Forum Discussion

bdrummond's avatar
bdrummond
Contributor
8 years ago

Help With Finding Objects/Controls Within a single (Dynamic) Page embedded Browser.

Hi All,   I have difficulties trying to find controls/objects within a single (dynamic) page embedded browser - within a a desktop application. So far, the furthest i can manage is to achieve is to...
  • bdrummond's avatar
    bdrummond
    8 years ago

    Hi tristaanogre,

     

    Thanks a lot for your input. I have spoken to the developer & Project Manager regarding your idea of prototyping.

     

    I may get this later on (probably, next month) as things getting busy in here.

     

    I will update this article once I have them. In the meanwhile the TCs support still helping me with an alternative.

     

    thanks alot.

     

    BD

  • bdrummond's avatar
    bdrummond
    8 years ago

    Hi all again,

     

    After a few weeks of exchanging emails to/from Test Complete support. They have given me a solution to the issue which I originally have encountered.

     

    Now, I can see the objects under the main page and view it in Object Explorer (see images). The support ask me to insert the following Command-line parameters in the "TestedApps":

     

    -injectcefhook --register-pepper-plugins="c:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\TestComplete 12\x64\Bin\Extensions\tcCrExtension\tcCEFHost.dll;application/x-testcomplete12-0-chrome-browser-agent"

    I am not sure whether this would only worked on my machine's environment or this can be used generically across all different users which has come across this problem.

     

    Although it is still too early to tell how good this solution is, as I haven't gone and test this too far just yet, this is a big milestone to our testing and glad to have it working.

     

    Thank you for all of your inputs!

     

    Regards,

tristaanogre's avatar
tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
8 years ago

While the application is a desktop application, the fact that it is an embedded browser means you still need to have the web module of TestComplete to work with the individual objects and components within the embedded pages. I have a similar application that I'm testing and, without the web module, we cannot see the components within the embedded IE browser objects.  With the web module enabled, suddenly, everything is there. :)

  • bdrummond's avatar
    bdrummond
    Contributor
    8 years ago

    Hi Tristaanogre,

     

    Thanks for you input. To clarify what you've said regarding to "..have the web module of TestComplete to work with ind..." do you mean the TestComplete Extensions?

     

    I have enabled the necessary extensions to work with embedded web page in as application. see image below. image attached below.

     

    do you have any example with what you have done?

     

    regards,

     

    • tristaanogre's avatar
      tristaanogre
      Esteemed Contributor
      8 years ago

      Not exactly the extensions... more on the lines of the actual license to use TestComplete to test web applications.  I think the extensions are installed regardless of whether or not you have the license.  It's possible you have the web license but that's one of the first things I'd check.

       

      Since it's a Chromium Embedded Browser, there ARE a few conditions in order to allow TC to see those kinds of objects.  Please read https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/app-testing/web/general/cef-support.html

      • tristaanogre's avatar
        tristaanogre
        Esteemed Contributor
        8 years ago

        I noticed that you mentioned you already went through some of the preparation for doing CEF support.  Do you know what version of CEF your application is developed with? 

         

        Also, according to that document, you need to make sure that your application is launched via the TestApplications part of TestComplete.  Manually launching it I'm not 100% certain will do what you need it to do.  Can you confirm (see bold section below):


        In order to expose a CEF-based application, you need to add it to the Tested Applications collection and then launch it in Simple run mode, while one of the following conditions is met:

        • The application's executable imports the libcef.dll library.

        -- or --

        • The libcef.dll library and the application's executable are located in the same folder.

        -- or --

        • The application has the injectCefHook command-line argument (in any letter case and with any prefix).