Instrumentation Wizard, Flash/Flex, and Location of mm.cfg
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 6:03 am
Hi,
I installed Ranorex 5.4.0.24580 for the purposes of automating a Flex application today. After running the Instrumentation Wizard for Flash/Flex applications successfully, I was still greeted with the Ranorex Technology Limitation popup for Flash/Flex when I tried to use the Ranorex Spy with application.
One thing I noticed is that even with the TraceOutputFileEnable property set to 1 as described in http://www.ranorex.com/support/user-gui ... sting.html, the Debug Flash Player was not creating a log file in any browser I tried - IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
In this thread, http://www.ranorex.com/forum/windows-8- ... t5671.html, Markus (username: mebner) pointed out that the mm.cfg file should be in the %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% directory. This is further supported by Adobe's documentation for configuring the debug Flash player at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb ... layer.html.
The article in the Ranorex User Guide linked above says that the Instrumentation Wizard puts it into the %USERPROFILE% directory.
On the machine I was using (with 64-bit Windows 7 Professional), %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% and %USERPROFILE% resolve to two different locations:
- %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% points to a mapped network drive
- %USERPROFILE% points to %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\%USERNAME%
Once I moved the mm.cfg file from %USERPROFILE% to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, both Ranorex Spy and test execution from Ranorex Studio worked fine and the Flex elements were identified in all browsers.
On a clean VM with Windows 7, both of the paths resolve to %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\%USERNAME%.
@Support: While I have managed to get things working in my environment, would it an improvement for the Instrumentation Wizard to place the mm.cfg file in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% as opposed to %USERPROFILE%?
Thanks,
Gabriel
I installed Ranorex 5.4.0.24580 for the purposes of automating a Flex application today. After running the Instrumentation Wizard for Flash/Flex applications successfully, I was still greeted with the Ranorex Technology Limitation popup for Flash/Flex when I tried to use the Ranorex Spy with application.
One thing I noticed is that even with the TraceOutputFileEnable property set to 1 as described in http://www.ranorex.com/support/user-gui ... sting.html, the Debug Flash Player was not creating a log file in any browser I tried - IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
In this thread, http://www.ranorex.com/forum/windows-8- ... t5671.html, Markus (username: mebner) pointed out that the mm.cfg file should be in the %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% directory. This is further supported by Adobe's documentation for configuring the debug Flash player at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb ... layer.html.
The article in the Ranorex User Guide linked above says that the Instrumentation Wizard puts it into the %USERPROFILE% directory.
On the machine I was using (with 64-bit Windows 7 Professional), %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% and %USERPROFILE% resolve to two different locations:
- %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% points to a mapped network drive
- %USERPROFILE% points to %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\%USERNAME%
Once I moved the mm.cfg file from %USERPROFILE% to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, both Ranorex Spy and test execution from Ranorex Studio worked fine and the Flex elements were identified in all browsers.
On a clean VM with Windows 7, both of the paths resolve to %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\%USERNAME%.
@Support: While I have managed to get things working in my environment, would it an improvement for the Instrumentation Wizard to place the mm.cfg file in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% as opposed to %USERPROFILE%?
Thanks,
Gabriel