Need Spy Tool with Runtime licence : Automation Tools

[Pixi6s]

Any suggestions on what I should do? I need the Spy Tool but only have a Runtime licence on that machine.

On my development machine everything works, but on my runtime it doesn't. I am opening a PDF document and I just want to verify that a document opened (vrs a page not found) so very minimal checking. I have already ensured I have the same version of adobe reader installed and the same reader settings on both machines to the best of my ability.

I really want the spy tool to just see what Ranorex is seeing on that machine but it is not available to me. I am running out of debug options otherwise.

Any suggestions? I alternative tool maybe. Or can Ranorex help me out by giving me access to the spy even for a short time (i have already signed up for 2 trials via the web site in the past).

Thank you!

[Pixi6s]

Wow I think I actually got this working. So no longer priority but I am sure it will come up again so suggestions are still encouraged. Would have been nice to figure this out in a few hours instead of days.

[Ciege]

You got it working? Spy shouldnt work as a part of the runtime license... I wish it would...

You could use the following code to output information from a test script to see what Ranorex sees on a runtime machine:

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Ranorex.Core.ElementSnapshot snap = Ranorex.Core.ElementSnapshot.Capture(element, true);   
System.IO.File.WriteAllText("fileName.rxsnp", snap.SerializeXml()); 


[Support Team]

Wow I think I actually got this working.

You are able to start Ranorex Spy on a runtime machine? How did you managed that?

As ciege already suggested you can create a Ranorex Snapshot in your code. We have also an Automation Module for this. Therefore please take a look to following link create-snapshot-of-element-module-t2447.html

Regards,
Peter
Ranorex Team

[Pixi6s]

No I didn't, it told me I needed a licence. I got my code working, My trial and error finally worked!

Thanks for the code snippit!

[artur_gadomski]

I'm also missing Spy on a runtime licence. it actually wouldn't even need to be a full Spy just a 'debug' version that only allows spying, so that I could verify the paths.

[Support Team]

Hi,

I'm also missing Spy on a runtime licence.

We have noticed that the Spy is sometimes needed at test machines and we will discuss the need of the Spy for runtime licenses.

Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team

[Ciege]

We have noticed that the Spy is sometimes needed at test machines and we will discuss the need of the Spy for runtime licenses.

Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team

This has my vote!