I'm creating app which is half-automated (user is opening tabs (attention) and if he wants to dump one of them he just clicks hot-key).
But when user opens to much tabs, I need to know to which one I should switch.
How can i get currenttab index. Or switch to current tab on Selenium C#?
string windowHandle = Browser.WindowHandles.Last();
string windowHandle = Browser.WindowHandles.First();
string windowHandle = Browser.WindowHandles[1];
...
is not working for me.
The currenttab index may get changed everytime you invoke Browser.WindowHandles().
Though the general perception is WindowHandles would be sorted like the oldest windows first and the newest windows last. But this is not the case: It is totaly random !
In a discussion, Simon clearly mentioned:
While the datatype used for storing the list of handles may be ordered by insertion, the order in which the WebDriver implementation iterates over the window handles to insert them has no requirement to be stable. The ordering is arbitrary.
This comment is pretty much inline with the Get Window Handles section where it mentioned:
In order to determine whether or not a particular interaction with the browser opens a new window, one can obtain the set of window handles before the interaction is performed and compare it with the set after the action is performed.
You can find a relevant detailed discussion in Best way to keep track and iterate through tabs and windows using WindowHandles using Selenium
Update
As per your comment user switch tab (in window) but driver is still focused on another tab you need to induce WebDriverWait for numberOfWindowsToBe(n) and you can find a detailed discussion in getWindowHandles() not working in firefox 58.The focus remains on parent tab and does not transfer to next tab
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I have a bit of code that clicks on a link from a webpage which opens a new tab and automatically shifts my view to the new tab. When I try to select elements from that new webpage, I get errors saying the elements do no exist even though they do. Most of the times before the test crashes, the tab actually changes back to the original making me to believe that it is actually searching for the elements on the old tab. I try to use _driver.SwitchTo().Window(_driver.WindowHandles.Last()); in the hopes that it does something but it just closes out of the window entirely and opens a new blank window. How do I get it so I can get elements from the new webpage and no longer reference the old tab?
Use this helper function to switch to your tab of choice. The index is determined by the order they have been created. So your your default tabIndex is 0, if you open a new tab/window it will have tabIndex 1 and so forth..
internal void SwitchToTab(int tabIndex) {
WebDriver.Instance.Wait(2);
var newTab = WebDriver.Instance.Driver().WindowHandles[tabIndex];
Instance.Driver().SwitchTo().Window(newTab);
WebDriver.Instance.Wait(2);
}
The waits are just for letting the new tab load. These waits are not good practice, so you should look for other methods for waiting for whatever element/state you are waiting for.
I have a populated ListView dialog. If a user clicks on an option in the ListView, a new dialog is shown above the ListView.
My problems is that when I click off of the new top-most dialog (onto the ListView behind it), the new dialog's borders flash/blink several times. The icon on the taskbar also flashes. I wish to disable the flashing, but cannot find a property to change.
To show my dialog, I use the following code:
if (detail == null)
detail = new Details(opt, val, user, desc, m_l);
else
detail = null;
detail.ShowDialog();
This is intended behavior, it's because the new dialog is modal. It's drawing attention to the fact that something needs to be done.
If you need to make a non-modal form, instead of using ShowDialog(), simply use Show().
Sounds like to me you are creating modal windows each time. And you cannot resume the previous dialogs until you dismiss your new top-most window.
Take a look at this wikipedia article for information about modal dialogs.
I would advise you look at how you are creating/showing your windows.
In WPF you show windows via Show() or ShowDialog(), however, I do not know which type of ListView you are using
EDIT:
Per your comment, you want modal dialogs. The only ways I can think of even trying to remove the flashing is going into WINAPI. This doesn't seem like a job for .NET.
I want to suggest a few things:
Take a look at options for showing each window. See this MSDN page
Take a look at the options for styling each window. See this MSDN page
Reconsider your design. I know this may take a lot of work, but having so many layers of windows is kind of unappealing to most users. Ultimately, I believe this option will make your application the best.
Thank you all for your answers and guidance. I have found the best way to handle my problem.
I was using an event ItemActivated. This event was called when an a highlighted item on the ListView was clicked. This became a problem when the user would double click on an already selected item. This would cause the new dialog to show, but also flash several times.
By using the DoubleClick event instead, a single click on a selected object does nothing. A double click on either a selected or non-selected item opens the dialog without the flashes. The flashes still appear if you try to click off of the dialog box, but are not as much of an issue.
I have an IEView that has many IEWindows and each IEWindow has an IETab and each IETab has the window handle of the tab and the url of that tab in it.
I currently use
WindowStateChanged(uint dwWindowStateFlags, uint dwValidFlagsMask)
to know when tabs change. What I can't figure out is on startup when there is already an IE there in existence, what is the current active tab? If I could just get the active url, I could find the active tab OR if I could just get the active tab window handle, I could get the active tab. Maybe I should climb the tree and try to getSelectedTabIndex to determine the active tab as I know my IETabs got added in the exact order that they are in IE which I thought was interesting and probably not a co-incidence.
does anyone know how to either
get the active tab handle OR
get the active tab's url so I can look up the tab OR
how I would go about getting the tab control and getting the index of the selected tab
or perhaps find the focused IntPtr handle since the window at this time is coming into focus and hopefully the tab is considered the thing in focus?
thanks,
Dean
hmmmm, I am not sure this is correct or not, but the selected Tab is ALWAYS the last Classname=FrameTab in the components list using Winspy++. As I switch tabs, the order of the list changes and the selected one is always last. This is for IE 9...not sure about the other versions.
So, I think using IntPtr handle from tab, I can go up the tree to Classname=IEFrame and get it's children of type Classname=FrameTab and the last one is the selected tab.
Edit for those who say to use tab control
I would love to use a tab control; yet i have no idea how to go about linking the tab control up from the main form. I would assume that I would have to do something like this:
Create Form with a blank TabControl on it, no pages created.
Create a CustomuserControl (Add -> user Control), with my controls on it.
When a new chat comes in, create a tab control Item, Tab Control Page, add the Custom Control to the Tab Control Page. Add the tab control handle to the hash table, so that when new messages come in, they can be referenced in the proper control.
But, i am so not sure how to do this. For example, I know that I can create custom events inside of the User Control, so that, for example, if each control has a 'bold' button, i can each page that has that control on it, to actually USE the button.
Yet i also need to register message callbacks, so that I can use a MessageGrabber to send data to it, and tha'ts not assigned inside of the UserControl, that's assigned programatically when a new window comes in; but since I have no controls to reference, i can't assign.
KISS Philosophy
Wouldn't it be easier to just create the form, like i do now, and then just dock that form within a window or something? So that, in essence, it's still creating the form, but it's also a separate window?
Original Question
Okay, so i'm stumped (which isn't that big of a surprise when it comes to complex C# logic lol)! What i'm trying to do is the following:
Goal: Setup tabbed chatting for new chat application.
Completed: Open new window whenever a chat message is received, or a user requests a new chat from the roster. This is working perfectly, and opens only a window when the user doesn't already have the chat open. Nice and happy there.
Problem: I dont want windows. Well, i do want A window, but, i do not want tons of separate windows. For example, our Customer Service team may have about 10 active IM windows going at one time, i do not want them to have to have 10 windows tiled there lol. I'd rather they have a single Private IM window, and all 10 tabs docked within the window.
Logic: This is my logic here, which may be flawed, i do apologize:
OnMessage: Open new chat window if one doesn't already exist; if one exists, open it as a tab within the current chat window.
SendMessage: ^^ ditto ^^
Code Examples:
if (!Util.ChatForms.ContainsKey(msg.From.Bare))
{
RosterNode rn = rosterControl1.GetRosterItem(msg.From);
string nick = msg.From.Bare;
if (rn != null)
nick = rn.Text;
frmChat f = new frmChat(msg.From, xmpp, nick);
f.Show();
f.IncomingMessage(msg);
return;
}
Note on above: The Util. function just keeps tracks of what windows are opened inside of a hashtable, that way, when messages come in, they route to the proper window. That is added with the:
Util.ChatForms.Add(m_Jid.Bare.ToLower(), this);
Command in the frmChat() form.
Library in Use: agsxmpp from: http://www.ag-software.de/agsxmpp-sdk/download/
Problem:
How can i convert this code to open inside of tabs, instead of windows? Can someone please give me some ideas, and help with that. I just can't seem to wrap my head around that concept.
Use TabControl
I am writing a small class for driving integration testing of a win form application. The test driver class has access to the main Form and looks up the control that needs to be used by name, and uses it to drive the test. To find the control I am traversing the Control.Controls tree. However, I get stuck when I want to get to controls in a dialog window (a custom form shown as a dialog). How can I get hold of it?
You can get a reference to the currently active form by using the static Form.ActiveForm property.
Edit: If no Form has the focus, Form.ActiveForm will return null.
One way to get around this is to use the Application.OpenForms collection and retrieve the last item, witch will be the active Form when it is displayed using ShowDialog:
// using Linq:
var lastOpenedForm = Application.OpenForms.Cast<Form>().Last()
// or (without Linq):
var lastOpenedForm = Application.OpenForms[Application.OpenForms.Count - 1]
I'm not sure if you can access controls on a pre-built dialog box; they seem all packaged together. You may have more luck building a dialog box of your own that does what you want it to do. Then you can access the .Controls inside of it.
Correct me if i'm wrong, though, it sounds as if you are possibly attempting to access the controls on the dialog form when it's not quite possible to.
What I mean is, ShowDialog will "hold up" the thread that the form was created on and will not return control to the application (or, your test class) until ShowDialog has finished processing, in which case your user code would continue on its path.
Try accessing or manipulating the controls from a separate thread (in this case, refactor the test driver class to spawn a separate thread for each new form that must be displayed and tested).