Finding text within a bitmap
In the application I am testing, we add objects to a template. I can click on them to interact with the objects, but TestComplete can't see the object. I access the object by clicking on X-Y coordinates within the template. This normally works, but it will often miss and click away from the object, if, for example, the application isn't sized the way it was when the script was captured. The template the object is on is an XtraScrollableControl object.
I don't know if this is possible, but what would be useful is if I could take a bitmap of the template, and return the X-Y location of the desired text. If it returned the coordinates of the center of the "Text Label" string, that would be ideal. That way, I'd always be sure that my clicks would be on target.
I expect that TestComplete itself can't do this; I haven't seen anything in the Region compare which lets you search for text. Are there third party tools that could allow you to search a bitmap for text and return a coordinate? Even if such a thing existed, it would slow down my script, but that still might be worthwhile.
Actually, probably easier (and more accurate) than region comparison is the Text Recognition feature of TestComplete. This is a feature specifically designed to find components, etc., within an application for which there is no easy recognition. It's similar to the OCR item that Colin_McCrae but uses a bit of a different technology so might work better if OCR does not. One caveat... it only works for desktop applications so this would not apply to web apps or mobile apps.
