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VasilyM
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13 years ago

TestComplete doen't see DataWindow elements

Hi all,



I started to use the trial version of TestComplete 9 to test a PowerBuilder (11.5) application and faced a problem that TC doen't see elements of DataWindow. I found two topics on how to resolve this issue (http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/170435/ and http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/30464/), and I walked through all the instructions, but TC still can not distinguish the structure of DataWindow. How can I resolve it or where was I wrong?



Note: I gave unique Assignable Names to all the columns of DataWindow and controllers of the window.





Thank you.

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  • AlexeyKolosov's avatar
    AlexeyKolosov
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    13 years ago
    Hi Vasily,

    I have responded to your support case concerning this problem. Here is a copy of my reply for those who are interested:



    The behavior you observe can be an issue with Power Builder's implementation of the MSAA support. I think so, because some time ago we received a similar problem report from one of our customers, and that issue turned out to be a problem with Power Builder. There are two ways to check our assumption: you can either send us a sample application so that we could reproduce the problem here, or you can use Microsoft's  AccExplorer32.exe utility and see whether it displays the same information as the information displayed by TestComplete.



    Anyway, as your application is a .NET application, you can try working with its native properties and methods: select WinFormsObject("WinDataWindow", "none") in the Object Browser panel, and investigate the list of available items in the Properties and Methods panes.