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joscva
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9 months ago
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What to do when UI element can't be selected by TC in a Keyword test?

I need to close a window of our Desktop Application, but the close box is inaccessible to TestComplete.  Object Spy can't see it, it only sees the entire window. I found that I can directly call the...
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    joscva
    9 months ago

    Got it!  Invoking the close method directly just wouldn't work, but manually typing Alt-F4 does invoke a window close in such a way, that the "yes" button is perfectly clickable without issue.  So I can't type text *after* this state has been entered, but as long as it's not entered in the first place, then all is fine.  I still don't understand why the direct method call wouldn't work, but at least I can move forward.

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Hassan_Ballan
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9 months ago

If TestComplete can interact with the Yes/No buttons perhaps finding the parent may be the window that TestComplete cannot interact with.

Not sure I have any input on this and maybe you can work around it by simulations user keyboard keys rather then mouse clicks.

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joscva
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9 months ago

Funny you mention that - that was exactly the first alternative I tried, simply typing "Enter".  It also doesn't work... TC is just completely unable to do anything once the close method has been called.  It won't ever time out either, it will just sit forever, waiting for... something.

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    joscva
    Contributor
    9 months ago

    Got it!  Invoking the close method directly just wouldn't work, but manually typing Alt-F4 does invoke a window close in such a way, that the "yes" button is perfectly clickable without issue.  So I can't type text *after* this state has been entered, but as long as it's not entered in the first place, then all is fine.  I still don't understand why the direct method call wouldn't work, but at least I can move forward.

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      rraghvani
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      9 months ago

      Depending on the technology your application uses, you may have to enable MSAA which might expose more objects to TestComplete, to interact with.

      Enabling MSAA to expose the TitleBar object of Notepad++