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Dewayne_Pinion
Contributor
10 years ago

Cannot find popup menu on playback

We are having a heck of a time trying to find and automate some of the controls within our application. It is a .NET app and it has several "popup" menus that users use for navigation. The problem is...
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    Ryan_Moran
    10 years ago

    So you need to hover the mouse over the parent control, and then click the popup menu?

    If so then you'll need a low level procedure to move the mouse and "hover" over the parent control, wait a few seconds, and then click the menu.

     

    [Edit] You can use .HoverMouse method on the parent control to hover and get the menu to pop up.

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Dewayne_Pinion
Contributor

Thanks for the reply Ryan,

 

I have adjusted the code to use the MappedName instead:

 

  Dim btn
   PropArray = Array("MappedName", "Visible")
    ValuesArray = Array("Aliases.M3_AKShell.ToolStripDropDownMenu1.ucChangeLevel.tableLayoutPanel1.tvLevel", True)
'Sys.Process("M3.AKShell").WinFormsObject("ToolStripDropDownMenu", "", 1).WinFormsObject("ucChangeLevel").WinFormsObject("tableLayoutPanel1").WinFormsObject("tvLevel").Click 10,10
  Set btn = Sys.Process("M3.AKShell").FindChild(PropArray, ValuesArray, 2000)

 Which returns with the control not found. I can switch Visible to False and find the control. However, how do I make the control visible on screen? I am just not sure there is a way to do this currently. Basically the menu works like this (to select a Company for our software to reference). All popups appear on Hover

 

(Top Menu) Select

(Pop Up) View Company Menu

(Pop Up)Tree View on a pop up form that enables us to select company

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Ryan_Moran
Valued Contributor
10 years ago

So you need to hover the mouse over the parent control, and then click the popup menu?

If so then you'll need a low level procedure to move the mouse and "hover" over the parent control, wait a few seconds, and then click the menu.

 

[Edit] You can use .HoverMouse method on the parent control to hover and get the menu to pop up.