Recent update: 2008-3-21
HiThere is one excel sheet where some values are in cells and some controls present on sheet like button, checkbox, datafilter button. I want to click the button that is on excel sheet from another application may be C# based code application. I tried but unable to click on button. I can access ...
Almost all downlevel components and APIs from Vista are now available on Windows XP SP2. When will UI Automation be available? Or is it installed with the Windows SDK?
If I view a Table object (Infragistics) with UI Spy, it lists the rows as expected. However, when I use the Treewalker and navigate down to the Table object, the rows do not exist where they do in the UI Spy. If I use the parent windows AutomationElement and use the Findfirst() method using the ...
Hi,I have a user control devloped to dispaly the information in a calender fashion. The funcrion of this control is to draw the date and time slider with the graph along with it. Bu this control is not recognizable with one of our tool.Can any one please let mw know what could go wrong if any ...
Hi guys, I was wondering, how is the automation ID retrieved? Is this done via a certain Windows API call? I was wondering because functions that I have used in an application doesn't return any id, just numbers... I use Getwindowlong with GWL_ID. Thanks, Nick
I am trying to find out whether or not it is a best practice to set Automation properties (AutomationId, HelpText, Name) for WPF controls as a standard development procedure. It doesnt appear that you need to define these properties unless you are creating a custom control, and that in their ...
Hi Congratulations of the new forum, it should be a great thing to have. I just wanted to know - is there a way of preventing or limitting UI Automation access to an application?
Hi guys,I'm having a problem with the invoke functionality.I made a small test application which contains one button.The code in the click event is the following:Thread.Sleep(1000);MessageBox.Show("MSGBOX1","MSGBOX1");Now from my other application that uses UIAutomation, I click the button ...
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staja2 at 2008-2-25
I was hoping to automate FireFox, but I am unable to navigate to certain controls. UI Spy is also unable to navigate to the controls and gives the following exception:UI Automation tree navigation is broken. The parent of one of the descendants exist but the descendant is not the child of the ...
Hi,I am playing around with WPF and Automation trying to do the following.Application A: Display a WPF window with a Button. The button has a handler - when clicked you get a message box.Application B: Automation Controller (unit test). The code starts an in instance of A, and programatically ...
hi,Is UI Automation possible for any application ..I tried the delegates based on patterns & events on IE 6.0 xp . SP2 .. It more or less works ..But when i tried on Outlook Express with same delegates .. Many delegates doesn't response .. Selection Pattern , ToggleSatepatterns etc... Plz ...
Hi All, I've been playing around with the UI Automation API and I found that the Invoke automation event does not work for WinForms applications. I'm running Vista Beta 2 with VS .NET 2005. The WinForms app as well as the app using UI Automation are both built using VS .NET 2005. The ...
I am currently trying to figure out how the new UIAutmation works. I tried the "Hello World" approach, i.e. the (almost) simplest possible example wich uses UIAutmation to simply click a WPF Button. The Apps UI looks like this:<Window x:Class="UIAutomationTest.Window1" ...
Hi, I was amazed to see that it takes plenty of time (~100-200ms) to for GetNextSibling (of TreeWalker) in HTML,so if i am going through 400 siblings it takes forever.it is also happens if i use element.FindAll. Does anyone know what can i do to avoid this. Thanks in ...
I am trying to write an automation provider for a collectionof radio buttons in a WPF application. The help files seem to indicate that Ishould implement a selection provider pattern for the collection, which wouldmean that the Radio Buttons support the Selection Item provider pattern. ...
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akuhad at 2008-2-19
hi, plz help me to automate the radio button in WPF. plz give me some code so that i can select the radio button in WPF application. there is not any good help availble in msdn for this. i need it urgently. plz plz help.
hi,Is UI Automation possible for any application ..I tried the delegates based on patterns & events on IE 6.0 xp . SP2 .. It more or less works ..But when i tried on Outlook Express with same delegates .. Many delegates doesn't response .. Selection Pattern , ToggleSatepatterns etc... Plz ...
hi,Is UI Automation possible for any application ..I tried the delegates based on patterns & events on IE 6.0 xp . SP2 .. It more or less works ..But when i tried on Outlook Express with same delegates .. Many delegates doesn't response .. Selection Pattern , ToggleSatepatterns etc... Plz ...
I am trying to write an automation provider for a collection of radio buttons in a WPF application. The help files seem to indicate that I should implement a selection provider pattern for the collection, which would mean that the Radio Buttons support the Selection Item provider pattern. ...
I am currently trying to figure out how the new UIAutmation works. I tried the "Hello World" approach, i.e. the (almost) simplest possible example wich uses UIAutmation to simply click a WPF Button. The Apps UI looks like this:<Window x:Class="UIAutomationTest.Window1" ...
Hi,i am working on a framework for automated testing. In a special case i need to obtain the Font information of a label. In UIA this is not implemented so i thought i am going to implement a ClientSideProvider for my special case. But i cannot obtain access to the control in my ProviderClass. ...
I am trying to write an automation provider for a collectionof radio buttons in a WPF application. The help files seem to indicate that Ishould implement a selection provider pattern for the collection, which wouldmean that the Radio Buttons support the Selection Item provider pattern. ...
HiUI Automation (as of Vista RC1) seems to have a problem with identifying the "chevron" item on a command bar (the arrows that you see when IE menu is too long for the window).This problem can be seen when using UI Spy - there is no element for the chevron item.When using Active ...
Hi All ,I am Working on UI Automation and i am trying to acess each and every control and its related information ( Say name , Control type ) .. Now when when i click on hyperlink then on StructureChangeEvent i get the Controltype as "Pane" .. What is the issue ? ... Though Hyperlink ...
Hi, I'm trying to right click the tray icon of our Software from the C# code. Using the MAUI library I could obtain the tray window. Now I'm not able to obtain the specific icon in the window. Can anybody help me out. -Manu
Hi guys,The last CTP i was using, was the may CTP. With this version I had the problem that the name property was not filled in for any controls. It was always empty.Now I installed the july CTP and the problem still exists...Does anyone else have this problem? Is this a know issue?Note: When ...
I am using Mita to do some development, which is dependent on UI Automation. MitaSpy exposes properties of my control as ControlType.Document and supported patterns as Scroll. The classname being displayed as richedit.The control doesn't support the text pattern.This is occuring only on a ...
Hi guys,I'm having a problem with the invoke functionality.I made a small test application which contains one button.The code in the click event is the following:Thread.Sleep(1000);MessageBox.Show("MSGBOX1","MSGBOX1");Now from my other application that uses UIAutomation, I click the button ...
Hi guys,I'm having a problem with the invoke functionality.I made a small test application which contains one button.The code in the click event is the following:Thread.Sleep(1000);MessageBox.Show("MSGBOX1","MSGBOX1");Now from my other application that uses UIAutomation, I click the button ...
My application is used to provide accessibility in other applications. I need to be able to drive input in other applications using Journal Playback Hooks. From the documentation it seems as if what I want is to include the uiAccess=true flag in the application manifest.However, when I use that ...
I want to access elements which are dinamically generated through a template:I define the following ListBox <ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource contactsView}}" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,100,70,160" Name="listBox1" ...
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JLutz at 2008-2-10
Hi all,I have a question about thread synchronization and UI automation.Say I have a GUI application and an automation program similar to the one in the TreeWalker sample in the SDK documentation. Now say that in my automation program, I start up the GUI app by using the methods in the Process ...
I am using Mita to do some development, which is dependent on UI Automation. MitaSpy exposes properties of my control as ControlType.Document and supported patterns as Scroll. The classname being displayed as richedit.The control doesn't support the text pattern.This is occuring only on a ...
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XML_JR at 2008-2-8
Hello,In my UI automation, I have a code which gets me the inner HTML of the page. I save that in a string variable strXml. When I do a View source of that page.... the HTML is well-formed and has all the tags and double quotes etc..... as shown ...
Note: I have tried this with both the June and July CTP bits.Background: This issue occurs and the end of a succesful drag and drop operation between two XAML windows. The source is a treeview that contains a Button control (could be another kind of control object, but I don't think it matters ...
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Shete at 2008-2-7
Hi, I am planning to develop tests in MITA. MITA is dependent on UIAutomation framework. But I saw winfx is supported on winxp-sp2, wso3-sp1 and onwards. Is it that UIAutomation is not at all supported on w2k, ws03-rtm? Can someone please confirm on this?thanks in advance,Shriram ...
Note: I have tried this with both the June and July CTP bits.Background: This issue occurs and the end of a succesful drag and drop operation between two XAML windows. The source is a treeview that contains a Button control (could be another kind of control object, but I don't think it matters ...
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JLutz at 2008-2-7
Hello all,I have a question regarding the TreeWalker sample and UI automation in general.Say, for example, I have a UI that contains several panes, with the automation ID's BrowsePane1, BrowsePane2, ..., etc, and I want to retrieve all of these. Assuming that I have an AutomationElement ...
HiWe have an automation software which detects Windows built-in control according to their ids.We noticed that on Windows Vista build 5472, the ids are were totally changed comparing to the ids in Vista beta 2 and earlier. Is it not correct to rely on the ids? Is there a better way to identify ...
Hi guys,The last CTP i was using, was the may CTP. With this version I had the problem that the name property was not filled in for any controls. It was always empty.Now I installed the july CTP and the problem still exists...Does anyone else have this problem? Is this a know issue?Note: When ...
I am trying to write an automation provider for a collectionof radio buttons in a WPF application. The help files seem to indicate that Ishould implement a selection provider pattern for the collection, which wouldmean that the Radio Buttons support the Selection Item provider pattern. ...
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JLutz at 2008-2-5
Hello all,I have a question regarding the TreeWalker sample and UI automation in general.Say, for example, I have a UI that contains several panes, with the automation ID's BrowsePane1, BrowsePane2, ..., etc, and I want to retrieve all of these. Assuming that I have an AutomationElement ...
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XML_JR at 2008-2-4
Hello,In my UI automation, I have a code which gets me the inner HTML of the page. I save that in a string variable strXml. When I do a View source of that page.... the HTML is well-formed and has all the tags and double quotes etc..... as shown ...
HiWe have an automation software which detects Windows built-in control according to their ids.We noticed that on Windows Vista build 5472, the ids are were totally changed comparing to the ids in Vista beta 2 and earlier. Is it not correct to rely on the ids? Is there a better way to identify ...
I am trying to write an automation provider for a collectionof radio buttons in a WPF application. The help files seem to indicate that Ishould implement a selection provider pattern for the collection, which wouldmean that the Radio Buttons support the Selection Item provider pattern. ...
I want to access elements which are dinamically generated through a template:I define the following ListBox <ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource contactsView}}" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,100,70,160" Name="listBox1" ...
Hi guys,The last CTP i was using, was the may CTP. With this version I had the problem that the name property was not filled in for any controls. It was always empty.Now I installed the july CTP and the problem still exists...Does anyone else have this problem? Is this a know issue?Note: When ...
I'm the very newbie in this field. I'm looking for some resources about WPF UI Automation. So far I could just find the SDK help, which isn't meant as a starting point, and a couple of PDC presentations which give an useful overview but don't really help getting your feet wet.I couldn't ...
Hi!My problem is that MenuStrip does not appear in UISpy. I generated asimple WinForms application (not using WinFx), then put a menu strip atthe bottom of the Form. The menu lookes like this: | File | Help | .Clicking on the File, a drop-down menu appears with Exit1 and Exit2 items in it. ...
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ryams at 2008-2-2
Hello, I am Developing a tool.for that i created instance of VS IDE(see code ). The problem is i have to Remove the Menubar and toolbar from that IDE. I am not getting how to move forward. i am new to this programming.can any one help me by giving u r suggestions and samples related to ...