How TC get the Web UI

Thanks for the reply, Allen.



My issue is, TC couldn't analyze some of my web table properly.

sorry for couldn't attach the img, because I'm at home now.



Under tree model, TC should can analyse a table to be Cell(0,0), Cell(0,1)......Cell(1,0), Cell(1,1)......

But currently, all the row id of the Cell is 0, so they are Cell(0,0), Cell(0,1)......, then again, Cell(0,0), Cell(0,1)........



The interesting part is, it works well on IE7, but not on IE8.

And for some of our build, it works properly on IE8 compatible mode, but never on un-compatible mode.



I try to review the html source to get some clue, but I couldn't.



And I just bump into the idea that it may be relevant to how TC get the web UI.



No matter what, know how TC get UI helps me know TC more.

Hi Matilda,



Please post an image of the problematic objects tree so we can examine it. Also, it would be great if you can provide us with access to the tested web page.



BTW, can the problem be reproduced with Firefox?

The fact is, we've submit a ticket for TC support to resolve the issue.



But I really want to know how TC get the Web UI, I believe it will help me to understand TC more.



And we don't test Firefox because it's not stable before, how about it now?

How, how, how...



TC connect to process via WinApi, f.e. "iexplore" (internet explorer), and then via dll "tcIEHook.dll" and other dll or files gets objects. All)

OK. Here is my list:



1. How TC get objects, by dll or by look up the HTML source

2. how objects tree is built

3. how object properties are retrieved

4. how values of properties are retrieved



Thanks for the reply.

Hi Matilda,





TestComplete uses special interfaces exposed by Microsoft. No HTML parsing is performed.