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msheikh
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5 years ago

Determining the coordiante position of a certain gui item

  I would like to know if there is any way to determine what the coordinate position of a specific text or gui Item in a form. I have this window:         I want to know how I ...
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BenoitB
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5 years ago

Have you tried to add the TLogGrid class to the standard TStringGrid of supposed application developpment langage ? To access to its internal properties.

 

For knowing the caret position it's simple with win 32 api, function getCaretPos:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-getcaretpos

To use it in TestComplete:

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/advanced/using-external-functions/calling-win32-api.html

 

You can also use Sys.Desktop.MouseX and Sys.Desktop.MouseY to know the coordinate of the mouse, but you must find a way that the mouse is on the corrrect field.