Get property values from controls

[Japise]

Hi,

Been trying to get the 'Widht'-property from a object inheriting from a System.Windows.Forms.Control using the GetValue action in the recorder, but it just returns null?

Can this be achieved or do we need to write user methods for retrieving such properties? Examples?

/Best reards
Jari

[Support Team]

Hi Japise,

Normally it should not be a problem to access this property. From which object to you retrieve the “Width”-property? Please check your object. Maybe the value of the property is zero?

If have created a small sample where I retrieve the width of a “CheckBox”. Stored the value in a variable and logged it to the Report.

GetWidthProperty.png

Regards,
Robert

[Japise]

I'm trying to fetch the value from a column header (Thirdparty grid called flexgrid). The value I'm interested in is the Size property found in the detail tab. Getting null when trying to reference it in the GetValue method Assumed it was a control based on the properties in the detail section.

/J

[KurtZ]

I think you are getting null because "Size" as you have highlighted in your screen print is just redisplaying the width and height properties. If you switch to the Overview tab, you will probably see the Size property is blank.

You need to get the Width and Height directly as Robert shows in his screen print. You can also modify your code with something like:

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Cell.Element.GetAttributeValue("width")

or

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Cell.Element.Size.Width

[Japise]

Thanks for the quick response! I tried the code and it seems that there's only the size property available in the class, since running:

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Cell.Element.GetAttributeValue("width")

returns null, while

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Cell.Element.Size.Width

returns the value.

I would guess that there is no support for accessing sub-properties by using the GetValue action (like "Size.Width")?. So this needs to be made a user method in this case.

/J

[AutomationTester]

Hai Japise,

You should use

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Cell.Element.GetAttributeValueText("width")

instead of Cell.Element.GetAttributeValue("width") to get the width.

GetAttributeValueText will retrieve the value of the attribute specified in the quotes.

Regards,
Amiruddin, Indium software - Automation COE