Hi Just starting out with TC. I'm a little unsure what the best practice is when I can't find the element with object spy. I have multiple items that I currently can't find. So what is the best practice/most reliable way to identify these? I'm looking to find some of these icons, but unsure how to proceed in general. I also have a similar problem with the view meno tab at the top. This adds other tabs the deeper into the application you go. But object spy returns to whole tab area, and I can't select a given tab Thanks Jonathon

Hi, Theres a multiple solutions to be able to spay these object from screen: 1) Working with application in debug mode. Check below topic for more information: https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-Desktop-Testing/Support-for-custom-objects/td-p/190410 2) Use Text Recognition Technology in TestComplete: https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/text-recognition/index.html 3) Remeber that in project properties You have a list of currently supported objects, try to add custom classes into this directory. 4) You can also use Image Repository to interact with objects on screen. https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/project-objects/items/image-repository/index.html

How to work when Object Spy doesn't find object

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bach_ls
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago
The easiest way to do it is to record clicks (using record test functionality) and check how Testcomplete mapped these actions. Your case is a bit complicated, because you want to find specific element on ribbon (for reference you can read this section of reference manual: https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/test-objects/controls/desktop/wpf/ribbon/ Check Properties and Methods links too). To select element on ribbon, you basically invoke method like ClickItem or ClickItemXY on ribbon object and you pass the name of element (e.g "ribbon|dept") as an argument. Like I said, the easiest way to know this name, is to record click on item in ribbon and see how Testcomplete will name it.
As of the second part (View Menu) I can only advice the same approach.
- tristaanogre
  Esteemed Contributor
  6 years ago
  As mentioned, try recording to "learn" your application a bit and how TestComplete interacts with it.
  
  For your example, that's a ribbon or menu control in which the icons themselves are not individual objects but are interacted with via a "ClickItem" or "ClickMenu" or some other method. Again, try a quick record to get an idea of what this looks like and then make your modifciations accordingly.
  - Wamboo
    Community Hero
    6 years ago
    Hi,
    
    Theres a multiple solutions to be able to spay these object from screen:
    
    1) Working with application in debug mode. Check below topic for more information:
    
    https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-Desktop-Testing/Support-for-custom-objects/td-p/190410
    
    2) Use Text Recognition Technology in TestComplete:
    
    https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/text-recognition/index.html
    
    3) Remeber that in project properties You have a list of currently supported objects, try to add custom classes into this directory.
    
    4) You can also use Image Repository to interact with objects on screen.
    
    https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/project-objects/items/image-repository/index.html

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