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GielRaijmakers
New Contributor
10 years ago

regex to find childobject

Hi all.  I'm trying to find a childobject on a modal page. This modal page has a changing id....    I made a regex to find the page:    regEx = """http://(\w*).(\w*).(\w*)/MP02ZoekArtikel\.tn\?w...
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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
10 years ago

Hi Giel,

 

Assuming that there is one "Internet Explorer_Server" object in the tested application, why not to use the FindChild() functions provided by TestComplete? I.e. something like this (untested, off top of my head):

 

Set oIEWin = Sys.Process("Framework.UI").FindChild("WndClass", "Internet Explorer_Server", 20)

Set oPage = oIEWin.Page(*)

Set oGrid = oPage.FindChild("WndClass", "VSFlexGrid8L", 20)

 

I think that this is more reliable, simpler and clear than complex RegExp...

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    GielRaijmakers
    New Contributor
    10 years ago

    Hi Alex, 

    agree. 

    It is also kind of how I did it eventually. 

     

    Thanks for the support!