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Petewilson's avatar
Petewilson
Contributor
3 years ago

RegExp not selecting the FullName item I expected

I have a script, where i am trying to find and click a menu item, on a device in the BitBar cloud. Application is written in Flutter if any of that makes any difference.   I have a RegExp part of m...
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rraghvani
Champion Level 3
3 years ago

I suggest you read through Understanding Web Object Identification and Object Models. 

 

Note, that FindElementByAccessibilityID method returns the first found object that matches the condition in the tree structure of Process("uk.co.rpssoftware.designer.anglian")

 

You need to get the correct Parent for FindElementByAccessibilityID to work.

 

Also, I think your coding is incorrect, as your Find method looks like this (if you remove all the other stuff),

target = parentLevel.Find("FullName", "regexp:FindElementByAccessibilityId\(\"Cornice\\n\"\)*", 20000);

Try something like this,

target = parentLevel.Find("FullName", "Cornice\\n", 100);

 

 

 

 

  • Petewilson's avatar
    Petewilson
    Contributor
    3 years ago

    I was attepting to do something like was in the RegExp help page (https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/misc/regular-expressions.html)

     

      // Get Notepad's main window by using a regular expressio

     

     

    window = notepad.Find("WndCaption", "regexp:.* Notepad", 5);

     

     

     

    so i didn't have to put the entire FullName for every menu option. I've used the Name attribute in the end

     

     

     

    target = parentLevel.Find("Name", "StaticText\(\"" + Cornice + "\\n\"\)", 100);

     

     

     

    which works but doesn't explain why the regexp, like below didn't work 

    target = parentLevel.Find("Name", "regexp:.*Cornice*", 100);