ListItem with scrolbar ctrl key : Automation API

[rj-nora]

Hello at this moment i needed to select 4 diferents items from a ListItem whith a scrolbar, using the recorder and it fails ...I haved to use user code to do that... Whith the Recorder i need to use the ctrl key to select the items but when i playback it fails...Exist any problem when recording drag the scrolbar with the control [ctrl] key pressed? I have to press the control key [ctrl] to select diferents items on the listItems....but i playback Ranorex makes very strange moves....
So i used that code, but the problem is the ctrl key....

[Ciege]

So what you'll need here is the following.
1) A list of items you want to click (I use a string array).
2) The listbox object .
3) The scroll bar object.

Once you have those you can loop through your items you want to click using a foreach. If this is your first item in the list, do a regular click else for each successive item to a control click.

The following is code I use to multi select values in a grid but you can change it just a bit to do multi select in a list box. Pay attention to the click section at the end for an idea of using the control key for multi select.

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public static int MultipleClickCellsInTable(Ranorex.Form RanorexFormName, Ranorex.Table HDTable, string[] strCellsTEXTToClick)
{
    try
    {
        HDTable.EnsureVisible();
        Ranorex.ScrollBar HDScrollBar = null;
        Ranorex.Button PageUp = null;
        Ranorex.Button PageDown = null;
        Ranorex.Button LineDown = null;

        RanorexFormName.Activate();

        //Get Parent Element
        Ranorex.Core.Element parentElement = HDTable.Element.Parent;

        //Check for the Vertical Scroll bar
        try
        {
            HDScrollBar = parentElement.FindSingle(".//element[@controltypename='VCrkScrollBar']/scrollbar[@accessiblename='scroll bar']", 30000);
            PageUp = HDScrollBar.FindSingle(".//button[@accessiblename='Page Up']", 30000);
            PageDown = HDScrollBar.FindSingle(".//button[@accessiblename='Page Down']", 30000);
            LineDown = HDScrollBar.FindSingle(".//button[@accessiblename='Line Down']", 30000);

            //Scroll to Top
            while (HDScrollBar.Value != 0)
            {
                PageUp.Click();
            }
        }
        catch (RanorexException e)
        {
            //No vertical Scroll Bar
        }

        RanorexFormName.Activate();
        int intItemCount = 0;
        foreach (string celltext in strCellsTEXTToClick)
        {
            //Search for the Resource Requested
            Ranorex.Cell RanorexCell = TableCellReturnCellObject(HDTable, celltext, "Resource Code");
            if (RanorexCell == null)
            {
                Report.Failure("Requested Resourece: " + celltext + " was not found in the Table.");
                return -1;
            }

            //Verify the Cell is Visible
            if (RanorexCell.Visible.ToString() == "False")
            {
                while (HDScrollBar.Value != 0)
                {
                    PageUp.Click();
                }
                while (RanorexCell.Visible.ToString() == "False")
                {
                    PageDown.Click();
                    Thread.Sleep(500);
                }
            }
            //Click the Cell
            Report.Debug("Left Clicking cell " + RanorexCell.Element.GetAttributeValue("AccessibleName").ToString());
            if (intItemCount > 0)
            {
                Keyboard.Press("{ControlKey DOWN}");
                RanorexCell.Click(Location.UpperCenter);
                Keyboard.Press("{ControlKey UP}");
            }
            else
            {
                RanorexCell.Click(Location.UpperCenter);
            }

            intItemCount++;
        }
        return 0;
    }
    catch (RanorexException e)
    {
        return -1;
    }
}

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[Support Team]

Exist any problem when recording drag the scrolbar with the control [ctrl] key pressed?

No, we don't know of an issue for such an action. Actually, I just tried to record selecting multiple items in a list using mouse and the Ctrl-key and did not have any problems - neither at selecting items, nor at scrolling.

To hold down the Ctrl-key just use the following two lines of code (see the documentation of the Mouse class):

Keyboard.Down(Keys.ControlKey);
// perform the mouse actions
Keyboard.Up(Keys.ControlKey);

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team

[rj-nora]

Exist any problem when recording drag the scrolbar with the control [ctrl] key pressed?

No, we don't know of an issue for such an action. Actually, I just tried to record selecting multiple items in a list using mouse and the Ctrl-key and did not have any problems - neither at selecting items, nor at scrolling.

To hold down the Ctrl-key just use the following two lines of code (see the documentation of the Mouse class):

Keyboard.Down(Keys.ControlKey);
// perform the mouse actions
Keyboard.Up(Keys.ControlKey);

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team

Thank you Ciege and Support Team , but when i use the control key while recording, after stop the action that appears is a SomeIndicator(Item Name) on the Record Tool, and when i playback the mouse lost its way selecting the items...For example selects the first one and after click down on ctrl key the action saved has the item name SomeIndicator instead of the normal action of drag the scrolbar down....