Hello -I have a class/control called UltraListView that I select items from. Unfortunately, the only way I can get TC to click an item within is to use a SetFocus method like:Aliases.catalogUltraListView.SetFocusThe minor downside is in the log after the script has run there is an error listed: "The window cannot get focus."So, TC is telling me that the SetFocus method failed, yet it succeeded in that TC was able to select an item in the UltraListView control because of the use of SetFocus. What I'd like to do is either surpress the error message or find an alternate to SetFocus. Thanks in advance.Chris

Hi, Usually, the "unable to find the object" JavaScript/JScript error means that the parent object (e.g. BrowserWindow3) was not identified by TestComplete. If TestComplete has not identified BrowserWindow3 object, then it (TestComplete) does not wrap it with helper functions (and SetFocus() is one of these functions). In this case TestComplete passes BrowserWindow3.SetFocus() expression to JavaScript/JScript runtime as is. JavaScript/JScript runtime tries to resolve SetFocus() according to its regular rules, fails (as such object cannot be resolved indeed) and posts runtime error. So, on the first place, I would recommend to check in the debugger if BrowserWindow3 object was resolved by TestComplete. This can be done, for example, by checking if BrowserWindow3.Exists equals to true. Another point that I remember (though it is from an old times and is desktop-application related) is that SetFocus() is applicable for the controls that can be focused (i.e. highlighted with the cursor put in the field). Windows, on the other hand, could be activated (via BrowserWindow3.Activate() ), but not focused.

Hi Chris,TestComplete provides extended support for Infragistics UltraListView controls. It provides special methods and properties that let you perform various operations over the controls. For example, you can use the extended ClickItem method to simulate a mouse click on a specified list item. For more information, please read http://smartbear.com/support/viewarticle/11643/ in the online documentation.

Hello MargaretI've read the documentation you referenced. The Infragistics Controls Support plug-in is installed. The ClrFullClassName property name of this obect is Infragistics.Win.UltraWinListView.UltraListView and is already listed in the Infragistics Controls | UltraListView group of my project’s Object Mapping options. Thus I'm able to use methods like ClickItem. The issue (and again it's more of an annoyance than anything else) that still persists is that when using SetFocus:Aliases.catalogUltraListView.SetFocusAn error appears in the log: "The window cannot get focus."Perhaps it's a timing issue in that the catalogUltraListView object isn't ready to be focused. I'll try and put a delay before it and see if that does anything.Chris

Hi Chris,Does the same error occur if you try to call the SetFocus method for other controls on the form?Also, to help us investigate the problem, please follow the steps below:1. Paste the following code to your script after the SetFocus method call:Log.Picture(Sys.Desktop);Log.Message(Sys.Desktop.FocusedWindow().Handle) ;Log.Message(Sys.Desktop.FocusedWindow().FullName);2. Run the test.3. After the test run is over, capture a screenshot of the test log and send it to us.

Hi Margaret, I've incorporated the code below into one of my scripts and uploaded a screenshot of the log file after it ran. I use VBScipt not JScript so I'm not sure if the syntax is correct. Anyway, check out the screenshot of the log file.Log.Picture(Sys.Desktop)Log.Message(Sys.Desktop.FocusedWindow().Handle) Log.Message(Sys.Desktop.FocusedWindow().FullName)Although I'm running a keyword test, here's the code I used (or would use if I converted the keyword test to a script: Call Aliases.vendorComboBox.SetFocus Call Aliases.vendorComboBox.ClickItem("VENDOR 9")Your question: Does the same error occur if you try to call the SetFocus method for other controls on the form?Yes, the example above is a combo-box.

SetFocus producing an error in the log report.

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Abramova
Staff
13 years ago
Hi Chris,

TestComplete provides extended support for Infragistics UltraListView controls. It provides special methods and properties that let you perform various operations over the controls. For example, you can use the extended ClickItem method to simulate a mouse click on a specified list item. For more information, please read http://smartbear.com/support/viewarticle/11643/ in the online documentation.
ChrisMac
Contributor
13 years ago
Hello Margaret

I've read the documentation you referenced. The Infragistics Controls Support plug-in is installed. The ClrFullClassName property name of this obect is Infragistics.Win.UltraWinListView.UltraListView and is already listed in the Infragistics Controls | UltraListView group of my project’s Object Mapping options. Thus I'm able to use methods like ClickItem. The issue (and again it's more of an annoyance than anything else) that still persists is that when using SetFocus:

Aliases.catalogUltraListView.SetFocus

An error appears in the log: "The window cannot get focus."

Perhaps it's a timing issue in that the catalogUltraListView object isn't ready to be focused. I'll try and put a delay before it and see if that does anything.

Chris
Abramova
Staff
13 years ago
Hi Chris,

Does the same error occur if you try to call the SetFocus method for other controls on the form?

Also, to help us investigate the problem, please follow the steps below:

1. Paste the following code to your script after the SetFocus method call:

Log.Picture(Sys.Desktop);

Log.Message(Sys.Desktop.FocusedWindow().Handle) ;

Log.Message(Sys.Desktop.FocusedWindow().FullName);

2. Run the test.

3. After the test run is over, capture a screenshot of the test log and send it to us.
ChrisMac
Contributor
13 years ago
Hi Margaret,

I've incorporated the code below into one of my scripts and uploaded a screenshot of the log file after it ran. I use VBScipt not JScript so I'm not sure if the syntax is correct. Anyway, check out the screenshot of the log file.

Log.Picture(Sys.Desktop)

Log.Message(Sys.Desktop.FocusedWindow().Handle)

Log.Message(Sys.Desktop.FocusedWindow().FullName)

Although I'm running a keyword test, here's the code I used (or would use if I converted the keyword test to a script:

Call Aliases.vendorComboBox.SetFocus

Call Aliases.vendorComboBox.ClickItem("VENDOR 9")

Your question: Does the same error occur if you try to call the SetFocus method for other controls on the form?

Yes, the example above is a combo-box.
Abramova
Staff
13 years ago
Hi,

As far as I can see from the screenshot, when TestComplete tries to set a focus to the combo box, the application handles this and sets the focus to the WinFormsObject("buttonFindLibItems") object. It is difficult to understand why this happens without the tested application. Could you please send us the application under test and the test project you are using via the Contact Support form?
- roytberA
  Occasional Contributor
  7 years ago
  Hi,
  
  I am having the same issue now, the object got focus and the test is running fine but the error message says "Unable to find the object SetFocus. "
  
  When using SetFocus() with window(code below), there is no error message.
  Aliases.browser.BrowserWindow3.SetFocus();
  
  Here is my code, I have tried the solution mentioned in this post. The delay doesn't work, and FullName is the name of the object that got focused. How do I disable the error message??
  
  aqUtils.Delay (2000, "delay to click");
  globalObjects.chooseAfile.SetFocus();
  Log.Message(Sys.Desktop.FocusedWindow().FullName);
  - tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    7 years ago
    roytberA wrote:
    
    Hi,
    
    I am having the same issue now, the object got focus and the test is running fine but the error message says "Unable to find the object SetFocus. "
    
    When using SetFocus() with window(code below), there is no error message.
    
    Aliases.browser.BrowserWindow3.SetFocus();
    
    Here is my code, I have tried the solution mentioned in this post. The delay doesn't work, and FullName is the name of the object that got focused. How do I disable the error message??
    
    aqUtils.Delay (2000, "delay to click");
    globalObjects.chooseAfile.SetFocus();
    Log.Message(Sys.Desktop.FocusedWindow().FullName);
    
    Note that the OP is a different general source of the issue and is also 4 years old. There have been numerous updates to TestComplete since then as well as different ways of handling things. The original post is in a desktop application where as your situation seems to involve web applications.
    
    I have a question concerning your post... you are trying to set focus on the browser window instead of some component or page within your web application. What are you intending to achieve? Please describe what you are trying to implement and any information such as application type (WEB vs Desktop), technologies used in the app, screenshots of the objects in question using Object Spy and/or object browser, etc.

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