Appium Inspector failing to identify elements of windows application

[bhargavkumar-65]

Appium or Appium Desktop?

Appium Desktop.

• [x] I have verified that my issue does not occur with Appium and should be investigated as an Appium Desktop issue

The problem

Appium UI Inspector cannot identify our windows application. The application i am trying to identify the element is developed using Delphi language and falls under Winforms/Classic win32 app.

Source XML after launching session: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement; import io.appium.java_client.unknownPlatform.UnknownDriver; import junit.framework.TestCase; import org.junit.After; import org.junit.Before; import org.junit.Test; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

public class SampleTest {

private UnknownDriver driver;

@Before public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException { DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities(); desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appium:app", "C:\K_Fleet\KMSupportShipping\Tarjelina\Services\APIServer.exe"); desiredCapabilities.setCapability("platformName", "windows"); desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appium:automationName", "windows"); desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appium:deviceName", "WindowsPC"); desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appium:newCommandTimeout", 3600); desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appium:connectHardwareKeyboard", true);

URL remoteUrl = new URL("http://localhost:4727/wd/hub");

driver = new UnknownDriver(remoteUrl, desiredCapabilities);

}

@Test public void sampleTest() {

}

@After public void tearDown() { driver.quit(); } }

Environment

• I am running Appium Desktop version <1.22.3>.
• I am on (pick one):
  • [ ] Windows

[jlipps]

it seems that winappdriver does not support methods the inspector requires. probably because winappdriver has been abandoned.