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Soren's avatar
Soren
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Mapping ToolStripDropdownMenu in keyword testing

Hi, We are doing keyword testing and are just getting started with TestComplete. However, we have run into an issue with the .NET item ToolStripDropDownMenu.   We have added it using “Add From Scr...
ToolStripDropDownMenu
  • NisHera's avatar
    NisHera
    9 years ago

    What you have shown is full name of the object which looks similar except WinFormsObject("ToolStripPanel", "", 4)  the number. And I think that number may be random or created dynamically .

     

    To identify two menus separately you have to use unique property of these objects. eg ("Caption" or unique child object).
    You can play around with object spy on your objects and find unique property to manually map two objects.


    You can read more in this subject here ..using advance mapping setting is relevent to your question


    if nothing helps, ask developers to inclued a unique property in to the object

NisHera's avatar
NisHera
Valued Contributor

What you have shown is full name of the object which looks similar except WinFormsObject("ToolStripPanel", "", 4)  the number. And I think that number may be random or created dynamically .

 

To identify two menus separately you have to use unique property of these objects. eg ("Caption" or unique child object).
You can play around with object spy on your objects and find unique property to manually map two objects.


You can read more in this subject here ..using advance mapping setting is relevent to your question


if nothing helps, ask developers to inclued a unique property in to the object

Soren's avatar
Soren
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Hi NisHera,

 

Thank you for your suggestion. I have look at the various properties and discussed them with the developper that is allocated to our test automation project. Sadly we have found none that we feel confident that we can use. But that would definitily have been a solution.

 

But we have actually figured away around the issue. Most of our ToolStripDropDownMenu's have keyboard shortcuts, so if we use thos in our keyword test to envoke the various menu's we can ensure we hit the right one everytime. Thos that doesn't have will keyboard shortcuts added to them.

 

Kind Regards

 

Soren

  • Jimbo's avatar
    Jimbo
    Occasional Contributor
    9 years ago

    Hello,

    I've tried demonstrating the problem we see with this little sample application, and it seems I get the same mapping no matter which toolstrip drop-down menu I'm pointing at.

     

    In this video you can see how I "pick" four different menus, and regardless of which menu item I choose, I get the same object path: Aliases.BlandetSlik.WinFormsObject("ToolStripDropDownMenu", "", 1). All four menus are number 1. Even the additional menus at the bottom are also number 1.

     

    I tried enabling "Extended find" on my name mapping and telling it to use .Text (which in .NET contains the text visual on each menu strip item), but this did not help. Adding a unique ".AccessibleName" to each menu and menu item item also did not help either.

     

    What can be done here?

     

    I've also added the example application too (this time with english texts and .AccessibleName set on each and every UI component).