Nathan_G
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Reged: 10/10/12
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We have a custom grid control that is drawn on the screen. None of the cells inherit from FrameworkElement. Up until now we have been using Custom Extensions to automate this control but we want to use a better strategy for our future releases. We considered AutomationPeers; however, after investigating TestComplete's UIA objects and the support for AutomationPeers it seems like it doesn't allow for much, if any, customization. "...if your application implements a custom provider exposing specific properties, they will not be available to TestComplete." I saw this in a SmartBear doc titled "Using Microsoft UI Automation Technology - Overview". That seems to be true, but it also doesn't seem to be possible to expose any methods or properties in even the standard providers written by Microsoft.
What I mean by this is, in my scenario, I have a custom automation peer class that inherits AutomationPeer and implements a standard provider like IScrollItemProvider. In TestComplete I can see the UIA object and all the standard AutomationPeer properties but none of the IScrollItemProvider properties or methods. I understand that a custom provider like ICustomProvider wouldn't work, but why wouldn't the standard ones work? Am I missing something or is this just not supported?
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libin1234
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Reged: 10/24/12
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Even i am facing a similar issue.I have automated almost everything in a WPF application except a custom grid using MS UI Automation in VBA.UI spy is not exposing any of the control patterns in a custom grid.
Below link may help you out
http://mechanicalhandshake.blogspot.com/2011/01/retrieving-wpfgrid-cell-values-using.html
Regards
Libin Sebastian
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Nathan_G
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Reged: 10/10/12
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This solution is for QTP not TestComplete. I am trying to avoid solutions like this anyway. If I have to write code to expose standard providers for custom peers then I may as well just write a bunch of TestComplete extension methods for all our custom control needs, but I'm trying to avoid this as well.
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libin1234
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Reged: 10/24/12
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My Automation team is doing some R&D on identifying custom controls using Excel VBA.So far we couldn't make much progress as VBA doesn't support Oops concept. I will keep you posted with the progress from my end.
Any posts on your progress would be appreciated
Regards
Libin Sebastian
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Nathan_G
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No one from the Test Complete dev team has an answer to this? I realize the UIA support only comes from a plug in but even so it seems like it's pretty incomplete if it's not capable of doing something simple like this. It's been a month since the OP and we need to decide how we will approach automating this custom control.
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Tanya_SmartBear
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Reged: 03/21/11
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Hi Nathan,
As far as I know, you've contacted our Support team regarding this question. They requested a sample application on which they can investigate this behavior. Could you please send it to them?
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