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Thanh
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Cannot locate the text of a combo box in Outlook

Hello all,    I am trying to write some test and I need to obtain the text in the "Location" field when creating a new meeting from Microsoft Outlook. However, when I use the object spy I cannot se...
  • Ravik's avatar
    Ravik
    9 years ago

    Hi Thanh 

     

    There is two Object one is ComboBox and second in ListBox (under that comboBox) and all text are in List box.

     

    Try below code, it may help you.

     

    NameMapping.Sys.Process("OUTLOOK").Window("rctrl_renwnd32", "abc ", 1).Window("AfxWndW", "", 1).Window("AfxWndW", "", 1).Window("#32770", "", 1).Window("REComboBox20W", "", 1).Click

     

    c = NameMapping.Sys.Process("OUTLOOK").Window("REListBox20W", "", 1).wItemList

     

    wItemList will return all the text in the form io LIST

     

    Apply - wItem, wItemCount, selectItme and so on method

     

     

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Ravik
Super Contributor
9 years ago

Hi Thanh 

 

There is two Object one is ComboBox and second in ListBox (under that comboBox) and all text are in List box.

 

Try below code, it may help you.

 

NameMapping.Sys.Process("OUTLOOK").Window("rctrl_renwnd32", "abc ", 1).Window("AfxWndW", "", 1).Window("AfxWndW", "", 1).Window("#32770", "", 1).Window("REComboBox20W", "", 1).Click

 

c = NameMapping.Sys.Process("OUTLOOK").Window("REListBox20W", "", 1).wItemList

 

wItemList will return all the text in the form io LIST

 

Apply - wItem, wItemCount, selectItme and so on method

 

 

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    Thanh
    Occasional Contributor
    9 years ago

    Hi Ravik

     

    Just want to say thank you for your response and I can now see the text I was after. Thank you