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RandyJ5150's avatar
RandyJ5150
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

Accessing Sub Menu Items from Context Menu

This is my first question to the community.  I'm testing a WPF app with TC v12.60 and trying to access sub menu items from a context menu generated from a right-click on an object.   The context ...
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shankar_r
Community Hero
7 years ago

TestComplete provides access to popup menu objects. 

 

Have you tried below,

  1. Aliases.CrewWare.HwndSource_PopupRoot.PopupRoot.Click("<ITem name or Index>")
  2. Aliases.MyApp.HwndSource_mainWindow.mainWindow.tabControl1.listBoxDevices.Items(0).Popup.Clcik("<ITem name or Index>")
  3. If you are not able to find a solution with above two steps then try to record the action and see how TestComplete clicks. You will find a idea here.

Still you are not able to resolve prove some snapshots of Object properties etc.

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    RandyJ5150
    Occasional Contributor
    7 years ago

    The recorded action converted to the following steps:

    Aliases.CrewWare.HwndSource_PopupRoot.PopupRoot.Click(58, 105)
    Aliases.CrewWare.HwndSource_PopupRoot.PopupRoot.Click(68, 11)
    Aliases.CrewWare.HwndSource_PopupRoot.PopupRoot.Click(64, 15)

     

    The image snapshots for each step above showed the correct submenu, but when run, all of the clicks occured in the first-level menu, not the submenus.  Additionally, these are still based on relative X,Y coordinates of the object.  I would like to access the menu items by name, header, or possibly even a tag in the WPF object.

     

    The TC Click Action accepts X,Y coordinates, so name or index will not work as parameters there.

     

    Others report success using FindChild, but I have not been able to get FindChild to return the menu item object.

     

    The object returned by Point and Fix object:
    Aliases.CrewWare.HwndSource_PopupRoot.PopupRoot.WPFObject("Decorator", "", 1).WPFObject("NonLogicalAdornerDecorator", "", 1)

     

    I'm thinking I need to poke around this object somehow.

     

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      RandyJ5150
      Occasional Contributor
      7 years ago

      Poking around the Aliases.CrewWare.HwndSource_PopupRoot.PopupRoot.WPFObject("Decorator", "", 1).WPFObject("NonLogicalAdornerDecorator", "", 1) object has been enlightening, but I cannot figure out how to access the menu items by name.  I know this has been solved because I see other solutions.  Can someone help me understand what I'm working with?

       

      While poking around, I did write the following snippet and received the following results.  Am I barking up the right tree or pursuing a futile course of action?  Can someone explain what these object are?

       

       

      Script:

      # Attempting to figure out how to access context menu items by names, so far unsuccessful
      arrayproperties=["ClrClassName"]
      arrayvalues=["*"]
      something = Aliases.CrewWare.HwndSource_PopupRoot.PopupRoot.FindAll(arrayproperties, arrayvalues, 100, True)
      for x in range(len(something)):
        Log.Message("something[" + str(x) + "]" + something[x].ClrClassName + ", " + something[x].Name)
        somethingelse = something[x].FindAll(arrayproperties, arrayvalues, 100, True)
        for y in range(len(somethingelse)):
          Log.Message("somethingelse[" + str(y) + "]" + somethingelse[y].ClrClassName + ", " + somethingelse[y].Name)

       

      Output:

      something[0]PopupRoot, WPFObject("PopupRoot", "", 1)
      somethingelse[0]PopupRoot, WPFObject("PopupRoot", "", 1)
      somethingelse[1]Decorator, WPFObject("Decorator", "", 1)
      somethingelse[2]NonLogicalAdornerDecorator, WPFObject("NonLogicalAdornerDecorator", "", 1)
      somethingelse[3]AdornerLayer, WPFObject("AdornerLayer", "", 2)
      somethingelse[4]AdornerLayer, WPFObject("AdornerLayer", "", 1)
      something[1]Decorator, WPFObject("Decorator", "", 1)
      somethingelse[0]Decorator, WPFObject("Decorator", "", 1)
      somethingelse[1]NonLogicalAdornerDecorator, WPFObject("NonLogicalAdornerDecorator", "", 1)
      somethingelse[2]AdornerLayer, WPFObject("AdornerLayer", "", 2)
      somethingelse[3]AdornerLayer, WPFObject("AdornerLayer", "", 1)
      something[2]NonLogicalAdornerDecorator, WPFObject("NonLogicalAdornerDecorator", "", 1)
      somethingelse[0]NonLogicalAdornerDecorator, WPFObject("NonLogicalAdornerDecorator", "", 1)
      somethingelse[1]AdornerLayer, WPFObject("AdornerLayer", "", 2)
      somethingelse[2]AdornerLayer, WPFObject("AdornerLayer", "", 1)
      something[3]AdornerLayer, WPFObject("AdornerLayer", "", 2)
      somethingelse[0]AdornerLayer, WPFObject("AdornerLayer", "", 2)
      something[4]AdornerLayer, WPFObject("AdornerLayer", "", 1)
      somethingelse[0]AdornerLayer, WPFObject("AdornerLayer", "", 1)

       

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        RandyJ5150
        Occasional Contributor
        7 years ago

        No solution found on how to access context menu items by Name or by Header name.