Are the third party apps supported with WInAppDriver?

[sunnygupta1990]

I need to automate Micro Focus Reflection 3270 emulator. is it possible to automate it with WinAppDriver? There is no automation iD available for this software in Inspect.exe. Also, i am not able to create any relevant XPATH for the fields. Please guide me a way to automate this.

[anunay1]

What about other properties like name, classname or tagname

[sunnygupta1990]

attached is the sample screen of the 3270 emulator. We work on the entire black screen. It's a grid prefebally 2480 (but is customizable). I am also attaching the screenshot of inpect.exe. inspect.exe shows the class name as 'REFLECTION_EIGHT" for the entire workarea of 2480 grid. There can be many fields in that area, and I am not able to find any way to pass/get data at a particular field say at row 2 and colum 30 i need to get the data of next 6 bytes, but there is no way to do it.

Could you please suggest me a way to do it? winAppDriver issue screenshot.docx

[sunnygupta1990]

grid of 24 X 80. Rows = 24 and coloums = 80.

[anunay1]

You need to access inside the black area or the editor, if the SW is under you control ask the developers to implement automation properties without that you do not have a way out

[sunnygupta1990]

Nope the software is not under my control. There is no way we can edit the code of the emulator. Consider this emulator as the Android emulator of Windows and myself as the andoid developer. An app runs inside the black screen (which is of 24 X 80 grid). I am a developer of that APP.

In the webdriver, ways to get some data from page/windows application are byattribute, byelementid, by Xpath, by Cssselector etc etc. Is there any way i can tweak it out and get the values by providing row number and coloum number? The same way we do in VBA for excel (For example Cell(row,coloum)). ElementID, Xpath, CSS Selector etc won't help me here with this emulator.

A webpage has a source code with lot of elements on it. Individual elements has unique values. Same is with the windows applications. Windows applications are not versatile as Web pages are. Layout of Windows applciations are always constant. Suppose I know that in a particular Window application there is a text box present at row 12 and column 5, then Won't it be possible for me to get the value from that text box by providing it co-ordinates(Rows and columns in this case).

Sorry for the long comment, I am just trying to explain my problem to you and looking for a ray of hope.

[anunay1]

Can we have a hangout call anunayathakur1@gmail.com

[sunnygupta1990]

Sure just sent you a request from sunnygupta1990@gmail.com