I'm developing an application using C# 3.5 under windows form application. The problem is SpellCheck property is not available in textbox properties. I added PresentationFramework Assembly, System.Windows.Controls Namespace and System.Windows.Controls.Primitives Namespace, but still doesn't work. I'm trying to test the following example.
myTextBox.SpellCheck.IsEnabled = true;
any ideas ?...
You will probably need to use a 3rd party control to perform spell checking. I suspect that you would want to call the spell checker's CheckSpelling() method on specific key events like spaces, commas, periods, question marks, etc.
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Greetings and salutations!
I'm working on a UI automation project for a windows desktop app (FrameworkId: Win32)
Stack: Python (3.7) + Appium (1.15.1) + WinAppDriver (v1.1).
I have identified an element using Inspect.exe, but when I try to code, whatever I do I receive this error:
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.
The locator strategy I'm using is xpath:
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#LocalizedControlType='text' and #IsControlElement='false']")
As you can see, Inspect.exe has shown that it has the property "IsControlElement='false'", but I cannot for the life of me "access" it via code.
I would also like to point out that any elements that had the IsControlElement='true' are properly found and I can "interact" with them.
Thank you very much for your help!
Source of issue
This is probably an issue within Microsoft's UI Automation implementation in .NET.
The property IsControlElement should have returned true while it didn't.
From my tests, it seems to be an issue somewhere within UIAutomationCore.dll.
I speculate that the root cause is that the automation implementation was targeted for accessibility in mind, and they have mistakenly ignored some controls which are NOT readable (Image, Geometry, etc.).
Workaround for some cases
Try to use UI control from a type that has a text.
if it's already a textual control, try to use a different textual control type. for example - in WPF project - use Label instead of TextBlock
if it's NOT a textual element, if possible, wrap the control in a textual element. in WPF projects you can use a <Label Padding="0"> as a wrapper.
Other things to consider
Try to use UIAComWrapper
Related issues
https://stackoverflow.com/a/46452431/426315
UIAutomation won't retrieve children of an element
UI Automation - #32770 (Dialog) shows in Insepct.exe but not in VisualUIAVerifyNative.exe
Side Note
Since you haven't specified which Python GUI library are you using, I was not able to provide examples for your library. Sorry.
the problem is: my web application uses ZK, which automatically generates random UUID for each web element.
When I try to record some basic test-case with Selenium IDE, it automatically tries to use these randomly-generated ID's, without even giving me a good alternative.
Is there a way to forbid Selenium IDE to use IDs while locating elements?
Possible workaraounds:
Implement ID generator in ZK: I've thrown away this possibility, because the application GUI is too complex for this task, and ID should be unique for whole sesion, which make this workaraound really hard to implement, when you have same elements on different page.
Find another recording tool: I've only found XLT script developer, which does the work by writing DOM-path using classes (which zk gives plenty) - but sometimes the location strategy gives false path, which is then not reproducible. Any good alternatives here?
You can change locater builder by changing the order of the locater in options>locater builder.
For example if you want to give first preference to css: name drag it on the top so when you start recording it will first give the preference to css name
Hope this will help you
I have a D2006 app in which the DPR file has had numerous edits (yes, I know - you shouldn't mess with the DPR file) to accommodate such things as a splash screen, preventing a second instance of the app being started, handling of command line options that need to be processed before any forms are created, etc.
One day, I noticed that the auto-create forms list in the project options is empty - but the DPR file still has the code in there to create some of the forms.
If I try to restore all the forms that should be auto-created from the dialog, it complains Error - Call to Application->CreateForm is missing or incorrect and doesn't do anything.
How can I restore this connection - apart from rebuilding the DPR from scratch?
is it safe to manually add the CreateForm calls?
are there any documented rules as to what you can do in the DPR file?
I have a suspicion that try..except and if..else clauses in the DPR upset Delphi. Will moving as many functions as possible to a separate unit and calling them be helpful?
I haven't really seen any documented rules as to what you can do in the DPR file, because I guess there are no strict rules.
The problem begins when you create a "Forms" application. (No problems with console or non-GUI applications I've noticed).
The IDE will automatically change the DPR any time you add a new Form or a DataModule to it, by assuming you want to auto-create them.
This can mess up your DPR, if it has a lot of code/compiler-directives/if-blocks/try-catch blocks etc...
So I'll tell you what my rules are, and in a short line:
Keep it as simple as you can.
My DPR contains only a call to some init code and auto creates the main form only:
MyAppInit; // in AppInit unit
Application.Initialize;
Application.CreateForm(TMainForm, MainForm);
Application.Run;
However in the uses section I add (or keep what the IDE added) all the forms my application uses (and also application related units) - this is useful when I want to view->forms or view-units.
In-fact when I add a new form to the application, the first thing I do is go the DPR and remove the line:
Application.CreateForm(TMyNewForm, MyNewForm);
NOTE (EDIT): The IDE can be configured to NOT auto create forms (No Application.CreateForm entry will be created in the DPR). In older version of Delphi this option is under: Tools/Environment Options/Preferences -> Auto create forms. In newer versions: Tools/Options/VCL Designer/Module creation options -> Auto create forms & data modules.
At run-time, I create all my forms dynamically when I need them, and destroy them when they no longer needed. DataModules/Splash (etc...) are created on the MainForm.OnCreate event.
This method has worked for me nicely for the past few years maintaining a large scale DB application. This will probably not cover all cases, but it worked fine for my needs.
P.S: "Is it safe to manually add the CreateForm calls" - Yes. But think twice if you really need them to be auto-create by the application.
IMHO You don't really need that AutoCreate forms from Delphi, but maybe in the casual test project.
And the dpr is just another source code file, where you're meant to write code to make things happen (or prevent it to happen), so don't worry if you lost that sincronization, which IMHO is buggy if can't read your pascal code to work properly.
If you still want to create some forms from the DPR, add the Application.CreateForm or TMyForm.Create calls manually to the file, AFAIK there's no rules against doing it that way.
Since Delphi owns the .DPR, I put my startup logic into a separate unit for each project.
That works really well, only very few entries need to be in the .DPR.
Since that unit controls the Application.CreateForm logic too, the IDE has an empty list for that: I'm fine with that.
The only things left in the .DPR are:
the big uses that indicates which modules are part of your project
a call to Main in the startup logic unit
GWT auto generate the JavaScript code.
I could not understand the generated code event mechanism.
for instance, which function run when I click on a button?
I would love to see the javascript that GWT generates for button with explanations
For event handling, GWT attaches a EventListener (generally, your widget) as an expando property (called __listener) of the elements. The events are then all handled by a single dispatch method that looks at the __listener expando of the event's target and dispatches the event to it. Of course, the dispatch method does a bit more (event previewing, entry/finally scheduled commands, etc.)
This dance is (or at least was) required to avoid memory leaks in browsers (mainly IE). You can find more details in the GWT wiki: https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/DomEventsAndMemoryLeaks
When you develop in GWT, you don't care about JavaScript.
You should look at the Java code, and search for a function that handles the click event for your button.
When you compile the code Compiler will generate the autoamted Javascript functions ...And that too in compressed (thats depends on your compile type).
It is very hard to find the corresponding function and widget id because those are generated by compiler ..So its better to debug your gwt code is hosted mode ..
Even you want to read the generated code while compiling give the compilation type to
DETAILED, which improves on PRETTY with even more detail (such as very verbose variable names)
Still more details available here .
You should use GWT Compiler options STYLE whenever you need to understand the GWT's output js. GWT by default compresses and obfuscates the javascript output as it uses OBF as default value for STYLE.
To prevent compression and obfuscation you can use PRETTY or DETAILED as the parameter to STYLE argument.
NOTE: You should always use OBF mode for production as it ensures smallest bandwidth usage along with obfuscation.
Reference - https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideCompilingAndDebugging#DevGuideCompilerOptions
I'm developing a multilanguage application, and use routes with translated segments. For multilingual support I created special Multilingual plugin.
To use translated segments I need set translator for Zend_Controller_Router_Route before routes init. So only possible place for this in my plugin is routeStartup method, but there is one problem here - for determine right locale I need to use properties of request (Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract), like module, controller and action names, but they are not defined yet here in routeStartup method. They are already defined, for example, in routeShutdown - but I can't set translator for route there, because it have to be done before routes init.
So what can I do:
can I get request properties somehow in routeStartup
or can I re-setup translator later in routeShutdown
P.S: there is a question with exactly the same problem Zend_Controller_Router_Route: Could not find a translator, but proposed answers is not the option for me, because I can't just retrieve language code from url with Regex, I have much more complicated code to define right language code.
Thanks.
What about putting your code in preDispatch? That's what I personally do when I need to check if the person is logged in. Maybe you can move your code there too?