On Chromecast, is there any way to customize, style (with CSS), or replace the backdrop application?
(That's the application that runs as a sort of screen saver, when nothing's being cast to the device).
My ideal backdrop app would be an iframe showing something I could control.
No, it cannot be styled or replaced. You have some level of control on what images or information show up there (can be set in your Chromecast app); that is all.
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I am new to CodedUI & C#.
I am trying to automate a wpf application which has a WPF Browser.
So basically, It's WPF container with html content inside. I have created a similar sample small application and shared it here. This application opens the amazon.in website within wpfwindow.
WPF Browser application
My problem is Coded UI is not able to identify the Html-Controls/elements like 'Buttons', 'Text input fields' properly.
Below, the top image is from the WPF Browser app [Link which i have shared].
Here you can see a blue square box on the top-left. The coded UI identifies that area has the Search Go button.
Bottom part of the image is of the amazon website in IE browser where coded ui is properly highliting/ identifying the Search Go button.
Does this mean i cannot automate WPFBrowser apps using Coded UI.?
Can someone please tell what to do to identify the buttons properly in coded ui
You need to specify Id attributes for the controls that you want exposed to Coded UI.
To me this looks like CodedUI is getting some control that's similar, rather than the correct one.
You haven't mentioned if you're recording and executing tests or handwriting them in a separate CodedUI solution.
If you're recording them: Be sure that you're recording using your WPF application and interactions inside of them, rather than recording using your browser and then trying to execute tests using the WPF application
If you're writing them by hand: Be sure that you're correctly creating trees of inheritance when writing your tests. For instance, in a traditional CodedUI scenario the absolute top level object that all other controls inherit from is a web browser. In your scenario, that object should be the WPF object. There are probably going to be some other windows or various controls that are children of the WPF application which in turn will finally have the browser as a child.
Am working on a windows store winjs application and am trying to force display the touch keyboard on the application screen.
I couldn't find any proper solution over the net for the same.
Is there a way to force display it?(would be great if there are some work arounds)
The touch keyboard show & hide behavior is designed to be controlled by the user and should not be changed easily.
Anyway an easy workaround is to set the focus on an input control in the page programmatically. This will make the keyboard appear, but the the control will be back to the user and he will be able to hide it at any time.
Cheack this article for a more complex workaround if you need a bit more control: How do I hide virtual keyboard for select element in Win8 JavaScript app?
I have the following control in a Windows Metro App:
string html = "<html><body>test content</body></head>";
myWebView.Opacity = 0.5;
myWebView.NavigateToString(html);
This works okay, but what I end up with is a blank white background with black text. What I actually want is for this to work with the current Metro style (so match the dark or light background depending on the setting). I've played with the Opacity setting, as above, but it seems to make no difference.
Is there a way to get the WebView control to mirror the current Metro style?
This is by design. WebView-Controls don't support any Opacity, cause they are kind of a special control which is rendered on top of everything.
From the MSDN docs:
WebView has the characteristic that other UI regions such as controls cannot be rendered on top of the WebView. This is because of how window regions are handled internally, particularly how input events are processed and how the screen draws. If you want to render HTML content and also place other UI elements on top of that HTML content, you should use WebViewBrush as the render area. The WebView still provides the HTML source information, and you reference that WebView through element name binding and the SourceName property. WebViewBrush does not have this overlay limitation.
Is it possible to show and hide the browser action icon from the options page?
I know how to do it with the page actions using the show and hide methods, but I don't see any similarities in browser actions.
From https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/browserAction:
If you want to create an icon that isn't always visible, use a page action instead of a browser action.
In other words: no, this isn't possible. Browser actions are permanent by design.
Google defined Browser Action as static buttons, and Page Action as dynamic ones.
Google is very careful with Chrome's interface, and don't want people use buttons in a different way they are "supposed" to do.
They do so because they think users have tu put an effort to learn to use Chrome, and Google want to present a consistent, coherent and minimalist user interface.
You don't have much freedom with regard to Chrome user interface.
We have an application that transmits data responses over a radio in the form of an HTML page that is then displayed on a mobile device. The mobile application is beign rewritten in WPF.
We need to display this HTML page in an area of our UI. I have used the WebBrowser control and it displays the page fine. However, the WebBrowser gives you no ability to customize. I have two main stumbling blocks preventing us from using the WebBrowser control for our implementation.
We need to provide particular functionality on a right-click on the control. I cannot get the built in context menu of the WebBrowser control to not display.
We need to customize the scroll bars, which you cannot do with the WebBrowser. We deploy on touch screen devices, so thoroughout our appplicaiton we have fatter scroll bars and additional features for scrolling that the WebBrowser control doesn't allow for.
I'd like to find an alternative.
There is a project/product call Awesomium, which is based on Chromium/WebKit. It is a commercial product, which used to be open-source.
For .NET/WPF it uses the AwesomiumSharp wrapper.