Check if buttom hides a TcxTreeList column

[strp]

Hello,

I am trying to check wether a specific button successfully hides a specific column "MyColumn" in a grid. I am performing a keyword test and I do not want to make it screenshot based.

I have a path, lets say Aliases.MyProcess.catalogue 

This has several properties, for example:

ClassName = TcxTreeList

ObjectType = VCLObject

wColumn, with wColumn(0) = "MyColumn" and wColumn(1) = "DontCareAbout" and "wColumn(2) = "DontCareAbout2" ..

wRowCount = 3

Now I want to check wether a button hides "MyColumn".

First I assumed that I could access that specific column and check its .visible property using a Property Checkpoint, but either this is not an option here or I am using it wrong. I cannot access the that column specificly.

The desired architecture of my test looks as follows:

Set button to checked state

Property Checkpoint: get MyColumn.visible, expecting it to be True

set button to unchecked state

Property Checkpoint: get MyColumn.visible, expecting it to be False

Can someone help?

best,

s.

[NisHera]

Seeing "VLCObject " I assume that you are testing a Dev Express grid...

In Dev Express grid, there is a property something like  Aliases......TcxGridSite.GridView.VisibleColumnCount

you can use that in your test

you can get column name using     Aliases......TcxGridSite.GridView.VisibleColumns(i).VisibleCaption

where i is column number

so get number of visible column to a variable x

loop through 0 to x comparing visible caption to your caption  "DontCareAbout"

if found, column is visible else not visible

[strp]

If there would be a property like this, I would have used it.

There is AbsoluteCount, AbsoluteItems, AbsoluteVisibleCount and AbsoluteVisibleItems - but they all refer to items in the grid.

There is indeed wColumn (with wColumn(0) as the one I care about) and wColumnCount = 25, but they do not change no matter if I hide this or more columns.

[Colin_McCrae]

I don't have any examples of this particular control I can look at. but looking at the Dev Express docs (those I can find anyway - they don't make them easy to find!) it looks like these List controls (this is a List, not a Grid) should have a "Styles" property? Not sure if that applies to the whole list, or is on a column by column basis.

Sounds to me like the kind of property that may contain visibility info?

Is anything like that present on your control? 

[HKosova]

Hi strp,

Try something like

cxTreeList.Bands.Items(bandIndex).Columns(colIndex).Visible