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fuulrkwl
New Contributor
10 years ago

Recognition of TdxRibbonPopupMenu component

Hello, any chance a TdxRibbonPopupMenuControl component is recognized correctly by TestComplete? It is a VCL component from Developer Express (the language is Delphi). You can find and download...
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    10 years ago
    Hi John,



    TestComplete doesn't specifically support galleries in TdxRibbon. You can automate them by using the native methods and properties of gallery objects, such as setSelected() that you mentioned. To learn which methods and properties you can use, explore the ribbon and gallery objects in the Object Browser, or refer to the documentation on DevExpress VCL ExpressBars (you can download the docs here).



    You can also submit a feature request for adding record & playback support for galleries in TdxRibbon:

    http://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete-survey/
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fuulrkwl
New Contributor
10 years ago
Hello,



here are the progress so far. I found another image online here (https://www.devexpress.com/Products/VCL/ExBars/i/features/ribbon/galleries.png) which is something similar to our application popup menu.



The chain of classes in our application, from the popup menu to the single elements of the menu itself, is:



TdxRibbonPopupMenuControl -> TdxBarSubMenuControlItemLinks -> TdxBarItemLink -> TdxRibbonGalleryItem -> TdxRibbonGalleryGroups -> TdxRibbonGalleryGroup -> TdxRibbonGalleryGroupItems -> TdxRibbonGalleryGroupItem.



Those are quite a lot of classes and none of them seems to be supported by TestComplete. The popup menu is composed of smaller group items similar to the submenus shown in the linked picture, where you can see the "Basic Math" and "Greek Letter" submenus.



There are some components of the menu that are correctly recognized (that is, TestComplete manages to record coordinate click relative to the single items), while others that are not recognized by the application.



I found out that the elements that are not correctly identified can be clicked via script via the following chain (using Debug information): TdxRibbon.BarManager.Items(x).GalleryCategories.Items(y).Items.Items(z).setSelected(true), while for the other elements correctly recognized there is no need to go through the GalleryCategories step. Can this be the problem?





Can someone direct me towards the road to follow to look for a solution?



Thanks in advance.