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mateenhussain
Occasional Contributor
16 years ago

Clear text before doing Send Keys

Hi I am trying to edit a textbox. At first I used testObj.wText property to set text on the textbox. But I had to move to testObj.SendKeys() method as wText didnt work on all platforms, due ...
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hagai1973
Occasional Visitor
10 years ago

'Function received the text box object

 

Function ClearTextBox(outTxtObj)
  If outTxtObj.text <> "" Then
       ClearTextBox = False

       'Locate mouse in the left corner of edit box

       outTxtObj.Click 5,10
       For i = 0 to Len(outTxtObj.text)
           outTxtObj.keys("[Del]")
       Next
  End If


  If outTxtObj.text = "" Then
       ClearTextBox = True
       Log.Message("Edit box was cleared")
   End If
End Function

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kirk_bottomley
Contributor
10 years ago

Nice one, Hagai.

 

I've got one in JScript I use before sending keys to a text object. Pass in whatever property you want to search for the text field with (I usually use Name, frequently with wildcards), the parameter, and the process. It also has to be a visible object.

function ClearTextObject(ByProperty, Parameter, ProcessName)
{
var PropArray, ValuesArray, Process, Target;
var Depth = 5;
  
PropArray = new Array(ByProperty, "Visible");
ValuesArray = new Array(Parameter, true);

Process = Sys.Process(ProcessName);
Target = Process.FindChild(PropArray, ValuesArray, Depth);

try
{
  if (Target.Exists)
  {
    var Text = Target.Text;
    var Length = Text.length;
    
    Target.Click();
    Target.Keys("[End]");
    
    Indicator.PushText("Backspacing the text away.");
    for (i = 0; i < Length; i++)
    {
      Target.Keys("[BS]");
    }
    Indicator.PopText();
  }
  else
    Log.Error("The object was not found.");
}
    
catch (err)
 {
  Log.Error(err.description)
 }
}