WPF Menu Selection

Likely the menu is changing or closing as the mouse leaves the menu area.

We experienced a similar issue when attempting to click a menu item in the file menu of our application. Because it was the first item in the list the mouse had to move from it's current position over File and cross over Edit. This meant that the Edit menu now opened up and the File menu closed, thus the menu item no longer existed.



You can attempt to click the lower right edge of the menu item. This usually helps to keep the mouse from traveling over other items during the click() method.



Edit: See code comments

 var popuproot,arrayproperties,arraypropertyvalues, menuitem, anotheritem; 


 popuproot = GetPopuproot();


 popuproot.Refresh();


 //searching for enabled items only


 arrayproperties= ["Enabled","ClrClassName","Header.DisplayName","ClrFullClassName"];


 arraypropertyvalues= [true,"XamMenuItem","Cars","Infragistics.Controls.Menus.XamMenuItem"];


 menuitem = popuproot.FindChild(arrayproperties,arraypropertyvalues,20);


 //clicking the bottom right edge of the menuitem to ensure mouse position is closest to the next possible flyout menu/menuitem


 menuitem.Click(menuitem.width - 1, menuitem.height - 1);


 Delay(100,"Waiting for menu to open...");


 arraypropertyvalues= [true,"XamMenuItem","BMW","Infragistics.Controls.Menus.XamMenuItem"];

 //maybe need to call GetPopuproot(); to get the correct parent object here


 anotheritem = menuitem.FindChild(arrayproperties,arraypropertyvalues,20); //also make sure the BMW item is actually a child of the menuitem!!!!


 anotheritem.Click(anotheritem.width - 1, anotheritem.height - 1);