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mateenhussain
Occasional Contributor
15 years ago

Clear text before doing Send Keys

Hi I am trying to edit a textbox. At first I used testObj.wText property to set text on the textbox. But I had to move to testObj.SendKeys() method as wText didnt work on all platforms, due ...
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hagai1973
Occasional Visitor

'Function received the text box object

 

Function ClearTextBox(outTxtObj)
  If outTxtObj.text <> "" Then
       ClearTextBox = False

       'Locate mouse in the left corner of edit box

       outTxtObj.Click 5,10
       For i = 0 to Len(outTxtObj.text)
           outTxtObj.keys("[Del]")
       Next
  End If


  If outTxtObj.text = "" Then
       ClearTextBox = True
       Log.Message("Edit box was cleared")
   End If
End Function

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kirk_bottomley
Contributor
10 years ago

Nice one, Hagai.

 

I've got one in JScript I use before sending keys to a text object. Pass in whatever property you want to search for the text field with (I usually use Name, frequently with wildcards), the parameter, and the process. It also has to be a visible object.

function ClearTextObject(ByProperty, Parameter, ProcessName)
{
var PropArray, ValuesArray, Process, Target;
var Depth = 5;
  
PropArray = new Array(ByProperty, "Visible");
ValuesArray = new Array(Parameter, true);

Process = Sys.Process(ProcessName);
Target = Process.FindChild(PropArray, ValuesArray, Depth);

try
{
  if (Target.Exists)
  {
    var Text = Target.Text;
    var Length = Text.length;
    
    Target.Click();
    Target.Keys("[End]");
    
    Indicator.PushText("Backspacing the text away.");
    for (i = 0; i < Length; i++)
    {
      Target.Keys("[BS]");
    }
    Indicator.PopText();
  }
  else
    Log.Error("The object was not found.");
}
    
catch (err)
 {
  Log.Error(err.description)
 }
}
  • jsc's avatar
    jsc
    Regular Contributor
    10 years ago

    you can try

    Obj.Keys("^aMyText")

    so all text is selected (^a) and replaced withy "MyText"

     

    Or Obj.SetText("MyText")

    • Colin_McCrae's avatar
      Colin_McCrae
      Community Hero
      10 years ago

      I would go with one of the methods that selects all and/or deletes/overwrites the text, and uses keys.

       

      Personally, I think using methods such as "Clear" and "Value" and "SetText" are all bad. Reason being, your automated test is supposed to simulate a user. The user cannot invoke any of these methods. If you use them in your automated test, you are potentially going to miss defects as you are not using the application in the same way the user does.

       

      Also, using these methods may not activate event triggers which should activate when "Keys" is used.

       

      Thats my take on it anyway. Always emulate the user. Don't use methods the user can't get to just because it makes life easier. Thats not a proper test.