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geneticmaterial
Contributor
4 years ago

Capturing addEventListener details

Hi Can anyone point me in the right direction to capture the event's details that runs on the browser when a specific action occurs? In one example we trigger an event on our site when we populate ...
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tphillips
Frequent Contributor

You can't call TestComplete functions from events on web pages. It has to be a function the browser understands (e.g. an Alert), which TestComplete could then capture

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geneticmaterial
Contributor
4 years ago

Thanks for your response. Could you expand on this a little for me? Maybe an example?

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    tphillips
    Frequent Contributor
    4 years ago

    Try changing your calls to Log.Message() to alert() calls (which the browser supports)

    You can then capture the alert window using TestComplete and check the text in the alert.

    function Test()
{
    var browser = Sys.Browser("*");
    var page = browser.Page("*").contentDocument;
    page.addEventListener("form_field_complete", function (e) {
        alert('Adobe event '.concat(e.type));
        alert(e.detail);
    });
}

     If you don't get any alerts, you know that your event isn't firing properly.

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      geneticmaterial
      Contributor
      4 years ago

      Hmm, that's giving me a "type mismatch" at position 10 which is the start of .addEventListener

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        tphillips
        Frequent Contributor
        4 years ago

        You might need to play around with the page variable, you might have to remove the .contentDocument part when assigning it:

        var page = browser.Page("*");