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ucuber
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

One Alias/Mapping for several parallel running instances of a program

Hi there,   I have a little perhaps trivial question I do not know how to solve.   Given:  - A program named GpxSimulator basing on C#.NET with a multi-tab gui - A mapping/alias to GpxSim...
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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
7 years ago

Hi Ulrich,

 

You may add process PID as additional identification criterion to Namemapping and make it dynamic by not hard-coding it but setting in run-time using Project Variable (see https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/name-mapping/basic-mapping-criteria.html and https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/name-mapping/conditional-mapping-criteria.html for mode details).

 

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    ucuber
    Occasional Contributor
    7 years ago

    Hi Alex,

     

    thank you for your fast reply. After fiddling around with it I came up to this solution (I've wrote me a littler wrapper around ProjectVariables):

     

    def class_device_simulator_gui_local_test():
      """ """
      set_project_variable("ProcessId", "INTEGER", 3076)
  Log.Message("{}".format(get_project_variable("ProcessId")))  
  Aliases.GpxSimulator.RefreshMappingInfo() #<-- never forget!!!
  Log.Message("{} {}".format(Aliases.GpxSimulator.Id, Aliases.GpxSimulator.Index))
  item = Aliases.GpxSimulator.MainWindow.mainSplitContainer.SplitterPanel.mainTabControl.versionsTabPage.versionsListView.SelectItem(11)
  Log.Message("{}".format(item))
     
  set_project_variable("ProcessId", "INTEGER", 5676)
  Log.Message("{}".format(get_project_variable("ProcessId")))
  Aliases.GpxSimulator.RefreshMappingInfo() #<-- and again: never forget!!
  Log.Message("{} {}".format(Aliases.GpxSimulator.Id, Aliases.GpxSimulator.Index))
  item = Aliases.GpxSimulator.MainWindow.mainSplitContainer.SplitterPanel.mainTabControl.versionsTabPage.versionsListView.SelectItem(11)
  Log.Message("{}".format(item))

    This works fine, but one should never forget the RefreshMappingInfo()-call. That cost me a lot of time ;-)

     

    Kind Regards

     

    Ulrich