Drag and Drop without using cordinate system

Question

Hi All,I wanted to Drag a web Object to and Drop it to another web Object, is there any way that i can do it without using this cordinate system? Or I can find the object and press my left mouse and release it when the mouse is over on the target object?&nbsp;

hkosova · Answer

You can use this function to drag an object to another object:
&nbsp;
// JScript// Drags the source object to the specified destination objectfunction DragToObject(source, destination)
{
  var point1 = source.WindowToScreen(source.Width/2, source.Height/2); 
  var point2 = destination.WindowToScreen(destination.Width/2, destination.Height/2);
  source.Drag(source.Width/2, source.Height/2, point2.X - point1.X, point2.Y - point1.Y);
}
Here's a demo for the&nbsp;http://html5demos.com/drag&nbsp;page:
&nbsp;
function DragDropTest()
{
  var strUrl = "http://html5demos.com/drag";
  Browsers.Item(btIExplorer).Run(strUrl);
  var page = Sys.Browser().Page(strUrl);

// Drag&amp;drop "two" into the trash bin
  var item = page.FindChildByXPath("//a[@id='two']");
  var trash = page.FindChildByXPath("//div[@id='bin']");

DragToObject(item, trash);
}

veroniquelu · Answer

I think I figured out what went wrong, when trying to find the object by the first method, along with all these parent/sibling, the object becomes a non-testcomplete object, that's why it's not supported, so I've changed my code by using xpath to find it correclty, it works like a charm.. Thank you very much, Both of you :D

alexkaras · Answer

Hi,
&nbsp;
Great to hear that the problem is solved.
And yes, your conclusion is absolutely correct and this was the reason for my first question about how the problematic object was obtained.
TestComplete can access application's objects and their internal methods. Also, for the objects that are found and referenced by the means of TestComplete, TestComplete 'wraps' them with its own wrappers that provide access to the additional methods provided by TestComplete.
If you are calling native method of some object and this method returns another object, then, obviously, this returned object will not be wrapped by TestComplete (because it was obtained not by its means) and thus will not contain methods provided by TestComplete.
So, in your code:
var ItemText = webPageObj.EvaluateXPath("//li[@id='"+ItemID+"']")​;
ItemText = (new VBArray(ItemText)).toArray();
var ItemRow = ItemText[0].firstChild;
var PlusIcon = ItemRow.nextSibling;
var ItemName = PlusIcon.nextSibling;
&nbsp;
ItemText is an object obtained via TestComplete means and thus contains the .Drag method.
ItemRow and all other objects are obtained via the call to the native XPath functions, not wrapped by TestComplete&nbsp;and thus do not contain the .Drag method.

veroniquelu · Answer

I found "&lt;a title="" class="jstree-anchor jstree-clicked" href="#"&gt;&lt;i class="jstree-icon jstree-themeicon jstree-themeicon-custom" style='background-position: center; background-image: url("/Images/treeView/icon_book_black.png"); background-size: auto;'&gt;&lt;/i&gt;course1&lt;/a&gt;" objectBut it says it doesn't support this method..

alexkaras · Answer

Hi,
&nbsp;
How did you search for the object?
Can you provide us with your actual code, exact line of error and the error text iteself?

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