IFrame or Frame don't have a ready state? : Automation API

[Aracknid]

If I have a WebDocument object, I can check its ReadyState property to see if it is complete, interactive, loading, etc...

Frames and IFrames can also have a state, at least in IE based on some old code I'm trying to port. I cannot see how to check a Frame or iFrame's state with Ranorex. Is this possible? See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534359(v=vs.85).aspx

So what happens is when I click something in my App, the IFrame starts to load, and I need to check something in the IFrame once it has completed loading. Because I'm trying to write a generic function, which will be called from many different places, and the IFrame will not always display the same things (it will never be a consistent UI) I cannot look for something that will always be there (a common solution for AJAX).

Aracknid

[Support Team]

Hi,

Would it be possible to post us a small sample project with source code? Currently I can find not HTML attribute which supports this. Are you using HTML 5?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Peter
Ranorex Team

[Aracknid]

I should have said I'm checking the WebDocument's "State", which I assume is the same thing as the ReadyState as provided in the URL.

Sorry, I cannot provide a small sample app. The app I'm testing is HTML 5 (basically).

Maybe what I should have asked is, you have a State property for WebDocument objects. Why not for other objects, like Frame and IFrame?

Is there another way to achieve what I am trying to do?

Thanks,

Aracknid

[Support Team]

Hi,

Unfortunately HTML 5 is not yet supported by Ranorex but other than that the IFrame or Frame has no such properties yet, because it is not a DOM object and at the moment only the DOM object offers such a property.
I added this as feature request and we will see what we can do to offer such a functionality.
At the moment you have to find a way how you can check if the IFrame/Frame was loaded.

One solution could be that you try to search for more than one element in your IFrame/Frame and if one of them was found you know that the Frame was loaded correctly.

Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team

[Aracknid]

One solution could be that you try to search for more than one element in your IFrame/Frame and if one of them was found you know that the Frame was loaded correctly.

Is there a way to look for many different items all at the same time, and if any one of them is present to stop looking? Typically, what I have been doing is looking for object A for a second. If not there, looking for Object B for a second, etc.. Eventually after looking for a group of objects, I'll try again (in a loop) fo a total amount of time.

Aracknid

[Aracknid]

Unfortunately HTML 5 is not yet supported by Ranorex

When will HTML 5 support be added?

[Support Team]

Hi,

This was just a mix up. HTML 5 is already supported, but not all tags and attributes.

Regards,
Peter
Ranorex Team