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4 years ago

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Object Spy doesn't focus on dropdown arrow of the desktop application

Hi Everyone, I try to spy on drop down arrow of a desktop application built using power builder 12.5 but it doesn't find it. I have tried ClickItem(), wIsdropdownopened function etc but nothing wo...

Reshail
4 years ago
Hi Preker,

Alex has given you some good suggestions. Just for the sake of something different you can also look into the image based testing. You can add this dropdown arrow in your image repository and click on it through this approach. Here is a doc to help you out.
https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/image-based/about.html

Reshail

Contributor

Hi Preker,

Alex has given you some good suggestions. Just for the sake of something different you can also look into the image based testing. You can add this dropdown arrow in your image repository and click on it through this approach. Here is a doc to help you out.

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/image-based/about.html

Marsha_R

Champion Level 3

4 years ago

You may also be able to traverse the values in the drop down with out actually opening it. Look in the Advanced view of Object Spy for a value that has an index and that could give you the drop down values directly.

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