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sohailalam2696
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10 months ago
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How to open Dev Tools using Test Complete?

These are the steps I tried but did not work. {   //Opens the specified URL in a running instance of the specified browser.   //Browsers.Item(btChrome).Navigate("https://example.com/");   //Click...
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  • nastester's avatar
    nastester
    10 months ago

    You could just do:

    function openDevTools() {
      Sys.Browser("chrome").Page("*").Keys("[F12]")
    }

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rraghvani
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10 months ago

To launch Chromes' DevTools, you need to press F12 on the BrowserWindow and not the Page object,

Sys.Browser("chrome").BrowserWindow(0).Keys('[F12]')

Object Spy is able to  identify the DevTools window as Sys.Browser("chrome").BrowserWindow(1).Window("Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND", "Chrome Legacy Window", 1) but not any of the UI controls.

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nastester
Regular Contributor
10 months ago

It absolutely works on the Page object. I did it yesterday. 

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    sohailalam2696
    Contributor
    10 months ago

    so you are saying we cannot go to other tabs like Performance or Console?

    Thanks

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      nastester
      Regular Contributor
      10 months ago

      No, like rraghvani said, TC cannot interact with the UI objects in dev tools

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      rraghvani
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      10 months ago

      Use the Object Spy tool, to see what UI objects are exposed.