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RichBopp
Contributor
5 years ago

Keyword Tests - Are there recommended best practices to make Keyword tests Resolution agnostic?

Are there recommended best practices to make Keyword tests Resolution agnostic?  Let me give you some details.   We have a few Keyword scripts that utilize screen coordinates (i.e. - using the scro...
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    RichBopp
    5 years ago

    Gang,

     

    Thank you all for your suggestions.  Max over at SmartBear Support suggested the following that worked very well on all monitor types we tried it on, and i wanted to share with you:

     

    "I would suggest and the normally best way to use this scrollbar would be to use a method native to all browsers called "ScrollIntoView". To do this from a keyword test:

    1. Under the operations section on the left of the keyword test, search for "On-Screen Action".

    2. Manually add this operation (by dragging and dropping the operation) into the test.

    3.A dialogue should appear. In this dialogue, select the object you would like to scroll to.

    4. After selecting the object, select next.

    5. On this screen, a list of methods should be available. Search for "ScrollIntoView", then select it.

    6. Click Finish.

    When this is done, TestComplete should automatically scroll to the object."

     

    Team - again thank you for your time and suggestions.  Wish I could have seen you all in Boston in April, but maybe next year.

     

    Rich

     

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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3

Hi,

 

In addition to what was said by Marsha:

 

> using the scroll bar to drag to the bottom of the screen

If this is the only problem, you may consider, for example, to use <page>.Keys("[End]") to command the page to scroll to the bottom.

 

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rajulapati
Contributor
5 years ago

I would suggest you to use VScroll  property and add logic something like this.

 

scrollprop=Object.Vscroll.Max

Object.Vscroll.Pos = scrollprop

 

By using this, what ever may be the screen resolution, the object will only be scrolled upto its max and wouldnt throw an error.

Hope this would fix your issue.

 

-Ashwin

Please give a Kudo and accept it as a solution if this works.

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    RichBopp
    Contributor
    5 years ago

    Gang,

     

    Thank you all for your suggestions.  Max over at SmartBear Support suggested the following that worked very well on all monitor types we tried it on, and i wanted to share with you:

     

    "I would suggest and the normally best way to use this scrollbar would be to use a method native to all browsers called "ScrollIntoView". To do this from a keyword test:

    1. Under the operations section on the left of the keyword test, search for "On-Screen Action".

    2. Manually add this operation (by dragging and dropping the operation) into the test.

    3.A dialogue should appear. In this dialogue, select the object you would like to scroll to.

    4. After selecting the object, select next.

    5. On this screen, a list of methods should be available. Search for "ScrollIntoView", then select it.

    6. Click Finish.

    When this is done, TestComplete should automatically scroll to the object."

     

    Team - again thank you for your time and suggestions.  Wish I could have seen you all in Boston in April, but maybe next year.

     

    Rich