Issue in Identifying/Fetching the PropertyGrid Data

Hi,

According to your screenshots, you are trying to work not with the PropertyGrid control itself, but with its child element - PropertyGridView.

By modifying the Object Mapping options, you made TestComplete recognize PropertyGridView as PropertyGrid and add the extended properties, such as wItems, wValue, etc., to this element. However, TestComplete does not provide such extended properties for PropertyGridView. You can only use these properties and methods to work with PropertyGrid.

To work with PropertyGridView, you can use the standard properties and methods that TestComplete adds to all on-screen objects and the control's internal properties and methods. The internal properties and methods are displayed in .NET, the Protected and Public categories are displayed in the Object Browser (these properties and methods are presented in the document you attached.)

P.S. In your case, to work with the PropertyGrid and PropertyGridView objects, there is no need to modify the ObjectMapping options.

Hi Abdul,

Try working not with PropertyGridView, but with the PropertyGrid control. Using PropertyGrid's extended properties, you can access data of the PropertyGrid control, namely, the data displayed in the PropertyGridView element. For example, by using the wItems property, you can access a certain item displayed in the PropertyGridView element.

Hi,

Information online articles provide is actual for the latest version of TestComplete.

However, TestComplete 7.20 supports Microsoft PropertyGid controls in the same way as TestComplete 8.60 does. So, the wItems property described in the article can be used to work with PropertyGrid controls in TestComplete 7.20 as well.

Abdul,

I think Caption is not the property that returns the item's label.

I'd suggest that you explore your application in the Object Browser and use the properties the Object Browser displays.

You didn't write what PropertyGrid control you were using, so I tried to reproduce the problem with the standard Microsoft .NET PropertyGrid control (see image 1).

On my computer everything worked fine.

Here is how you can get the caption and value of the BackgroundImageLayout property. I attached screenshots that illustrate each step.

* Launch your application and select the PropertyGrid control in the Object Browser panel. You will see the wItems, wItemCount and other properties on the right (see image 2). As you can see, in my case wItems is 6, which means PropertyGrid has 6 top-level items (Accessibility, Appearance, Behavior, etc.) To get access to the grid's items, use the wItems property.

* Click the Params button of the wItems property and specify the index of the desired item, say 2 (image 3).

TestComplete will display the word (Object) as the wItems property's value. Click the ellipsis button (image 4).

* TestComplete will display properties of an object that provides a test interface to the item data (image 5).

* To get labels (caption) of child items, use the wLabels property. To get values, use wValues. For instance, the BackgroundImageLayout item is the third child of the Appearance item. So, to access it, use index 2 (indexes are zero-based, the first item has index 0, the second - 1, the third - 2, and so on). See image 6.

Hope this helps. :-)