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jonathon
Contributor
6 years ago

How to work when Object Spy doesn't find object

Hi   Just starting out with TC. I'm a little unsure what the best practice is when I can't find the element with object spy. I have multiple items that I currently can't find. So what is the best p...
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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor

As mentioned, try recording to "learn" your application a bit and how TestComplete interacts with it.

 

For your example, that's a ribbon or menu control in which the icons themselves are not individual objects but are interacted with via a "ClickItem" or "ClickMenu" or some other method.  Again, try a quick record to get an idea of what this looks like and then make your modifciations accordingly.

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Wamboo
Community Hero
6 years ago

Hi,

 

Theres a multiple solutions to be able to spay these object from screen:

 

1) Working with application in debug mode. Check below topic for more information:

https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-Desktop-Testing/Support-for-custom-objects/td-p/190410

 

2) Use Text Recognition Technology in TestComplete:

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/text-recognition/index.html

 

3) Remeber that in project properties You have a list of currently supported objects, try to add custom classes into this directory.

 

4) You can also use Image Repository to interact with objects on screen.

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/project-objects/items/image-repository/index.html