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Winium - how to access tool bar item if that bar doesn't have child

I am using Winium + Java for automation testing of Windows application, and trying to access tool bar menu.
When I tried to detect elements using UI Automation Verify, I couldn't see child elements under tool bar element like below screenshot.
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But my tool bar definitely has sub menu items like screenshot and I need to access them.
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I tried below java code, but it didn't work
WebElement el = driver.findElement(By.id('59398'));
el.click();
WebElement child = el.findElement(By.name('Start'));
child.click();
when I tried
driver.findElement(By.name"Start').click();
it clicked my windows start menu, not my application's menu.
Is there any way to access items under this tool bar?

You can try use another UI Inspector
eg. UI SPY or Inspector.exe
Probably your ID is not a AutomationID (process id?)
You should find a main window (parent of your app) (Example for calc) and get a parameter like AutomationId, ClassName or Name

I see this is MFC application, and this is an app side MFC library problem. If you hover mouse over toolbar button using Inspect.exe, the info is available but you can't reach this button from the hierarchy (the buttons have no parent somehow). Possible workaround involves combined Win32 API and UI Automation approach:
get button rectangle using Win32 API (but there is no text).
use ElementFromPoint method of UI Automation API and get actual texts to choose the right button.
P.S. My suggestion is applicable for Java + Winium in theory. But I can't estimate the complexity because I'm not a Java expert. So below is Python solution.
We have plans to implemented this mixed way in pywinauto. See issue #413. It contains Python code sample how to do that. We've had no chance to integrate it yet.
from ctypes.wintypes import tagPOINT
import pywinauto
app = pywinauto.Application().start(r'.\apps\MFC_samples\RebarTest.exe')
menu_bar = app.RebarTest.MenuBar.wrapper_object()
point = menu_bar.button(0).rectangle().mid_point()
point = menu_bar.client_to_screen(point)
elem = pywinauto.uia_defines.IUIA().iuia.ElementFromPoint(tagPOINT(point[0], point[1]))
element = pywinauto.uia_element_info.UIAElementInfo(elem)
print(element.name)

Press ENTER key in Selenium WebDriver with java when element property not present

I am using selenium webdriver with Java to automate the webpages
When I enter the url, I am getting the authentication required dialog box
I am able to enter the username and password by configuring profile
but I am not able to click on OK button
Note: Not able to get the ok button property so am not able to
use the below code
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys
WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);
Is there any other way to press on ok button through webdriver?

You need to handle it as an alert box,
wait for popup to appear and click OK.
Below code waits up to a maximum of 10 seconds for the popup to be present and then accepts it by clicking OK. Although wait is optional.
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.alertIsPresent());
driver.switchTo().alert().accept();

Handling credential boxes is not possible directly using Selenium You can use the JAVA AWT robot class to press enter. This class is available in the java API itself.
Robot r = new Robot();
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
Alternatively, you can use AutoIt or an image based testing tool like SIKULI http://www.sikuli.org.
Please note that when you are using these solutions, the workstation screen cannot be locked while running the test cases.

Try this code snippet:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//body")).sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);
It will definitely work.

Appium ios app in JAVA : How to open a keyboard view in appium for ios app

We are automating an iOS app using Appium and JAVA
We stuck at below point
How to open a keyboard view in appium to type in UIAtextbox field as sendkeys of webdriver is not working without it ?
Please help ....

You should not use send_keys on iOS. It is notoriously unreliable. (read more about that here)
Here's my implementation in python:
textfield = driver.find_element_by_class_name('UIATextField')
text = 'ABCDEF'
driver.execute_script("au.getElement('%s').setValue('%s')" % (textfield.id, text))
driver.hide_keyboard('return') # Close the keyboard with the return button
So what you need to do is:
Get the webelement/textfield
On the driver, call ExecuteScript
Pass in the the webelement's id and the value you want to set the textfield to
Optional: Hide the keyboard afterward

To add some clarity:
When you use sendkeys, do the textfield appear clicked?
What is the response from the server regarding the request of the sendkeys action?
Can you show the line where you do the inputing part?
This may be caused by a) Appium doesn't see the UItextbox b) The action is called before the textbox is usable(init phase) c)there is sth completely wrong with your line of code :)
Awaiting your answer

While working with Selenium WebDriver and Java I am not able to use click() function of WebDriver (giving no exception)

I have set the following properties:-
Set environment variables JAVA_HOME,path,ANT_HOME,path (using JDK version --> jdk1.7.0_40)
In Eclipse set the system Library, added all needed jars and select all jars in Order and Export.
Install the Firefox Version 24 and used the Selenium jar(selenium-server-standalone-2.41.0).
Giving no error while running the Java application, also no exception while not able to click on particular element.
sendKeys(Keys.ENTER) is working fine, but instead I need to use click() method.
Also code is working fine on other systems, I think I am missing something.
click() method is not giving any valid response, it makes me feel like its only declared not defined. I have tried on different websites, on different elements and with different types(xpath, css selector, name, id) but nothing worked for me. I took focus on that element by webdriver and also by highlighting the element using javascript code, its showing that particular element is present. I have performed other operations like entering username after clicking on that element, its performing well. I have worked with different browsers, different webpages also maximize the window using selenium but no positive response.
Any help will appreciate.
Thanks in advance

Hi the snippet below worked fine for me
public static void main(String[]args){
WebDriver appDriver;
appDriver = new FirefoxDriver();
appDriver.get("https://web210.qa.drfirst.com/login.jsp");
WebElement loginButton = appDriver.findElement(By.className("btn"));
loginButton.click();
appDriver.switchTo().alert().accept();
appDriver.close();
}

Webdriver showModalDialog

We are using webdriver for our functional tests. But our application uses the showModalDialog JS function a lot to open a popup. When we try to test this functionality with webdriver it hangs from the moment the popup is opened.
We tried several things to test this:
Using the workaround explained here. But this seems to be a fix for selenium and not for webdriver. We tried it but it didn't work.
Searching for a good alternative, HtmlUnit opened the modal dialog and could interact with it, but it has it's drawbacks like no visual help to fix certain tests and it stopped execution when it detected a JS error in a JS library we have to use but have no control over.
How can we test this or work around this problem?

From my experiences with various automation tools interaction with "webpage dialog" windows opened from IE using window.showModalDialog() or window.showModelessDialog() is not available.
Since the window is not a "true" window (look at the taskbar, it doesn't even show up) most tools can't "inspect" it and/or interact with it.
However if you do find a tool that will, please advise - there are many people looking for such a beast.
That all said, if you can possibly avoid using either of these 2 proprietary methods you'll have much more luck.
(and yes, for the picky ones, Firefox and Chrome have adopted these kind of dialogs but they don't work quite the same)

None of the answers answer the question. If the driver hangs, then you can't call any methods on it. The question is NOT about finding the pop up, it is about how to stop the driver hanging. The only way I have found is to not use showModalDialog. This can be done by adding the folowing to your test code :
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("window.showModalDialog = window.open;");
which calls window.open each time your JavaScript calls window.showModalDialog.

I am using webdriver.SwitchTo().Window() method but my concern is my popup window does not have "Name"
When I use webdriver.WindowHandles it return only one handle, I am using this statement after popup window open.
As I don't have name / handle I cannot switch from parent window to child window.
Any other solution to do the same functionality

First we have to switch to the active element:
driver.switchTo().activeElement();
To check whether we have actually switched to the correct active element:
driver.switchTo().activeElement().getText();

Even if the window doesn't have name u can use
driver.switchTo.defaultcontent();
and perform the operation you want to execute
or else you can get the window handle name using the below command
for (String handle : driver.getWindowHandles()) {
driver.switchTo().window(handle); }
hope this should work for you.

Issue 284 is for WebDriver. It seems that it will be implemented only after Issue 27 will be implemented, so the fix should be in Beta 1 or 2 of WebDriver.

Set<String> beforePopup = driver.getWindowHandles();
Set<String> afterPopup = driver.getWindowHandles();
afterPopup.removeAll(beforePopup);
if(afterPopup.size()==1){
System.out.println(afterPopup.toArray()[0]);
}
driver.switchTo().window((String) afterPopup.toArray()[0]);

What I have been using and it works great for us on with IE and Firefox is to go through popups
and look for a a unique text on the popup you are trying to interact with. Here is the method, let me know if it works for you. Please note the line driver = driver.switchTo().window(windowHandle);
public void switchWindow(String containingText, WebDriver driver) throws Exception {
if ( StringUtils.isEmpty(containingText))
return;
int counter = 1;
int numOfpopups = driver.getWindowHandles().size();
System.out.println("Waiting for popup to load..... # handles:" + numOfpopups);
while ( numOfpopups < 2 && ((counter%10) != 0) ) {
counter++;
try{Thread.sleep(1000);}catch (Exception e) {}
}
System.out.println("Done waiting for..... " + counter + " seconds");
if (driver.getWindowHandles().size() < 2)
throw new BrowserException("Timeout after " + counter + " secs. No popup present. ");
System.out.println("Going through window handles...");
for (String windowHandle : driver.getWindowHandles()) {
driver = driver.switchTo().window(windowHandle);
if ( driver.getPageSource().contains(containingText)
return;
else
continue;
}
throw new Exception("Window containing text '" + containingText + "' not found");
}

To my knowledge, webdriver has no built-in functionality to handle modal windows as of now. Webdriver will hang once you click button which opens modal window. This happens due to JS on parent window halts until child window is closed.
To handle modal windows such as this one, see below for possible workaround written in Java. The main idea is to perform action that opens modal window (click on the button) in new thread.
/**
* Click button to open modal window and switch to it
* #param we webElement handle of a button
*/
public void clickToOpenModal(final WebElement we) {
//Get handles of all opened windows before opening modal window
Set<String> initWindowHandles = getDriverInstance().getWindowHandles();
//Create new thread and click button to open window
Thread thread1 = new Thread() {
#Override
public void run() {
//Click button
click(we);
}
};
thread1.start();
//Wait for window to appear
waitForWindow(initWindowHandles, pauseL);
thread1.interrupt();
thread1 = null;
//Get handles of all opened windows after opening modal window
Iterator<String> it = getDriverInstance().getWindowHandles().iterator();
//Select handle of modal window
String windowHandle = "";
while(it.hasNext()){
windowHandle = it.next();
}
//Switch focus and work on the modal window
getDriverInstance().switchTo().window(windowHandle);
}

The solution by Hugh Foster works, i tried this and succeeded
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("window.showModalDialog = window.open;");

You can find the url of modal dialog then open it on another tab, it will work as normal.
In case you want to deal with open modal dialog, you can try to send "tab" key for move around objects and "send keys... enter" for setText or click.
Note: Below is some information why you cannot use selenium webdriver for work with that modal.
Modal pop-up - This is very specific to IE, Microsoft defined it as
When Windows Internet Explorer opens a window from a modal or modeless HTML dialog box by using the showModalDialog method or by using the showModelessDialog method, Internet Explorer uses Component Object Model (COM) to create a new instance of the window. Typically, the window is opened by using the first instance of an existing Internet Explorer process. When Internet Explorer opens the window in a new process, all the memory cookies are no longer available, including the session ID. This process is different from the process that Internet Explorer uses to open a new window by using the open method.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536759(VS.85).aspx
MSDN blog on Modal dialog
When user select Model popup, parent window is blocked waiting for the return value from the popup window. You will be not able to see the view source of the page, need to close the popup then only the parent window is activated.