Comments on Peter's to did: Some problems and solutions when using FunFX

hi,I am using FunFX. Problem is how to get all the...

2009-03-25T00:52:00.000-07:00

hi,
I am using FunFX. Problem is how to get all the values in Combobox using FunFX. I need to print all the Text values in Combo box.
can anyone help me....
thanks
eclipse

4) I have a Title Window that pops up and after ma...

2008-05-19T23:42:00.000-07:00

4) I have a Title Window that pops up and after making a selection needs to close. What method/event does this in FunFX?

This question was previously asked by bindiya and u replied.
"You will have to implement the close function of the title window on some button or anything else that you can interact with."

Is there a way to close the Title Window by invoking the flex events such as the one specified in your Date chooser example:
@ie.date_field("dateField").open(:trigger_event => "flash.events::MouseEvent")

Similarly one can:
#@ie.title_window('conferenceAddMemberPopup').open(:trigger_event => "titleWindow.mx_internal::closeButton")
#@ie.title_window('conferenceAddMemberPopup').open(:trigger_event => "flash.events::CloseEvent('close')")

I tried all the above options and all of them seem to fail.

Please help me if possible in this regard

Thanks,
Harshad

Hi ApurvaSorry about the late response, I have had...

2008-01-23T01:42:00.000-08:00

Hi Apurva

Sorry about the late response, I have had a surgery on my shoulder.

With the 64 bit, I am honestly not sure. I have not done anything to support it. I have not developed anything for 64 bit before.

With support for special charachters the answer is yes and no. It recognize norwegian special chars lik æ,ø and å. But it recognize them as \346, \370 and \345.

But you can interact with components having special charachters intheir id as usual.
@ie.label("tLabelæøå").

Hope this answers your questions.

(I have also answered the mail)

Hi Peter!I really liked the FunFX project. It is ...

2008-01-18T07:47:00.000-08:00

Hi Peter!

I really liked the FunFX project. It is great to see some automation effort for Flex applications.

I had a couple of questions about FunFX. I would really appreciate any help you can extend.

1. Does FunFX work on 64-bit platforms?
2. Is FunFX Unicode-friendly? Can it be used to test languages other than English (French, German, Japanese)?

Thanks in advance!

Hi NeilHave checked out the error with the form it...

2007-12-22T09:22:00.000-08:00

Hi Neil

Have checked out the error with the form item.

I am using a method from the automation framework from Adobe, which creates an ID of the object at hand. It is this method that generates the error. The method is getItemAutomationName in the FormItemAutomationImpl.as class. It tries to access the klabel and then create the id, but since the label is not set it returns a nullpointer exception.

I have not yet been able to test if this can easily be fixed by cheking if the label is not null. But this will probably implie changes in the way it resolves the object from the created id as well.

Maybe we just have to use your workaround. I will write a short text about this, thank you very much for the tip!

Hi NeilThanks for the notice. Seems to be a proble...

2007-12-21T23:26:00.000-08:00

Hi Neil

Thanks for the notice. Seems to be a problem here yes. I think this issue should be fixed, due to the fact that forms is used extensively. It should be possible to use a form item without setting the labelwidth.

I have never noticed this before.

I will see if I can sort this out.

This information is valuable to me, thanks!

Ok, I've got a workaround, but there's still weird...

2007-12-19T10:57:00.000-08:00

Ok, I've got a workaround, but there's still weird things going on. The mx.automation.delegates.containers.FormItemAutomationImpl seems to not work if you're trying to retrieve a FormItem from a Form that has ANY FormItems with no label. You must set every label of every form item in the Form you're working with to a NON EMPTY string. Unfortunately, this affects formatting, even when your label is just whitespace. You can workaround this by setting labelWidth="0". After adding label=" " labelWidth="0" to each FormItem (note that label is a space, not empty) I could successfully find and interact with items inside it without breaking formatting.

Hi Peter/All. I'm having some issues finding chil...

2007-12-18T14:35:00.000-08:00

Hi Peter/All. I'm having some issues finding children of FormItems. It seems that when my Button is inside a form item, I can't find it. I can successfully find every element by id up to and including the form item, though.

irb> ie.button("NOT_EXISTING")
=> nil
irb> ie.form_item("frmItem")
=> (messy item description, not nil)
irb> ie.form_item("frmItem").button("NOT_EXISTING")
NoMethodError: private method `split' called for nil:NilClass
from c:/tools/ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/FunFX-0.0.2/lib/flex.rb:32: in `method_missing'
from (irb):16

I get the same behavior when I use the correct Button id.

I think this is because an exception is being thrown from the flex side. (I will try to debug the actionscript side tomorrow).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi TNice!Is it an open source project? If so I wou...

2007-12-12T08:14:00.000-08:00

Hi T

Nice!

Is it an open source project? If so I would be very exciting to see what you have done.

There's a lot of issues I have not yet been able to solve on a nice way (without tape and big nails :-), and it would be nice to share some thoughts and solutions.

- Peter

Hi, PeterI have just learned about FunFX. Nice pro...

2007-12-12T07:24:00.000-08:00

Hi, Peter

I have just learned about FunFX. Nice project. It is good to see someone else is also working on Flex automation issue.

If anyone is interrested I am working on my own test automation tool for Flex. More details here http://riatest.com

TN.

Hi NeilI was not sure were to add FunFX as a proje...

2007-12-11T23:45:00.000-08:00

Hi Neil

I was not sure were to add FunFX as a project, but ended up with Rubyforge, so at http://rubyforge.org/projects/funfx/ there is both a developer mailing list and a user list.

Please use them, but by all means put what ever you like on this blog to :-)

This sure helps. I do the same thing in FLEX, just...

2007-12-11T14:11:00.000-08:00

This sure helps. I do the same thing in FLEX, just didnt know I could do it in FunFX as well.

Thanks Peter!!

Thanks for this information. It seems that there'...

2007-12-11T10:52:00.000-08:00

Thanks for this information. It seems that there's a pretty good sized community for FunFX. Is there a mailing list somewhere? If not, it may be a good idea to start one.

HiYou will need to give the alert box an title or ...

2007-12-10T12:55:00.000-08:00

Hi

You will need to give the alert box an title or header, it is this name the @ie.alert("name") will use.

For example:

Alert.show("Hello World!", "Message"), where @ie.alert("Message").button("OK").click will clik the button.

Or:

Alert.show("Do you want to save your changes?", "Save Changes", 3, this, alertClickHandler), which will be an alert with a yes or no button. And clicking the No button would be done like this:
@ie.alert("Save Changes").button("No").click

Hopes this helps!

Hey Peter,I tried to implement the Alert thing you...

2007-12-10T07:07:00.000-08:00

Hey Peter,
I tried to implement the Alert thing you told me and it gives me the following error:
1) Error:
test_data_change(TestDataGrid):
NoMethodError: undefined method `button' for nil:NilClass
C:/ruby/workspace/ControlsTest/TestDataGrid.rb:23:in `test_data_change'

This is what i wrote in the ruby script:
@ie.alert("Message").button("OK").click

The corresponding mxml code is:
dataGrid2.dataProvider = array2 Alert.okLabel = "OK"; Alert.show("Data Grid has 2nd dataset");

Please help.

Thanks
Bindiya

hey Peter,Thanks for replying.Strange about the ta...

2007-12-07T12:06:00.000-08:00

hey Peter,
Thanks for replying.
Strange about the tabular_data stuff, it always returns nil? Have you tried to to the following with an datagrid you now contains an item, @ie.data_grid("name").tabular_data(:start => 0, :end => 0)?

I tried every permutation and combination to make it work but now i have given up. I guess it is because the data provider is an array and when i say @ie.data_grid("name").select(:item_renderer => "123456") although it selects the row it cant access its contents.

2)Thanks for the info on the tab navigator. It works now, but i have a datagrid on that page and I cant access the data in the data grid. It gives me a flex error so i am not completely sure if it is funFx or Flex.

HiThe first one with the datagrid and the image I ...

2007-12-07T07:02:00.000-08:00

Hi

The first one with the datagrid and the image I don't think it supports yet, but it is great that you bring up these questions, because then I get some info on what to implement next.

With editing datagrid, I will have to check it out, I don't recall how to do it. But I think you need to know the row and column index.

Strange about the tabular_data stuff, it always returns nil? Have you tried to to the following with an datagrid you now contains an item, @ie.data_grid("name").tabular_data(:start => 0, :end => 0)?

With a tab navigator you will use the text on the tab to choose the tab you want.

With the alert box, you write thefollowing:

@ie.alert("title-of-alert-box).button("label-of-button-you-want-to-push").click

You will have to implement the close function of the title window on some button or anything else that you can interact with.

Hope this helps, I will try to build some bigger applicatio that will demonstrate all of these soon.

Glad you still try it, gives me alot of info of improvements and what works.

Thanks!

Hey Peter,I had some more questions/doubts:1) I am...

2007-12-07T06:39:00.000-08:00

Hey Peter,

I had some more questions/doubts:
1) I am working with a tab navigator and I dont know how to switch between the tabs. I used the related object property but that always fails.
2)I have an alert button that pops up everytime you press a button in the application. So when i write the tests i do not know how to click on it so as to make it disappear using FunFX.
3)What do I do to make the tests call the stretch column event in a data grid?
4) I have a Title Window that pops up and after making a selection needs to close. What method/event does this in FunFX?

I know these are too many questions but i am getting stuck on every component it seems. Thank you for you help in advance.

Thanks for the insight Peter. There are some more ...

2007-12-06T07:50:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the insight Peter. There are some more problems which i thought you would know the answers to. They are:
1) I have a datagrid which has an image as an item renderer. The image is invisible to start with but when u click on the column the image (alpha =1) is set to visible. Now i want to test this and I dont know how to access the particular cell. I can select the row using the text string but i am having a problem clicking the next column with the image on it.
2) I also wanted to know the syntax for item_edit_begin.
3) the tabular data comparison in your tests always returns a nil for me. I dont know why?
4)I also tried to work with a datagrid with showHeaders = false. It did not work for me. Would you let me know why?