Keys method painfully slow in TC 8.6 on IE8

Thank you Irene. I've made the support request.

FYi, while SetText may not always do what you want, there are other alternatives other than using "Keys".  There are native properties and methods on most components that allow you to manipulate them and call events and event handlers so as to simulate keystrokes without actually executing keystrokes.  I've found in cases where SetText does not work, this is my preferred method of doing things.

Hi Robert,



I am not familiar with the techniques you're describing. Let me give you a little more detail and perhaps you can point me in the right direction. The fields that I'm calling Keys() on are things like date and SSN fields that start out blank and then upon gaining focus change to "__/__/____" (for the example of date). Each numeric keystroke replaces a "_"; non-numerics are ignored and the "/" are skipped over. So typing "01232011" displays "01/23/2011" (ASP.NET AJAX Calendar Control). Looking at the Object Spy, it appears this is accomplished by defining onchange() and onkeypress() event handlers. Are you suggesting calling onkeypress() for each digit and then calling onchange() at that end? Is there an example of using this technique in TC you could point me at?



Thank you!

Frank

Why not just assign the text property of the component?  Shouldn't you be able to do something like

MyField.Text = "11/09/2011"

As for the events, yes, that's kind of what I'm talking about.  In my previous life, I had to automate a delphi application where I needed to make sure that, after using SetText, I called an event handler to update other fields on the same screen that are normally updated upon existing the edit field.  So, what I had to do was call the event handler after setting the text field for the exit.  It looked something like

MyField.Text := "2";

MyField.DoExit;

So, depending upon the component, you can simulate the effects of actual keystrokes by calling the event handlers.

Hi Robert,



Thanks for your tips. I was able to get acceptable behavior for SSN and phone number controls, but the date control remains illusive. Any characters entered disappear when the control looses focus. I'm sure there must be some combination of calls that will achieve the correct behavior, but for now I have to move on.



It was a big plus though to speed up testing the other two control types, so I appreciate you sharing your insights.

Irene, it works like a dream. It is faster than the Keys method ever was. Thanks!

Hi Team,

  In my application, I have to press (Ctrl+Shift+E) on a particular selected row using VB scripting. Please suggest me the way to do this once the row is selected using "set activecell' . I tried working with Sys.keys "[ctrl]" "[Shift]" "e" and also with sys.desktop.keys. But it did not work for our infragistics grid.