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simonaferrara
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5 years ago

The dispatchEvent browser method doesn't work

Hi all,   in a web test (I'm using JavaScript), I want to use the "dispatchEvent" browser method to dispatch a browser-specific event or a custom event created on the browser.   As simple example...
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simonaferrara
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5 years ago

Thanks Marsha_R , I had already though to initialize a variable as a new "Event" (as in the example that you've linked), but Test Complete doesn't recognize the DOM "Event" class. When I run the test, the following Javascript runtime error is displayed: "ReferenceError: Event is not defined". 

There could be some configurations to be done on the project, or something that could be referenced by the project, to have the DOM classes visible?