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AKapoor
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Issue with Object Identifying and Name Mapping

Objects identification in Test Complete is behaving differently than earlier recorded tests for the same application.   It is not identifying list items individually rather than highlighting frame ...
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    tristaanogre
    8 years ago

    OK... I THINK I see where the problem is.

    Go to the project where it's working correctly.  Go to Project -> Properties -> Open Applications -> MSAA.  There are a couple of things to check there.

    First of all, look to see if your component is listed there in MSAA.  Second of all, there is a check box at the bottom of the screen about working in a compatible mode.  Figure out what that's checked as.

     

    On the one that's "working" there is a property for NativeMSAA which tells me that, in that project, MSAA is configured to recognize this component.  In the project where this is NOT working, there is no NativeMSAA property so apparently something is different there.

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AKapoor
Occasional Contributor

It's a desktop application and compiled in .Net.

 

Earlier scripts were recorded by someone else on TC v10 but If I open the same project and record new test with latest test complete v11, it behaves like old script and identify the all list objects. However, if I create new project under same suite and record exact same test, it behaves differently and identifies frame as new name mapping gets created for new project. 

 

From application point of view, there is no change. It is working the same way with both test complete versions.

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
8 years ago

My guess is that there are some settings in your project properties on your original project that enable some stuff with the Open Application. 

 

 

What kind of control is it that you are dealing with?  My guess (and this is just a guess) is that this is not a "standard" control but that someone, in the TC 10 project, had to add the control to the Object Mapping on the project. (Project -> Properties -> Object Mapping). In the TC 11 project where you are doing your recording, that has not been set and so you are not seeing the control being treated properly.

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    AKapoor
    Occasional Contributor
    8 years ago

    I am mostly using Win32 or Window controls. But all other controls are checked even.

     

    And the strange thing, I compared configurations in all 3 version 9, 10 and 11 and could not find any difference. May be something I am not aware of particular to check.

     

    and If I create new project on old versions (9 or 10) also it behaves now like the latest versions excepts the ones recorded already or if creating new script under same project.

     

    So not able to figure out if test complete has some configuration options that can be changed to make the name mapping work differently.

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      tristaanogre
      Esteemed Contributor
      8 years ago

      I think you've confirmed my suspicion... there is something in your TC 10 project that is configured to recognize your control.

      Can you post a screenshot of the Object Spy of the "frame" you are trying to work with? That should give us the component class and we can figure out, from there, what needs to be changed and where.

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        tristaanogre
        Esteemed Contributor
        8 years ago

        Note that what I'm saying is that you are correct, there is a configuration that needs to be made.  However, that configuration is not a TestComplete configuration but something that needs to be changed in the Project Properties.  More specifically, I think it has to do with the component you are working with and whether or not it has been mapped under Object Mapping for TestComplete to recognize.