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ioioio
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago
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Construct a object if I know the object name

Hi,   I have the following call:   Call Aliases.browser.page.formForm0.radiobutton1YearSubscription.ClickButton where radiobutton1YearSubscription is a radio button in a form. In the same form i...
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    AlexKaras
    8 years ago

    Hi,

     

    All scripting languages have an equivalent of the evaluate() or eval() function that accepts a string, executes it as code and returns a result.

    The code for your case will be like that (VBScript pseudocode that should be adjusted to match the language used in your project):

    ...
BTNy = "radiobutton1YearSubscription"
...

strObjAlias = aqString.Format("Aliases.browser.page.formForm0.%s", BTNy)
Set oObj = Evaluate(strObjAlias)
If (oObj.Exists) Then
  Call oObj.ClickButton()
Else
  ...
End If
AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
8 years ago

Hi,

 

All scripting languages have an equivalent of the evaluate() or eval() function that accepts a string, executes it as code and returns a result.

The code for your case will be like that (VBScript pseudocode that should be adjusted to match the language used in your project):

...
BTNy = "radiobutton1YearSubscription"
...

strObjAlias = aqString.Format("Aliases.browser.page.formForm0.%s", BTNy)
Set oObj = Evaluate(strObjAlias)
If (oObj.Exists) Then
  Call oObj.ClickButton()
Else
  ...
End If