Issues of robustness, stability and you shouldn't do this aside, has anyone ever filled in a windows credential prompt via code (so that's one that looks like this:)
Is it possible to interact with these dialog boxes through Win32 APIs, or using SendKeys/send mouse / UI Automation? Any ideas / tips anyone has would be greatly appreciated!
I ended up using the UI Automation framework, which allowed me to grab a reference to the credential prompt and then fill it out and complete it that way.
Code snippet:
AutomationElement desktop = AutomationElement.RootElement;
//get all windows on the desktop
AutomationElementCollection windows = desktop.FindAll(TreeScope.Descendants, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Window));
foreach (AutomationElement window in windows)
{
if (window.Current.ClassName.Equals("#32770")) //security dialog
{
// access the appropriate AutomationElements to enter credentials here
}
}
To interact with an element, you grab the appropriate Pattern object and call its methods (eg Textboxes have a ValuePattern which has a .SetValue() method.
I also used UISpy to find all the values for things like ClassNames, AutomationIds, etc to help find the correct item through .FindAll() and PropertyConditions objects.
Use something like AHK (Auto HotKey) it is a simple language that can be compiled to an EXE and is designed for automating the keyboard and mouse.
Or you could do it from WPF:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/6fc7f1f6-f3e2-4b32-9d2b-9c7a2680e04a/
Or users could simply tick "Remember my credentials"
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I run r via rstudio using Windows, however, when I run the following code
library(tcltk)
tcltk::tk_messageBox(title = "Confirm",
message = "message",
icon = "question", type = "yesno",
default = "yes")
The messagebox is hiding behind the Rstudio, and I need to minimize the Rstudio window to view and click on the messagebox.
I would like to find a way to make the window of messagebox on the top of all windows.
Also the documentation of the package is not helpful. I really appreciate if you share any useful ones.
Thanks
Has anyone tried "Microsoft UI Automation" for web application?
I have a WPF application which has a embedded wpfbrowser.
Since this is basically a desktop app, I cant use Selenium Webdriver.
I tried CodedUI but i am facing a issue, Which i have asked here:
Coded UI - Unable to identify a html controls on a Wpfbrowser
I am planning to use UIAutomation, But again itseems that i am unable to identify a control using id property
Ex:
<button id="but1">Click Me</button>
For this i have:
PropertyCondition ps = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.AutomationIdProperty, "but1");
AutomationElement Clickme = elementMainWindow.FindFirst(TreeScope.Descendants, ps);
But this is not working. "Clickme" is null.
How to do this is UIAutomation??
EDIT: Attaching a screeshot:
I would try actually navigating the tree view down to the control you are looking for instead of doing it based on decedents. Also another thing you could try is doing a retry loop if it is null. Here is an example of a generic Retry for FlaUI. So your code would look something like this.
PropertyCondition ps = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.AutomationIdProperty, "but1");
Func<AutomationElement> func = () => elementMainWindow.FindFirst(TreeScope.Descendants, ps);
Predicate<AutomationElement> retry = element => element == null;
AutomationElement clickMe = Retry.While<AutomationElement>(func, retry, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
So this code will retry finding the element for 1 second and will retry finding it if the element comes back null or it exceptions. If either of those happens it waits 200 milliseconds and tries again. This will tell me if the elements are just not rendered when you try to find them or if their is a difference between how inspect finds them and how System.Windows.Automation is finding them.
If this doesn't work I will post a solution using the tree walker but I suggest using this solution over the tree walker because if this was an application others would want to write automation against they would expect these functions to work the way you are attempting to use them.
Not sure if <button id="but1"> equals with automationId. You can set automation id using AutomationProperties.AutomationId="but1" if you can use that namespace in the code where you define your UI (XAML), which is probaly only for WPF applications.
In your case if your UI defined in HTML I think you can use the button's caption.
So something like this.
var ps = new AndCondition(new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Button),
new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Click Me"));
AutomationElement Clickme = elementMainWindow.FindFirst(TreeScope.Descendants, ps);
ControlTypeProperty can help in filtering results by type. Not mandatory, but it can help if you have automation elements with different type, but with same name property.
I have embedded a WebBrowser control in my application and display content that I receive from a server. Specifically: The control is bound to a string which contains the error message from a rest call, that sometimes is HTML.
I wonder if there is a security risk if active content, e.g. JavaScript would be sent as part of the error message. Is there a way to instruct the WebBrowser control to disable all active content?
There are several ways to do:
First way is remove javascript from your string before pass it to browser, from Elian Ebbing's answer:
The quick 'n' dirty method would be a regex like this:
var regex = new Regex(
"(\\<script(.+?)\\</script\\>)|(\\<style(.+?)\\</style\\>)",
RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
);
string ouput = regex.Replace(input, "");
The better* (but possibly slower) option would be to use
HtmlAgilityPack:
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml(htmlInput);
var nodes = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//script|//style");
foreach (var node in nodes) node.ParentNode.RemoveChild(node);
string htmlOutput = doc.DocumentNode.OuterHtml;
*) For a discussion about why it's better, see this thread.
That way seem better and easier.
Second way is use WinForms webbrowser control, which allow you control lower level of browser, but this involve some invoking to WinAPI.
You can see this link for more info.
I'm trying to create an Automation CodedUI Testing script (using Visual Studio Premium 2013) where I'm trying to click/Select a check box(s). I have the procedure codes names for few nodes in procedure codes.
How do I make VS to click those check boxes?
Thanks :)
Check over what you get back from calling GetChildren() on your identified WinTreeItem.
If in the list is a WinCheckBox that is most likely what you need to define.
var checkBox = new WinCheckBox(yourTreeItem);
checkBox.TryFind();
Mouse.Click(checkBox);
Now it is worth mentioning as well CodedUI also provides the WinCheckBoxTreeItem type of control. Which might bind to your desired check box as well.
var treeCheckItem = new WinCheckBoxTreeItem(yourWinTree);
// add search properties like display text
treeCheckItem.TryFind();
treeCheckItem.Checked = true;
How to put a File path control in VBA front panel? I want the user to be able to select the browse button and select the file path rather than putting up dialog boxes all over the place. I need the user to select three or more file paths.
After re-re-reading your Q, it seams you want to steer away from dialog boxes!Oh well, I was going to say
I could post the hack about using MSDIAG on VBA, that explains
how you can patch your registry to
enable its use under VBA,
without having other MS-VB products
installed... but I rather have you
google that one... you can certainly
understand why.
But you don't want Dialog Boxes... you want controls and buttons: Use listboxes!
To populate your listbox, use the Dir command (using method additem of the listbox).
Two phases for achieving that:
first get the Directories (and prefix a "->" or whatever prior to adding it on the listbox, so that the user understands this is not a file);
then get filenames (you can filter by extension with the arguments of Dir, just as you would in DOS).
Finally, under OnClick and OnDoubleClick of the listbox, you must interpret the listbox default property (Item), check for "->" and use ChDir to change directory and repopulate, or you'll have your file selected.
The write up is sooooooo much more complicated than the code... trust me.
Do you mean VBA for Microsoft Office or just general VBA?
In Office, Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogOpen).
Otherwise, look at the Win32 API function SHBrowseForFolder (in shell32.dll). You can import it for use into VBA using the Declare Function keywords.
There is not direct VBA function for that. You can decide to combine a form (Access form, or a generic microsoft form) with 2 controls: (1) text box (2) browse button (which will finally use the fileDialog command or a windows API).
Perhaps the browse for folder API from the Microsoft MVPs site would suit:
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0002.htm
It uses SHBrowseForFolder mentioned by fwzgekg, and does not return a file dialog, it returns a browsable list of folders.
Is this what you want?
FilePath = Application.GetOpenFilename