How to identify the objects in a frame?

[madgulakrishna]

scenario is mentioned in the attached pic..

All frame as well as the object inside it has the same Automation id and there is no unique way to identify each of the objects.

I tried the code mentioned in the below mentioned query: https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues/669 Not much luck.

NOTE: I don’t want to use the co-ordinates to interact with the objects. This is a desktop based application.

Any suggestion in this regard is highly appreciated.

[naeemakram]

Have you tried to to use the method FindElementsByTag? By using this method call, you can retrieve all elements which have a specific tag name such as Button or Edit. There are other methods too which return a collection such as FindElementsById, it will return all elements which have similar ID. Once you have the collection, use a foreach loop to go through it and perform any operations. You may use Click, SendKeys, and GetAttribute on any WindowsElement object. Let me know if it helped or not.

[NadeemBader]

Hi

I'm facing the same issue. In my case, the frame contains many shapes that created based on a Collection of Items. That's mean, there is a Collection of Items (Called Buttons) defined in the frame and based on its items the frame is shaped. How can I access that collection of items using WinAppDriver?

Here is the collection:

    [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)]
    [Editor(typeof(System.ComponentModel.Design.CollectionEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]
    [RefreshProperties(RefreshProperties.Repaint)]
    public GenericEditableCollection<ButtonMatrixItem> Buttons
    {
        get
        {
            return buttons;
        }
    }

Hope you can assist

Best Regards, Nadeem Bader