UI Automation... SendKeys not working

[Stefan]

Hi,

I create UI tests for our WPF Desktop App.
For this I use the WinAppDriver from Microsoft.
Everything works fine, excepting "SendKeys" to AutoCompleteBox.

 

m_session.FindElementByAccessibilityId("AutoComlpleteBoxID").Click();   // Works ... I see the input cursor inside the box

m_session.FindElementByAccessibilityId("AutoComlpleteBoxID").SendKeys("12345"); // Works not !

Exception:
An unknown error occurred in the remote end while processing the command.

Any Idea why it happens.
With a standard WPF textbox it works.

Regards
Stefan

[Stefan]

Maybe the problem is that the property for the text is not text... it's SearchText.
But there must be  a way to use it, or not ?

[Vladimir Stoyanov]

Hello Stefan,

Thank you for the provided code snippet. 

In order to achieve what you are going for, you can find the RadWatermarkTextBox inside the RadAutoCompleteBox and invoke the SendKeys method on it. Here is some sample code:

var watermark= session.FindElementByAccessibilityId("AutoComlpleteBoxID").FindElementByClassName("RadWatermarkTextBox");
watermark.Click();
watermark.SendKeys("12345");

Can you give this a try on your end and let me know how if goes?

I am looking forward to your reply.

Regards,
Vladimir Stoyanov
Progress Telerik