Testcomplete doesn't recognize browser objects, but recognizes non-browser objects.
When I use the spy tool TestComplete can only recognize the whole browser page, I tried on chrome, edge and mozilla. However when I switch to a virtual machine it works properly and ...
Are your browser versions the same on your laptop and virtual machine?
The latest Chrome, Edge browsers have been causing issues for the ObjectSpy.
Be careful here in case you do have older browser version son your VM versus a newer version on your laptop. Checking the About in the browser auto updates and I do not want you to lose your VM working browsers.
If you are launching the browser via TestedApps, you might need to include the command line parameter to include your browser profile. Otherwise the browser extensions will be excluded.
do i have those processes running? yes, although they look different on my task manager that what your screenshot shows
is the smartbear extension installed? Yes. it looks like this (Version 14.0.0).
I'm launching the browser with Run Browser in the Item column and Chrome in the Operation column and my applications credentials URL in the Value column. i did as eykxas suggested and added chrome as a generic tested app. however, when i expand the object tree for a very brief time i can start to expand the Page (some url) entry as shown in this screenshot
but a few seconds later it vanishes down to just this
and all i'm left with is the BrowserWindow(0) in the tree.
i don't know if i mentioned this before but I began having to "fix" these automation scripts because all of a sudden all of the originally recorded ClickItem operations related to selecting something from a drop down box began failing and the only solution I could come up with was to replace them with the Keys operation with a value that reflected the first letter of the desired selection. of course, if there were multiple sections starting with the same letter my keys would have to look something like this:
Keys("SSS")
to get to the third selection starting with "S". In one case where i needed to select a prior to the current year (which appeared as the default value in the drop down) I had to use Keys("[Up]") because trying to enter Keys("22222.....") would have just gotten me eventually to the year 3000 before looping back to 2000 and going up again. As i was trying to fix those i started seeing a bunch of other object mappings that were no longer recognized from the original keyword test recordings
so if anyone know anything about why that might have started happening several weeks ago (and what would make ClickItem work again) that might be a better solution to my issue. Anyone?
