RadGridView / UI Automation

[Hassan]

Hi,
I do manage to execute a number of action with UI Automation against a radGridView such as:
 - Creating a new row
- Reading the content of a cell
But I really don't understand how one could write in a cell. Using Snoop, I can see that before you select a cell, its underlying control is a TextBlock and only when you click on the cell, you get a TextBox. Which automation patterns do you use to click on a given cell?
My goal is to simulate a click on the cell, the get access to the underlying TextBox in order to change its content.
Please let me know if this can be done.

Thank you in advance,
Hassan

[Ivan Ivanov]

Hello Hassan,

1. The easiest way to add a new row in a RadGridView utilizing its automation tree is to use the GridViewNewRowAutomationPeer instance and use the IInvokeProvider.Invoke() method.
2. GridViewCell's automation peer implements the IValueProvider automatation pattern, so that you can use the IValueProvider.SetValue method, as long as the respective cell is in edit mode.

As a side note, please let me ask you to confirm which version of RadControls you are currently using.

All the best,
Ivan Ivanov
the Telerik team

[Hassan]

you wrote:

"GridViewCell's automation peer implements the IValueProvider automatation pattern, so that you can use the IValueProvider.SetValue method, as long as the respective cell is in edit mode."

That's the problem, I can't find how to click on the cell programmatically (which object/pattern) to make it editable. Instead, I only get a Textblock when I expect a TextBox.
Regards,
Hassan

[Ivan Ivanov]

Hello,

With the current version you can accomplish this through GridViewCellAutomationPeer's Owner. However, as this might not be a good solution for all the possible scenarios, we will implement IInvokeProvider on the GridVIewCellAutomationPeer type, so that no visual tree elements are involved in the process. This change should be available with our next Q release.

Regards,
Ivan Ivanov
the Telerik team