White or black application window when using Spy
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:16 pm
I have the strange problem that all controls inside the application window diappear when I try to locate them using Ranorex Spy (the same happens with Spy++ .. the only difference is that with Spy++ the background seems to always become white while with Ranorex Spy it sometimes becomes black ).
I attached two images to ilustrate what this looks like.
The problem can be reproduced with different WPF applications (WinForms seems to be working fine).
When the mouse cursor hovers over the controls they become visible again (as shown in picture with black application background).
The preview pictures of the elements inside Ranorex Spy are either completely black or white and clicking "Update Element Data" always causes the controls to disappear.
"Highlight Element" seems to not affect the state of the controls at all (if they were visible before they stay visible and if they were not, the position where they should be is getting highlighted (that´s what I did in the picture with the white application background)).
I should also mention, that I´m currently evaluating Ranorex 4.1.1 and therefore using it inside a VM (with VMwarePlayer, Win7 x32 and verry limited HW ressources).
Thanks and best regards
Samuel
I attached two images to ilustrate what this looks like.
The problem can be reproduced with different WPF applications (WinForms seems to be working fine).
When the mouse cursor hovers over the controls they become visible again (as shown in picture with black application background).
The preview pictures of the elements inside Ranorex Spy are either completely black or white and clicking "Update Element Data" always causes the controls to disappear.
"Highlight Element" seems to not affect the state of the controls at all (if they were visible before they stay visible and if they were not, the position where they should be is getting highlighted (that´s what I did in the picture with the white application background)).
I should also mention, that I´m currently evaluating Ranorex 4.1.1 and therefore using it inside a VM (with VMwarePlayer, Win7 x32 and verry limited HW ressources).
Thanks and best regards
Samuel