Hi Web Application we are trying to Automate has a grid which as per Spy is Canvas Object. Object Spy can only see the whole Canvas as one object and cant see anything at row level or Cell level. Does anyone give some suggestion how we can do get to cell or Row level . Some Ideas that I already thought about are : 1 . Doing Coordinate based scripting . for Example , Call canvas.Click(237, 31) . This is not a option for us because contents of grid going to be dynamic and we have to lookup some text and then select the Cell.2. Another some what vague options suggested to be is , if Developer Open up some methods for given canvas object and then we access row or columns

I suspect you've had it I'm afraid. Child count .... 0. Very few extended properties. Looks like it's just a plain old image file. Not sure if the grid properties will be stored in another object somewhere (devs could probably tell you that) else, in which case you may get lucky. But if they draw it all to a canvas, and then present the canvas to the front end as a single image, I doubt you'll get anything else useful from it as an object. You could probably do something clever with image finding for the checkboxes and OCR for the text. But better so see if the grid is stored elsewhere first.

Colin_McCrae wrote: Looks like it's just a plain old image file. Not sure if the grid properties will be stored in another object somewhere (devs could probably tell you that) else, in which case you may get lucky. But if they draw it all to a canvas, and then present the canvas to the front end as a single image, I doubt you'll get anything else useful from it as an object. You could probably do something clever with image finding for the checkboxes and OCR for the text. But better so see if the grid is stored elsewhere first. Colin nailed it down. While it's possible to render HTML into Canvas (it's rendered as an image), it might be that the real table object is somewhere else, and it's just overlapped by the canvas. Check other objects in the Object Browser and see if maybe one of them is the actual table. Or maybe the grid data is stored in a global JavaScript variable on the page -- in this case you can access it as pageObj.contentDocument.Script.variableName. If nothing else works, your only options are OCR and image search.

Hi,Can you try exploring your grid in TC’s Object Browser to identify what properties/methods you can use. To make sure that you see all available properties, switch to the Advanced View mode. Please refer to the "Basic and Advanced View Modes" ( http://smartbear.com/viewarticle/55599/ ) help topic for details. You can try thisGo to Tools ->Current Project Properties ->Select Object Mapping- > Expand Java FX controls add your canvas class name and check. Not sure under which item you need to add(someone from Smartbear or your dev can shed some light on this). Please refer to the article below which gives info about list of supported JavaFx controls https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/general-info/supported-technologies/controls/javafx.html Also can you please provide snapshot of your object spy on the particular control in the advanced view mode and show the list of available properties and methods. AlexKaras HKosova Is there any workaround or mechanism to work with Java Canvas controls using testcomplete

Hi mspatel In continuation to my previous reply add your java fx class name under Tools->CurrentProjectProperties->OpenApplications->JavaFx . Click on Add button and add your canvas class(ex: javafx.scene.canvas.Canvas) .Click on the checkboxes under active column for the canvas class and click on derived classes checkbox. Save the project refresh object browser. Hope this might be of some help. Refer to the screenshot attached

I'm not sure about the JavaFX version, but Canvas objects in Delphi (where I have to work with them) are essentially just an image file. It has no child nodes or objects. All the "controls" (which are just part of the one large image) within it are all virtualized and use a reference file. I can't extract anything much useful from the Canvas itself. I ended up having to use OCR to do some basic checks against it. But, thankfully, I don't have to interact with it too much. Maybe it's different for JavaFX ones. But they do still appear to be drawn objects. The support article for Java FX doesn't mention Canvas as being a class supported by TestComplete, so if it is an image, you may not get much more out of it. https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/general-info/supported-technologies/controls/javafx.html#supported-classes

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sanjay0288
Frequent Contributor
8 years ago
Hi,
Can you try exploring your grid in TC’s Object Browser to identify what properties/methods you can use. To make sure that you see all available properties, switch to the Advanced View mode. Please refer to the "Basic and Advanced View Modes" ( http://smartbear.com/viewarticle/55599/ ) help topic for details.

You can try this
Go to Tools ->Current Project Properties ->Select Object Mapping- > Expand Java FX controls add your canvas class name and check. Not sure under which item you need to add(someone from Smartbear or your dev can shed some light on this).
Please refer to the article below which gives info about list of supported JavaFx controls https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/general-info/supported-technologies/controls/javafx.html

Also can you please provide snapshot of your object spy on the particular control in the advanced view mode and show the list of available properties and methods.

AlexKaras HKosova
Is there any workaround or mechanism to work with Java Canvas controls using testcomplete
- sanjay0288
  Frequent Contributor
  8 years ago
  Hi mspatel
  In continuation to my previous reply add your java fx class name under
  
  Tools->CurrentProjectProperties->OpenApplications->JavaFx . Click on Add button and add your canvas class(ex: javafx.scene.canvas.Canvas) .Click on the checkboxes under active column for the canvas class and click on derived classes checkbox. Save the project refresh object browser. Hope this might be of some help.
  
  Refer to the screenshot attached
  - Colin_McCrae
    Community Hero
    8 years ago
    I'm not sure about the JavaFX version, but Canvas objects in Delphi (where I have to work with them) are essentially just an image file. It has no child nodes or objects. All the "controls" (which are just part of the one large image) within it are all virtualized and use a reference file. I can't extract anything much useful from the Canvas itself.
    
    I ended up having to use OCR to do some basic checks against it. But, thankfully, I don't have to interact with it too much.
    
    Maybe it's different for JavaFX ones. But they do still appear to be drawn objects.
    
    The support article for Java FX doesn't mention Canvas as being a class supported by TestComplete, so if it is an image, you may not get much more out of it.
    
    https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/general-info/supported-technologies/controls/javafx.html#supported-classes
HKosova
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
8 years ago
Hi mspatel,

What's your app type - is it a regular web app or JavaFX as others suggested? Is the grid created using a third-party component (if so, which one)? Could you please post an Object Browser screenshot showing the grid object and its properties in the Advanced view?
- mspatel
  Contributor
  8 years ago
  Hi,
  
  -- Yes it is Web Application HKosova
  -- I Tried Approach suggested by sanjay0288but didnt make any difference
  -- I have attached Advanced Property View and Advanced Methods View
  
  CORRECTION :
  Attched Properties screenshot. Sorry about that
  - Colin_McCrae
    Community Hero
    8 years ago
    They're both methods screenshots? ;)
    
    (And they don't look promising ..... but we'll wait for the properties one ....)

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