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ioioio
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago
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Construct a object if I know the object name

Hi,

 

I have the following call:

 

Call Aliases.browser.page.formForm0.radiobutton1YearSubscription.ClickButton

where radiobutton1YearSubscription is a radio button in a form. In the same form i have another 2 radio buttons radiobutton2YearSubscription3600 and radiobutton3YearSubscription2400

 

 

I want to call the click method after a if statment like this:

 

If (y="1y") then
BTNy="radiobutton1YearSubscription"
elseif (y="2y") then
BTNy="radiobutton2YearSubscription3600"
elseif (y="3y") then
BTNy="radiobutton3YearSubscription2400"
End If

 

Call Aliases.browser.page.formForm0.BTNy.ClickButton

 

How can I construct the object knowing the button names?

 

Thanks

  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    8 years ago

    Hi,

     

    All scripting languages have an equivalent of the evaluate() or eval() function that accepts a string, executes it as code and returns a result.

    The code for your case will be like that (VBScript pseudocode that should be adjusted to match the language used in your project):

    ...
BTNy = "radiobutton1YearSubscription"
...

strObjAlias = aqString.Format("Aliases.browser.page.formForm0.%s", BTNy)
Set oObj = Evaluate(strObjAlias)
If (oObj.Exists) Then
  Call oObj.ClickButton()
Else
  ...
End If

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  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    8 years ago

    Hi,

     

    All scripting languages have an equivalent of the evaluate() or eval() function that accepts a string, executes it as code and returns a result.

    The code for your case will be like that (VBScript pseudocode that should be adjusted to match the language used in your project):

    ...
BTNy = "radiobutton1YearSubscription"
...

strObjAlias = aqString.Format("Aliases.browser.page.formForm0.%s", BTNy)
Set oObj = Evaluate(strObjAlias)
If (oObj.Exists) Then
  Call oObj.ClickButton()
Else
  ...
End If
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    8 years ago
    I think, for Aliases, you can still do a "FindChild" call. If you don't like doing eval calls, you can try that.
    • AlexKaras's avatar
      AlexKaras
      Champion Level 3
      8 years ago

      > for Aliases, you can still do a "FindChild" call.

      With 'WaitAliasChild' probably been a more relevant option...

      • ioioio's avatar
        ioioio
        Occasional Contributor
        8 years ago

        Thanks.

         

        Eval(string) did the trick.