I am trying to automate uploading a file in an Angular/Material design application. Usually, one would just SendKeys to the input box and bypass the browser 'upload file' dialog altogether. But, with Material design, the specific input element isn't available until after a file has been selected. This is the source before the file selection, and this is the source after. I need a way to manipulate the file upload box itself, or at the least enter text into the file selection input of that dialog box and hit enter. I don't know if that's possible using JavaScript Execution, or some other method, but I'm at a loss. Thanks!
I was able to find a solution. Using this documentation, I was able to add a reference to System.Windows.Forms and manually enter the file path/name and hit the enter key. I don't think this solution will work for anything that's not C#, but it worked really well for me.
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I am using Visual studio 2010 to create CodedUI Scripts.The application under Test is a web based Loan origination application .
I am automating a part where user enter's zip code and clicks on search.
when I enter zip code manually and click on search the response is received instantly.
But when the same is done with code,Zip code is successfully sent and search button is clicked but application dose not respond.
Mouse.Click(ContactInformation.ContactInformationForm.PropertyAddress.ImageZipLookup);
Just wanted to understand if this is a playback issue and is there a alternative for using mouse.click()
Most likely, the definition for the submit button is incorrect in your recording. Open the .uitest file, find the control in question in the tree, and open the SearchProperties in the properties of the control. Verify that against the source on the page, and then try again. It's possible that the recording identified a parent HtmlDiv object or something that's receiving the input rather than the button itself (or link, if that's the case).
Personally, while I'm looking at the SearchProperties, I'd remove any properties that are unnecessary. If there's an ID or unique class for the object in question, I'd stick with that alone rather than identifying six or seven other traits that may not be correct on each run (.css styles, inner text, etc. can change depending on your app).
Just be sure you edit the SearchProperties in the UI rather than the text editor, as the .designer.cs file is recreated each time you run the Test Builder, so you would lose any changes you make directly to that file.
I am working on a WPF 4.5 application which needs to interact with PDFs and I am stuck with an issue as described below:
I have template pdfs stored at a specific location. Based on requirement, a copy of the template pdf is created. This pdf has certain fields including text boxes, dropdowns etc. Some of these fields need to be pre-populated like the dropdown values.
Once it is ready, I need to open it, and let the user complete the form. Once completed, the user saves the file and closes it.
Now I need to read the file and send the updated data to the DB. I was able to do all this using iTextSharp by launching the PDF in a separate process and handling the Exited event. Now, the problem I face is this solution does not work if the user uses the SaveAs option to change the name or location of the opened file.
I thought if it would be possible to disable the Save options and add a button on the form clicking which would automatically save the form and close it at the expected location would be a possible solution.
My questions are:
1) Is it possible to find out using the argument of the Exited event handler to find out the saved file name and location? As soon as the user saves the file with a different name, the title of the reader gets updated with the current file name. So I am assuming that the current process is using the latest file.
2) Is it possible to disable the SaveAs and Save file options and close the file on click of a button in the form, using Adobe SDK (JavaScript or plugin or API)?
3) If I use the Adobe SDK, do all the systems on which the application would be installed need to have a licensed version of the Adobe Acrobat?
If the above options are not possible then we would have to settle with dynamic forms. We wanted to experiment with PDF since it is easy to create, and supports image annotations, for which we might need to develop a separate solution, if the above options are not feasible.
I know this is not a very specific programming question, but I need help in order to be able to figure out which path I can go on to be able to achieve the goal.
Please mark duplicate with the link to the other SO question if it a duplicate since I have not been able to figure out one.
Would appreciate answers, links to other posts on SO that are specific to the questions asked.
Please avoid opinion based answers.
Any help would be appreciated.
Any constructive criticism is also welcome.
There is a heavy-handed way to prevent an Acrobat user from Saving a file. In Acrobat, create a Javascript that executes when "Document Will Save." A script like this causes the application to hang rather than Save the file:
var key = "" + this.getField("Password").value;
if (key != "QWERTY") {
app.alert ("No changes to this PDF are allowed,
so you may not Save it.
You will now have to Force Quit or End Task.");
while (true) {};
}
I am not proud of this, but it does the job. You might want to erase the password field before saving.
I am working on a Version Control/File Sync System for Windows. It would be great to have a checkbox at the bottom of the classical save file dialog with the option to check/uncheck for my file versioning.
Is it possible to listen for opened save file dialogs by any program (word etc.) and replace/override that dialog with a customized one (with an additional checkbox)?
If the checkbox is checked, another window should pop-up where the user could enter some additional metadata. After that the data is stored in a local database.
I already worked with the approach by dmihailescu (link provided) but it's very complex and I do not know how to modify that example to listen for opened save file dialogs by other programs.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19566/Extend-OpenFileDialog-and-SaveFileDialog-the-easy?msg=4779306#xx4779306xx
Another approach is to use the FileSystemWatcher but that's very expensive to watch the whole system and it's not very comfortable because the user has to be asked for any created file if he/she wants to version control it.
I hope someone could help me to solve that problem or has some additional tips / approaches.
Thank you.
Edit: Use-case
A user has to write a documentation and creates a new word-doc. When he/she clicks the Save as menu entry of word, my customized save file dialog should pop-up with a checkbox at the bottom, if this file should be versioned or not. If the checkbox is "active" a new window should appear where the user could enter additional metadata. After that the data should be stored in local database.
In my case, only the metadata (like the path etc.) should be stored in the database. Let's suppose a user stores the same file in two different directotries (one file is "older" and one file is the current one). If the user opens an older version of this file, my system should recognize that a "newer" one is already stored in another place and synchronize those files.
That should just be a very easy example.
You have two pieces of functionality: save and version-control. Both of the tasks are actually rather complicated. Therefore you shouldn't mix them. You better off using standard Windows API to save file and do not change that. Think about how you'd support several different Windows releases and how painful that would be.
I assume you have your own UI, and do not integrate with, say, Windows Explorer (like Tortoise Svn or Dropbox). In this case you can do version-control magic first and then just save the end file using standard API.
If you do integrate with Windows Explorer, I suggest you to have a look at Tortoise svn source code.
Im working on automating the behavious of a scientific measurement program in C#.
The program does have a .net API, but the developers of the program havent included all necessary commands eg. they havent included a simple "save as" command that i need for saving the measureing data.
Is there a way to operate the menu strip of the application and e.g. press the save as button.
I start the program from my own application by means of Process.Start();
One simple solution - copy destination path to the clipboard, then use e.g. SendKeys.SendWait() to send the following keys to your target application (with sufficient pauses between them) Ctrl+S "^s", Ctrl+V "^v", Enter "{ENTER}".
It's also a good idea to verify the folder exists, and the file does not, otherwise the saving will obviously fail, or overwrite confirmation will popup.
P.S. But before doing that, use e.g. .NET Reflector to ensure their .NET API doesn't have the save functionality: there're many cases where the SendKeys approach will fail.
Is there a way to display the contents from memory directly in a Notepad window?
I'm assuming that I understand your question. If the file already exists on the machine you can execute the following:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start( "notepad.exe", "[PATH]\[FILE].txt");
If not then save the file locally and then run the above code.
Double-click on the file, making sure the association is set to Notepad.
If you want Notepad to show it without saving it to disk, you can open an instance of Notepad, get the handle for the window, then write the text directly into there. You will need to use Windows User APIs to do this.
The easiest way to accomplish this is to save the file and open it in notepad, however there are at least two other ways.
Open Notepad then copy what you want to the clipboard, then using DDE force Notepad to paste. This is bad, because it potentially overwrites what the user may have been doing in the clipboard.
The second way involves getting a window handle to the notepad Edit control, then doing a WM_SETTEXT to the window. This will not, however, work across privilege boundaries (such as for apps that run as administrator, but notepad runs as a normal user). This also involves getting down to Native level and doing P/Invokes. Not exactly an easy method.
Frankly, it's just easiest to save it to a file and load it.
Why do you need notepad to show some contents (which is in memory)?
If you are using winforms, you could put it in a textbox.
Sorry, if I have not understood your question correctly.
I would like to add to MrEdmundo's answer that the Isolated Storage is the right place to store the temporary txt file for Notepad.