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with ComboBox, how to open up list or just select an item

 
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jasong



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:23 pm    Post subject: with ComboBox, how to open up list or just select an item
Two related questions:
Given a combo box, how do you select an item from the dropdown list without expanding the list?

To avoid location changes, how can you open up the list of items?

Here is what the recorder generated:
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control = Ranorex.ControlFindChildControlName(parent, "cboCtsClient")
    if control == 0:
        return 1
    Ranorex.ControlSetFocus(control);
    controlElement = Ranorex.ControlGetElement(control)
    if controlElement == None:
        return 1

    element = Ranorex.ElementFindChildLocation(controlElement, 43, "Open", "", 296, 320)
    if element == None:
        return 1

However, the use of a location is very dangerous for reuse.

I tried the following in place of ElementFindChildLocation but it returned None.
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element = Ranorex.ElementFindChild(controlElement, 43, "Open", "WindowsForms10.COMBOBOX.app2", Ranorex.MATCH_SUBSTRING)


Am I using the right approach?
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jasong



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:28 pm    Post subject:
I am also having the same problem with selecting tabs.

Is there a way to avoid using the location?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:56 pm    Post subject:
Quote:
Is there a way to avoid using the location?


Yes, you can also use the ElementFindChild function with the same arguments but without positions.

Use the:
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element = Ranorex.ElementFindChild(controlElement, 43, "Open", "");


instead of:

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element = Ranorex.ElementFindChildLocation(controlElement, 43, "Open", "", 296, 320);


But if you have two controls with the same Role, Name and ClassName, then you will get the first one without positions.

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jasong



Joined: 26 Oct 2007
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Location: Texas
PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:00 pm    Post subject:
Thank you, this is working great.

One thing I noticed with another tool was that it enumerated duplicates like you mentioned using an underscore.

so it would be control, control_2, control_3
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:02 pm    Post subject:
You can enumerate all elements with the same Role as follows:

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itemCount = Ranorex.ElementFindChildren(element, Ranorex.ROLE_SYSTEM_CHECKBUTTON)

for index in range(0,itemCount):
    child= Ranorex.ElementGetChildFieldItem(index)
    if child == None:
        print 'Cannot read child' + str(index)
        continue;
    print 'child item =' + child[2]


If you only want to read the third child, you can do the following:


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itemCount = Ranorex.ElementFindChildren(element, Ranorex.ROLE_SYSTEM_CHECKBUTTON)
child= Ranorex.ElementGetChildFieldItem(2)  # third child


You can also read all elements with a specified Role and Name as follows:
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itemCount = Ranorex.ElementFindChildren(element, Ranorex.ROLE_SYSTEM_CHECKBUTTON, 'ndNode', "", Ranorex.MATCH_SUBSTRING)
for index in range(0,itemCount):
    child= Ranorex.ElementGetChildFieldItem(index)
    if child == None:
        print 'Cannot read child' + str(index)
        continue;
    print 'child item =' + child[2]


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