FindSingle with Flash page

[jlowder]

Hello,

I just started using Ranorex and would like to use the FindSingle method to gain access to an object in my Flash website based on it's text caption. The objects change dynamically with each load so I'm finding use of the repository to be problematic and was hoping the FindSingle method could help. I have the following two lines:

Ranorex.FlexElement browser = Host.Local.FindSingle("/dom[@pageurl='http://localhost/RanorexLoader.swf?rxta ... derVue.swf']");
Ranorex.Text location = browser.FindSingle("/text[@caption='Parse_in.txt']");

I receive the following error when run:

Ranorex.CapabilityNotSupportedException: The element does not support the required capability 'flexelement'.
at Ranorex.Adapter.AssertRequiredCapabilities()
at Ranorex.Adapter..ctor(Element element)
at Ranorex.FlexElement.op_Implicit(Element element)
at SourceExtract.Program.Main(String[] args) in c:\QA\RanorexAutomation\Gen2\SourceExtract\SourceExtract\Program.cs:line 46

I have tried both FlexElement and FlexObject with the same result. What is the proper way to use this in this case?

Thanks,

Jason

[Support Team]

Ranorex.CapabilityNotSupportedException: The element does not support the required capability 'flexelement'.

That exception is thrown if the element for the path you specified does not provide the capability for the adapter you want to assign it to. Please read the following section in the Ranorex User Guide that explains Ranorex GUI adapters in detail: http://www.ranorex.com/support/user-gui ... apter.html

I have tried both FlexElement and FlexObject with the same result. What is the proper way to use this in this case?

From the path you used ("/dom[@pageurl='http://localhost/RanorexLoader.swf?rxta ... derVue.swf']"), I guess the right adapter is WebDocument. Usually, flex objects are not top-level elements, but reside inside a web document. So you need to adapt your path to get you the root of your flex application. You can easily check get that path by spying your flex application using Ranorex Spy!

Another thing I noticed in your code is that you have a "/" at the front path that should be relative:

Ranorex.Text location = browser.FindSingle("/text[@caption='Parse_in.txt']");

When you search relatively inside an element, you must not have a slash ("/") at the front of the path, otherwise Ranorex will interpret that path as an absolute one. See the following topic in the Ranorex User Guide for more info: http://www.ranorex.com/support/user-gui ... xpath.html

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Support Team

[jlowder]

Hi Alex,

Where would one obtain a list of all the GUI adaptors?

I'll give what you suggest a shot.

Thanks,

Jason

[Support Team]

Where would one obtain a list of all the GUI adaptors?

When you track an element with Ranorex Spy, you see in the "General" tab all the adapters that element supports, see the corresponding section in the Ranorex User Guide:
http://www.ranorex.com/support/user-gui ... apter.html

You can find a list of all possible adapters in the API documentation when you look at the classes inheriting from the Adapter class (see http://www.ranorex.com/Documentation/Ra ... dapter.htm). However, you should not need that complete list of all adapters, since typically you are only interested in the adapters an element provides, which are shown by the "General" tab of Ranorex Spy.

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Support Team