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sergi's avatar
sergi
Contributor
11 years ago

Use FindChild for MenuItems with "_" in WPControlText

Hi,

I want to use built-in FindChild function to find the items in the application menu.

I'm trying the following tod o it the following way:



Sys.Process("ApplicationNmae").FindChild(new Array("ClrClassName", "WPFControlText"), new Array("MenuItem", "File"))



The problem is that the WPControlText is actually "_File" instead of "File".



Has anyone any idea of how to overcome this? (I can't provide beforehand the position of "_" character).

  • Ryan_Moran's avatar
    Ryan_Moran
    11 years ago
    Ok so I do something similar to this but I have a pretty length set of procedures to find items by text so I'll keep it as simple as I can.



    Sys.Process("ApplicationNmae").FindChild(new Array("ClrClassName", "WPFControlText"), new Array("MenuItem", "*"))



    Return all objects into an array and check the MenuItem property of each item individually stripping the _ and any other invalid characters from the value.



    Not sure what language you are using but I can provide an example if you'd like.
  • Ryan_Moran's avatar
    Ryan_Moran
    Valued Contributor
    11 years ago
    Ok so I do something similar to this but I have a pretty length set of procedures to find items by text so I'll keep it as simple as I can.



    Sys.Process("ApplicationNmae").FindChild(new Array("ClrClassName", "WPFControlText"), new Array("MenuItem", "*"))



    Return all objects into an array and check the MenuItem property of each item individually stripping the _ and any other invalid characters from the value.



    Not sure what language you are using but I can provide an example if you'd like.
  • sergi's avatar
    sergi
    Contributor
    11 years ago
    Hi Ryan,

    Nice suggestion. I hadn't seen FindAllChildren function.



    I wanted something more straightforward, but this actually just adds a for loop which shouldn't have many iterations in the worst case scenario..



    I'm using JScript. If you want to share your code, maybe you are doing it better and more users can benefit from it.
  • sergi's avatar
    sergi
    Contributor
    11 years ago
    Hi Chris,

    not really since the underscore character can be anywhere, not only at the begining..

    I have for example "Save _As" instead of "Save As".

    This is due to key accelerators..
  • sergi's avatar
    sergi
    Contributor
    11 years ago
    Hi Tanya,

    The problem is that the "_" character can be anywhere.



    The closest I've got is adding a '*' between each character of the original string.



    Ex. "File" -> "*F*i*l*e*"

    This works but not always and I'd rather use a cleaner and more robust solution.
  • TanyaYatskovska's avatar
    TanyaYatskovska
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    11 years ago

    Hi Sergi,


     


    In this case you need to use more reliable properties (whose values aren't changed) to identify the object.


     

  • sergi's avatar
    sergi
    Contributor
    11 years ago
    Unfortunately I have no other way..



    There are a couple of tweaks the FindChild function could help and would solve my problem here.



    a) If I could use "?F?i?l?e?" instead of "*F*i*l*e".



    b) If I could use something like..



    myObject.FindChild('WPControlText.replace("_","")', 'File')
  • Ryan_Moran's avatar
    Ryan_Moran
    Valued Contributor
    11 years ago
    Perhaps:

    "Save ?As"



    I believe the question mark ? is a valid wild card in the FindChild method.



  • sergi's avatar
    sergi
    Contributor
    11 years ago
    Again, the "_" can be anywhere.



    The input of the function needs to be "Save As" and it has to return the same object in the following cases:



    WPFControlText = "_Save As"

    ... = "Save _As"

    ... "S_ave As"



    etc.