your default calculator.
Inside-
C:\Windows\System32
The name of the app in my case was "calc1.exe" to avoid collisions with the default calculator.
I used this as my base reference app for spying and it worked.
Also note, the hover to highlight button seems to be a bit buggy, try a bit hit and trail to get you required button to be highlighted and mark using "Ctrl+LeftClick"
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I'm developing an application in which, if I press a combination of keys shows me a popup inside the form of another external application, I mean something like the "windows game menu", but I have no idea how to show the popup in the external application. I leave you an image to make you understand what I mean as a popup. sorry for my english but I do not speak.
Thanks in advance
You cannot control one application form of another application without having access to its code or knowing if a queue messaging command has been set for doing it.
It is possible to program a window of your application to be shown over any other , likely this will not be working over a Directx - OpenGL full-area, i.e. when you are playing a videogame that is using the same functionality because the last one is winning.
In this case your popup will be visible barely as a flick, but considering standard form application you can make it to stand over by working with userd32.dll method
"SetWindowPos" with the flag HWND_TOPMOST.
You will need first to detect the position of the application window, or if it is a fullscreen one you can simply detect the size of the screen and consider to place it in the center, then you can set the position of your application form "pop-up".
Details about the SetWindowPos , which is among windwows base dll but can be invoked from .net here below:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setwindowpos
Make a window topmost using a window handle
I need to create a simple Delphi application, kiosk style.
It is a very simple thing, a single form where the user writes some personal info to register to an event. 4 TEdit and a TButton.
What I want to achieve is to avoid the user does any action different then typing in TEdit or clicking on the TButton. For example I don't want he does ALT TAB (switchin applications), pressing windows key on keyboard, doing ctrl-alt-canc, etc...
I can add a passowrd protected Button that enables/disables this "Kiosk mode", in this way as I need to exit the kiosk mode I simply press that button and exit.
How to achieve this "kiosk mode" in Delphi without intercepting all the keystrokes manually? Or did anyone already develop this so it can be shared?
I think you'd better create a new desktop, and run your app in there. When your app is done, you can bring back user's desktop. That is how Windows login screen works. Of course Windows login screen uses a special secure desktop. Your app in a separate desktop would be isolated. You will have a desktop background with no start menu, taskbar, or desktop icons because explorer.exe is not running there automatically. Of course a can start a new process, using Task Manager, but desktops in Windows are securable objects; therefore, you can make restrictions if you want. Of course if your app has sufficient permissions.
To create a new desktop, you can use CreateDesktop Windows API, and to switch to the newly created desktop, you can use OpenDesktop function.
You can try Change the Windows Shell.
When you start windows, you don't execute the default shell (explorer.exe), you can execute your application.
Al internet you can find alternative Shell (more attractive) to default windows like:
BlueBox or
SharpE
This option is used for purposes similars at the application that you are developing. Kiosks or TPV.
For change the default applicacion you must modify a registry key:
In Win3.x and Win9x, SYSTEM.INI file:
[boot]
shell=MiAplicacion.exe
In Win2k and WinXP, use Registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
Shell=MiAplicacion.exe
If you test this option, think the mode to turn the configuration to the original value (button or option). You must reboot to test changes.
ADDED: In addition, if you search on the web some similar at this "Delphi Change default windows shell", you can find more code, samples and information about this.
Regards
P.D: Excuse me for mistakes with english.
Well but if someone can open the taskmgr he could just create a new task and run explorer.exe from there so its not really secure though...
Ok Taskmgr can be stopped with policies...
Well and for disabling the cad sequence you can use saslibex which Remko Weijnen had created you can find it here: SASLibEx
kindest regrads,
s!
I have an App that I inherited in VB6 and have ported mostly to VB.net
When I compile / run the app - it highlights all the files in the current selected folder.
What makes it worse, is it's very difficult to search online as what search terms does one use?
The app was ported to VS 2005 - quite successfully - but this has me stumped...
I have tried commenting out all the code that's run on startup and it still does it, so it must be some sort of background thing...
Any ideas?
I can't find an old version of my app to see if it's changes I have made and I don't know where to begin. See the image:
The top part is before I run the app, the bottom is once the app is running and has focus. I hope it makes sense
Also, if I'm browsing and then run the app, and go back to the browser, when my app gets the focus again, the webpage goes back to the top...
The folder is just an example - Basically when I compile (or later run) my App, if I go to Windows Explorer - when the app gets focus - whatever folder I am in has all its files highlighted. If instead of going to Windows Explorer, I go to a web browser, when the app gets focus the browser goes to the top (similar to Home).
There is Windows Integratio, but I have commented out what I can and still am no closer.
Does this info help?
I found the problem - after going back to the vb6 project and removing everything except for the 5 modules needed to startup and I eventually tracked the problem.
There was some code being called when two edit boxes received focus which called send keys home and end - hence it would go home - select all files to the end. I had deactivated one of the edit boxes to not receive focus and it helped temporarily(obviously until the other box got focus), but since deactivating the send keys when they get focus has helped. Albeit an arbitrary problem, maybe it will help someone in the future..
I am having a weird issue with VS 2008 when I go to debug my program. When I click on the play button to run the program it flashes real quick and goes back to the VB IDE. No matter how many times I click on the play button it continually flashes and then goes back without displaying my form window or anything.
What type of setting would I need to change in order to correct this issue? I've been through most settings in the "my project" section and i do not see anything that could be causing it to do something like this.
My older vb apps I've made seem to work just fine when I click the play button on them. Only noticed this problem whenever I go and make a new vb app.
update video of what's going on
http://tinypic.com/r/2eycaas/7
Try this?
"
Did we install some third party Add-ins in your machine? If we disable Add-ins (“Tools” | “Add-in Manager”) and run “devenv.exe /safemode”, do we still have the problem? This can eliminate the possibility that third party Add-ins are causing problems.
We also can try to run devenv /resetsettings (Commonly, it makes sense than re-installation) or devenv /setup in Visual Studio Command Prompt.
"
--http://forums.asp.net/t/1324737.aspx/1
Just check your output window.
Accessible from Menu-> Debug-> Windows -> Output. (Check image:1)
In output window select Show output from: Build combobox. (Check image:2)
This will give you perfect idea what is happening.
Following are the guesses.
The VBC installer is not installed or corrupted.
Some addon is registered to run before compiling and is creating problem.
....Long list until you tell whats shown in output window.
Also check Show output from: Debug in output window and Final check would be Immediate window.
I feel this three would give you hint whats going wrong.
Fixed.
Changing it to x86 instead of Any CPU worked!!!! :) But question is, why me having an Core i7 Quad doesn't support the program when i choose x64.....
David
Is the startup form correct? You can see that in project properties.
I have a virtual machine (VMware) with Mercury Quick Test Professional 9.2 installed. I have a script to test an application, written in VB.NET using the Infragistics library.
If I access this virtual machine using my laptop (using Remote Desktop), everything works fine, the script completes without a problem. My laptop runs XP, with Windows Classic theme.
If I access this virtual machine using another machine (using Remote Desktop), the script starts fine, but stops halfway through, without no error message from QTP, nothing. This machine runs XP, with Windows Classic theme.
One difference between the two setups is the size of the screen, the laptop is 1920x1280, other machine 1280x1024.
The step where the script stops involves checking a checkbox within an UltraWinGrid. The checkbox itself is displayed, is on the screen in both cases.
Has anyone had this problem before, or have any idea why the behaviour is different between the two machines?
Thanks.
OK. I've found the problem. In fact, the script was failing silently because that's what the person who wrote the script told it to do. It couldn't validate something which was off screen, so the script failed.
The problem was the QTP definition of 'off screen'. I have two screens attached to my laptop, the screen for the laptop itself (1920x1200) and another screen (1280x1024). I connect to the VM for QTP using remote desktop, and it uses the settings of the screen for the laptop. This means that when I launch my QTP script, and move it to the other screen, it doesn't fit, so the screen is no longer maximized, and the object is partially off screen, so can't be found.
The fix is simple: in the Remote Desktop, use the Display tab, and set the size of the screen to a size to 1280x1024, and QTP doesn't have any more problems.
Voilà.
If you are not using Expert Mode, and / or are allowing QTP to do most of the work to create your repository objects, then yes it is referencing everything by pixels.
I create all of my repository objects by hand, viewing the source (in the case of automated web-application testing) and using the Object Spy for assistance where needed. I make a point to not have any positioning information as part of my object definition, for the very reason you are running in to.
For the parts of my web-app that interacted with Windows (opening a file to upload, etc.) the Object Spy was essential for the trial and error necessary to create a unique identifier for creating the repository object. But it can be done.
Ex1: File Browse Dialog
text = "Choose file"
nativeclass = #32770 (apparently some Windows VooDoo for a file open dialog?)
Ex2: Filename textbox in Browse dialog:
nativeclass = "Edit"
attached text "File &name:" (more Windows VooDoo? It woudn't work for me without the "&")
Ex3: Open Button in the dialog:
text = "&Open"
object class = "Button"
Good Luck!
Point of clarification: You mentioned that QTP stops with no error message. Does that also mean that the test results log file also has no error message? If the log has any information, that may be helpful in diagnosing the problem. Could you share the lines of code at the point where the script fails?
Also, remote desktop will resize the desktop on the remote machine. Although QTP scripts are not inherently coordinate based, individual statements can be coordinate-based relative to an object. The resolution could be an issue in that regard. For example, imagine you had a line like Button.Click(5, 150) recorded on a higher resolution machine. But if you attempted to play it back on a lower resolution machine, and the 150 is out of bounds of the object on the lower resolution, it could cause an issue.
QTP does not use screen coordinates except as a last resort, if the objects are identified as high level objects (SwfTable in this case) you should be OK, if however QTP doesn't recognise the object it falls back to WinObject and screen coordinates.
If you're using Infragistics then you should know that they extend QTP's support with their TestAdvantage product which will probably solve your issue.
Edit:
#MatthieuF said:
In fact, we use the Infragistics plugin for QTP, and we still have the problem
Can you give me an example of a line that fails?
A few things:
You should be able to debug on the VM easily - just wait for it to stop, go into your object repository, and see if it can identify the object. If no then use object spy to figure out what properties are different between the OSes. If there is a difference then you can always set that property to a regular expression and have it check for both possibilities.
Assuming that isn't the issue we've run into problems using remote desktop with QTP if the Remote window is closed or minimized. For us, it was an issue where the clipboard can not be changed when an RDP window isn't visible, but there could be other surprises when using QTP that way.