Sometimes we don't need to capture and use images for automating Desktop based application. We can simply use tab and Enter keys to achieve our task. But in some cases we need images, for example radio button, option selection, check box, etc.
Is there any way to automate these type of options without image or screen shot?
You could simply go through an order of keystrokes without needing to match any sort of pattern. Unfortunately I only make use of the Java API which may be a tad different but the idea is the same for Python (via Jython).
Screen screen = new Screen();
screen.type(Key.TAB + Key.ENTER);
If you are able to get to your radio button through a series of keystrokes, you could put them in sequential order. However using Sikuli entirely without images and patterns kind of defeats its purpose and you're better off using other alternatives such as AutoIt or if you wish to maintain it in a Python environment you could use PyAutoIt. Both are very good but the latter lacks documentation (have to read the source to understand what is going on).
It is not very clear what are you asking? Do you want to know whether you can use Sikuli just for keyboard manipulation without taking and using screenshots? If that's the case, the answer is yes. You can always run standalone commands like these:
type(Key.ENTER) #for Enter key
type("\t") #for tab
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I'm in PhpStorm and I need to select some text, press some shortcut and have that text wrapped in a function call (that I would have defined somewhere in the settings beforehand).
For example:
"Hello World" would become input("Hello World").
$_GET["foo"] would become input($_GET["foo"]).
I don't know if this is even possible, but it could help me save so much time if so.
Applying regex to solve this problem is unfortunately not possible. Manually selecting what I need to wrap isn't an issue.
Will the function name be the same every time or different?
In any case: it can be done this way:
Make a Live Template of "surround template" type with the following content:
$FUN$($SELECTION$)$END$
The $SELECTION$ variable here tells that it's a surround template.
Apply correct Context (where this template can be used)
Give it an abbreviation (name used to locate & invoke it) and brief description.
Here is mine:
NOTE: replace $FUN$ by a fixed function name if the function will always be the same. You can have additional templates with different abbreviations (that will have different hardcoded function names).
To use it:
Make a selection and invoke Code | Surround with... action where you select the right template. On Windows keymap it's Ctrl + Alt + T
In action (NOTE: it's without hardcoding the function name hence me typing the myFunc part):
(HINT: you can select the desired entry in a few keypresses if the name is unique -- just start typing the name in the popup -- the standard Speed Search work here)
P.S. Code | Surround with... can have other (possibly irrelevant for you in this case) entries. To list Live Templates only, use the shortcut for Surround with Live Template... action (Ctrl + Alt + J here on my Windows keymap). You can check the shortcut or change it in the Settings/Preferences | Keymap:
This way the popup menu will be a bit shorter:
Less keypresses:
You may be able to use Macros functionality to record the invoking the popup and selecting the right entry. You can then assign a custom shortcut to that Macros: select the text, hit the shortcut and it will playback the recorded sequence.
Sadly I cannot 100% guarantee that Macros will always work nicely (sometimes/on some setups it can "eat" keypresses).
P.S. It would be much easier if the IDE would support assigning keyboard shortcuts to specific Live Templates .. but it's in the backlog and no ideas on when this might be implemented. Anyway: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-67811 -- watch this ticket (star/vote/comment) to get notified on any progress.
P.S. You can also try Postfix completion. It's good for writing the code and not really suitable for your case (editing small parts of it), but who knows. You will have to make a custom postfix for this -- should not be an issue though.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/2021.3/auto-completing-code.html#postfix_completion
Here is the website I am trying to access. I dont want the default tab (Day) though, I want to select the Season tab
https://www.eex.com/en/market-data/power/futures/uk-financial-futures#!/2017/05/23
The link appears to be exactly the same whichever tab is chose making differentiation impossible as far as I can tell.
Any help on this would be much appreciated, using whichever programming method and language is appropriate.
Kind Regards
Barry Walsh
The URL does not change since this is an ajax request, which you can see from MarketDataTableAController's getPageData function. You can read about them here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/AJAX/Getting_Started
Ive inspected your html and you seem to be using angular. On further inpection you can see that the tabs have ng-click="setActiveTab(tab)" attribute on them. So whenever user clicks, this function gets executed. It is a matter of using this function with the appropriate tab object to get the content to change. You for example could put setActiveTab(tab) into your controller init method since setActiveTab() calls the forementioned getPageData() function to update the page.
Also the tab you are looking for is page.tabs[5] ($parent.page.tabs[5] if referring from TabController) since this is the tab with the label of season. Pass that to setActiveTab() and it should show you the season instead.
However this might not be a good solution since the tab array ordering might change. Then you would need to loop over all objects in page.tabs and see if tab.label === "Season" and pass that in the function instead or better yet use the $filter service provided by angular which would look more cleaner.
Your code source also seems to be minimized and its not very easy to read.
I am trying to call a page in my customers webapplication (Exact Synergy Enterprise)
This is the link: http://someserveridontdisclose/Synergy/docs/CSCANEduCourseCard.aspx?ProjectNr=ACPGINTV
Within this page is an Ajax TabContainer with several TabPanels. One of them is called 'Doelgroepen'
I dont have the source for this application, as i am not the developer of it. We only develop custom extentions to it.
Here's the question: Is it possible to focus on one of the tabs USING ONLY AN URL? If so How?
Thank you very much for your thoughts about this.
try to set with javascript. you'll have to write your own js to get index number you want from url, then set like this
$find('<%=TabContainer1.ClientID%>').set_activeTabIndex(2);
http://forums.asp.net/t/1127834.aspx
http://www.aspforums.net/Threads/420684/ASPNet-AJAX-TabContainer-Set-Active-Tab-Client-side-using-JavaScript/
If you do not have access to the code and if this is not part of the requirement / design specification for the application you are using (ie: what you asked the developer to do), then the answer is No.
The control does not have "native" support for URL tab selection. There needs to be specific code in the application in order to handle this.
It is however very easy to implement, if you absolutely need it, it shouldn't take much time (about 15-30 lines of code, depending on how many tabs/urls combination you need).
You can find a running sample of the AjaxControlToolkit Tabs control at the following link (the available functionnalities are described in there):
http://www.asp.net/ajaxLibrary/AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite/Tabs/Tabs.aspx
If the TAB has an ID you could make it visible by adding '#tabid' to the URL.
Assume I have a html from, and it contain some submit type. I want to create a "are you sure" popup window that will appear when user click submit button.
My question is that is there any way to create it by using "only" html, not using javascript or any other?
HTML only is possible, but not without a postback
Scenario that could work without javascript:
You have your form with submit button
User clicks (and submits) the form
You display another form with are you sure? form (that contains Yes and No buttons as well as hidden fields of the first form that will make it possible to do the action required on the original data
functionality that executes the action and goes back to whatever required.
This would be completely Javascript free, but it would require several postbacks.
This kind of thing is usually done on the client with a Javascript confirm() function (here's a simple example) or lately with a more user friendly modal dialog provided by many different client libraries or their plugins.
When to choose the script free version?
If you know your clients are going to be very basic ones (ie. vast majority of your users will access your application using clients like Opera Mini that's not able to run scripts at all). But in all other cases it's much better to do this using Javascript. It will be faster, easier to develop and much more user friendly. Not to mention that it will put less strain on your server as well since certain parts will execute on the client without the need of any server processing.
No, there isn't. Despite of the new features in HTML 5, HTML is still a markup language, not a programming language. In order to express dynamic behavior (such as an "are you sure?" box), you need to use a programming language.
Javascript would be the most obvious choice for this, but you could also do it with frameworks that can get you around writing Javascript by hand (for example ASP.NET).
Edit: Actually it appears that it would theoretically possible to do this with without Javascript or other frameworks. As I just learned, HTML 5 + CSS 3 seems to be turing complete. But this is hardly relevant to this question.
It's possible to ask for a confirmation, but it will not be in a "popup window". The creation of the "popup window" requires javascript/other language.
It will be:
Request (first form)
POST
Response (confirmation form)
POST
Response (outcome message)
You can create a form with all hidden elements containing the data from the first form and a "Yes" and "No" button below the "Are you sure?" text. You can use PHP sessions to avoid the hidden form elements. If there is a lot of data or confidential data or you do not want to re-validate the data from the second form, use sessions. Make sure you validate the data from either form before using it.
I know I'm like .. 10 years late. But for anyone still wondering I thought I could be of some help!
What I did for this exact problem was make sure I had multiple "divs" in my code. For me specifically, I had two main ones.
First, one whose id="main", and another whose id="popup" with the 'visible' property initially set to 'false' for the popup div.
Then, on whichever event you're looking for (button click for example) you'll simply set main.Visible = false and popup.Visible = true, then you could have more buttons in your popup (yes, no, cancel, confirm, etc.) which do the exact same thing, but in reverse!
The most important thing to make sure of is that you have the 'runat="server"' property in your divs so that you can access them in your CS code
Hope this was helpful! :)
My current job is updating an existing Access97-Project. I haven't worked with Access in a long time and i can't find out, how i can explore a toolbar called "sbmbDrucken" which is obviously user-created. I just need access to the action or the code which is called by the buttons...
Is there any menu entry i missed or do i need special code for self-inspection?
TIA!
There are three different ways for menus/toolbars to be instantiated:
the old way, using macros. Before A95, this was the only way, so a lot of older apps (i.e., those converted from earlier versions) may still use macros for the menus.
defining them by hand, using the CUSTOMIZE function that you get when you right click on a toolbar in Access.
in code, using the Application.Commandbar object.
For the first you can browse your macros and see if any of them are menu macros.
For the last, you can do a search in the code for CommandBar.
For the second, just look at them through the built-in menu customization tools. Keep in mind that you may have to check them off to get them to be visible, and that the list is in no rational order. Likewise, some menus/toolbars are hidden from the customization interface. Also, you might need to look at the CUSTOM toolbar menu item.
I don't have Access 97 on hand but you may take a look of this webpage: http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk/hints-and-tips/accaddtoolbar.html
It seems that "user-created" toolbars could be defined by handwritten code at form.load or somewhere similar. You may search CommandBars.Add and see if you can find those relevant code segments.
Hope that helps.
In the design mode, you will be able to see the toolbar & actions assigned to each of the button.
Right click on the specific toolbar
Click on Customize...
Right click on the button you would like to edit the action of.
You will be able to see the action (which could either be macro or code).
Let me know, if that doesn't help at all.