AbsolutePath property does not return absolute path : Automation API

[sintom]

Hi,

I have following example source code:

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if (!repo.MenuBarExplorer.ButtonUpdaterInfo.AbsolutePath.IsAbsolute)
              throw new RanorexException("PATH IS NOT ABSOLUTE!");

Button Updater is an SysTry icon. It is set to always visble.

Above code should throw exception when returned path is not absolute... and it throws.
The path which I get starts without slash:

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menubar[@processname='explorer']/container[@caption='' and @controlid='303']/container/toolbar/button[@text='Updater']

With Ranorex Spy I can find the button but only if I add missing slash (means make absolute path).

Anyway my question is: Is this mean that AbsolutePath has a bug and does not returns Absolute path?

I have Ranorex 3.0.5.

[sintom]

I have found reason why systray icon was not found and fixed it. Anyway I still have quesetion why AbsolutePath does not return absoulte path?

[Support Team]

Hi,

What is the exact aim you want to achieve with this "if"-statement?

Is this mean that AbsolutePath has a bug and does not returns Absolute path?

The path is absolute (but here with ButtonUpdaterInfo.AbsolutePath without slash - because of some interne reasons).

Please update your Ranorex to the latest version. Then the spy will also find your path without a slash.

Kind Regards,
Larissa
Ranorex Support Team

[sintom]

Hi,

What is the exact aim you want to achieve with this "if"-statement?

This "if"-statement is only for the testing purpose. If I have property AbsolutePath which resturns RxPath object (absoulte path) I would expect that when I invoke IsAbsolute then I get True. But the returned value in this case is False which (for me) means that this is not absolute path.

When I look on Absolute Path of some repository elemenet in the Ranorex Studio i can se that the path starts with a slash "/".

Anyway I implemented method which expects absolute path as an input. Thus at the beginnig it checks if it is absolute or not. If not it throws exception:

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private bool FindApplicationUpdaterIcon(RxPath path, out Ranorex.Button appUpdaterBtn)
        {
           if (!path.IsAbsolute)
              throw new RanorexException("Not absolute path! Path:" + path.ToString());

What I noticed about paths is that when it starts with slash then IsAbsolute returns true in other case it returns false.

Anyway I noticed that i do not really need absolute path because I want to search some controls on my local host. Thus if I use not absolute path I must(?) give a context from which the searching starts. In my case Host.Local.TryFindSingle the Host.Local is the context. Thus the controls can be found.

I was not able to find the control as I was not covered all cases of text attribute which it can have.

Summary - I was able to solve my issue but I'm still surprised that when I use some_controlInfo.AbsolutePath.IsAbsolute I get False