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Dewayne_Pinion
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10 years ago
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Clicking a button after finding WndCaption

Greetings, I am trying to write a routine to click any button within my AUT by calling the routine and passing it the button's WndCaption property. However, I am running into an issue, that the butt...
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    10 years ago

    You can wildcard Test as ?T?e?s?t to account for possible hot-key ampersands in the string. Just be aware this may produce false positives.

     

    sCaption = AddWildcards("Test")
    Call ClickMyButton(sCaption)
    ...

    ' Adds ? before each character in a string, for example:
' Test -> ?T?e?s?t
Function AddWildcards(Str)
  Dim re : Set re = New RegExp
  re.Pattern = "."
  re.Global = True

  AddWildcards = re.Replace(Str, "?$&")  
End Function

     

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HKosova
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
10 years ago

You can wildcard Test as ?T?e?s?t to account for possible hot-key ampersands in the string. Just be aware this may produce false positives.

 

sCaption = AddWildcards("Test")
Call ClickMyButton(sCaption)
...

' Adds ? before each character in a string, for example:
' Test -> ?T?e?s?t
Function AddWildcards(Str)
  Dim re : Set re = New RegExp
  re.Pattern = "."
  re.Global = True

  AddWildcards = re.Replace(Str, "?$&")  
End Function

 

  • Dewayne_Pinion's avatar
    Dewayne_Pinion
    Contributor
    10 years ago

    Hi Helen,

    Thanks for the help, as always. It is sorted now