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Able to identify objects, but cannot move mouse pointer to them

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answered on 02 Jun 2010, 08:18 PM

Thank you for your response.

The relevent bits of code are:

    
            Settings MySettings = new Settings(BrowserType.InternetExplorer, @"C:\log\");  
        
            Manager MyManager = new Manager(MySettings);  
        
            MyManager.Start();  
        
            MyManager.LaunchNewBrowser();  
        
            MyManager.ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo(ProjectVariables.ServerURL);  
        
            MyManager.ActiveBrowser.WaitUntilReady();  
        
            MyManager.ActiveBrowser.RefreshDomTree();  
        
            HtmlInputText UserElement = MyManager.ActiveBrowser.Find.ById<HtmlInputText>("<some string here>");  
        
            UserElement.ScrollToVisible();  
        
            UserElement.MouseHover();  
        
            UserElement.MouseClick();  
        
            Manager.Current.Desktop.KeyBoard.TypeText("<some string here>", 50);

I am able to identify the HtmlInputText element sucessfully, but the .ScrollToVisible, .MouseHover and .MouseClick do nothing. The mouse doesn't move at all. It's as if the browser isn't in focus within the web browser. If is use:

    
            UserElement.Text = "<some string here>";

then I am able to set the value of the element and the new value appears in the web page. So I definitely have control of the element.

I am not using the unit test infrastructure, but rather just the WebAii libraries for element identification and manipulation. Is there some other intialization that I need to be doing?

Greg

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answered on 04 Jun 2010, 03:58 PM

Hi Greg Schnider,

I did some experimentation using this code:

[TestMethod]

public void TestMethod1()

{

Settings MySettings = new Settings(BrowserType.InternetExplorer, @"C:\log\");

Manager MyManager = new Manager(MySettings);

MyManager.Start();

MyManager.LaunchNewBrowser();

MyManager.ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("http://www.bing.com");

//MyManager.ActiveBrowser.WaitUntilReady();

//MyManager.ActiveBrowser.RefreshDomTree();

HtmlInputText UserElement = MyManager.ActiveBrowser.Find.ById<HtmlInputText>("sb_form_q");

UserElement.ScrollToVisible();

UserElement.MouseHover();

UserElement.MouseClick();

Manager.Current.Desktop.KeyBoard.TypeText("<some string here>", 50);

}

What I found is that everything works as expected as long as I don't set a breakpoint after the NavigateTo call. If I set a breakpoint at MouseHover (for example), then when the breakpoint is hit, input focus is automatically taken away from the browser by Windows and given to Visual Studio so you can interact with Visual Studio. This makes everything break in the code after the breakpoint. You would have to add code to give focus back to the IE browser window after the breakpoint for it to start to work properly again.

Also, from your code sample, the WaitUntilReady and RefreshDomTree are redundant. The NavigateTo step does this automatically.

Greetings,
Cody
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answered on 04 Jun 2010, 05:47 PM

Hello Greg Schnider,

[TestMethod]

public void TestMethod1()

{

Settings MySettings = new Settings(BrowserType.InternetExplorer, @"C:\log\");

Manager MyManager = new Manager(MySettings);

MyManager.Start();

MyManager.LaunchNewBrowser();

MyManager.ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("http://www.bing.com");

//MyManager.ActiveBrowser.WaitUntilReady();

//MyManager.ActiveBrowser.RefreshDomTree();

HtmlInputText UserElement = MyManager.ActiveBrowser.Find.ById<HtmlInputText>("sb_form_q");

UserElement.ScrollToVisible();

MyManager.ActiveBrowser.Window.SetFocus();

UserElement.MouseHover();

UserElement.MouseClick();

Manager.Current.Desktop.KeyBoard.TypeText("<some string here>", 50);

}

Set your breakpoint on the SetFocus call. Then when you tell VS to resume execution, the browser window will immediately get focus back and the rest of the test can run as if nothing happened.

Regards,
Cody
the Telerik team

answered on 07 Jun 2010, 08:34 PM

webaiimousemoveapp.zip

Hi Greg Schnider,

Yes using the framework in an application is supported and works fine. I've attached a sample console application to demonstrate.

Best wishes,
Cody
the Telerik team

answered on 30 Jun 2010, 06:23 PM

Hello Greg Schnider,

I am glad to hear you are homing in on the problem. Something else to watch out for (may not be a problem in your case)... if you are developing on a 64bit machine the default project setting is for "Any CPU". That means it'll run as a 64bit app on a 64 bit machine and as a 32bit app on a 32bit machine and you'll get strange results. You have to explicitly set your configuration to build for x86 only.

Kind regards,
Cody
the Telerik team