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hwang
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

Object Spy not able to capture subforms and its controls inside of main form

I have a windows desktop application with a main form. From main form, I can open a sub form with a lot of controls such as test box, search button etc. When I tried to use object spy to get these co...
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rraghvani
Champion Level 3

If you have TC on your local machine, and using Object Spy to identify desktop/web UI controls that's being hosted on a VM, it's not going to work. Same applies to having TC on a VM.

 

Majority of all automation tools have this issues. 

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hwang
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

TC and Application all are in VM. Object spy works for other application such as Notepad, WebBrowser in same VM,  only not work for my working application. 

I am not sure if the VM is a real issue.