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matthew_morgan
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago

Unnamed WPF Objects

I have an application written using WPF that has a truely astonishing number of controls without native names (several hundred).  I read through the article pertaining to this subject (http://support....
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    leandropoblet
    11 years ago
    Hey so I just posted something similar on other threat.

    I'll repeat, but I think it's useful for you:



    I'm currently testing a WPF based application.



    I use a combination of both methods: whenever I can use 'NameMapping' I do, whenever I can't I use a function I made which receives the parent object (usually mapped name), property/ies and value/s and it handles zero, one and many objects found.



    So I use as much as I can the NameMappings. And whenever there's no useful property/value pairs to identify an object I grab the application code, name the objects myself and next build I'm ready to go.



    Cheers,

    Leandro
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matthew_morgan
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago
On one screen I have the following controls:

 - WPFObject("TextBox", "", 1)

 - WPFObject("TextBox", "", 2)

 - WPFObject("DropDownListBox", "", 3)

 - WPFObject("DropDownListBox", "", 3) (there are two of these, within seperate sub-screens, which becomes organizationally difficult though not impossible to handle using the approach I outlined above)

 - WPFObject("DateTimeControl", "", 2)



As far as I can tell there is no difference within the properties that I can access between these fields except their position on the screen.  I (as a human) know what they are only because the label next to them tells me.  I could possibly set up a system where I check the label next to control I want (e.g. WPFObject("DateTimeControl", "", 1)) which would tell the automation as well, but since the indexes get off when a different control is used (e.g. WPFObject("Label", "DOB", 7) is the label next to the DateTimeControl #1) I would need to step through all of the labels looking for the one with a similar 'Top' and similar 'Left + Width' to the control I am trying to manipulate...ugh.  On the screen I pulled up (one of many) there are 124 of these unnamed controls.