Working With Tab Controls in Desktop Windows Applications

Applications use tab controls to define several pages for the same area of a window. Each tab page can contain a set of controls, which is displayed when the user selects this page.

TestComplete lets you perform various operations over tab controls and work with their data from tests. It uses Win32TabControl to work with tab controls whose class names are listed in the Default Project Properties - Object Mapping Options options of the current project. If you need to test a custom tab control, you can associate its window class name with the scripting object by adding it to the Default Project Properties - Object Mapping Options list.

Using specific properties and methods of the Win32TabControl object performs various actions over the tested tab control. Furthermore, if the application you are testing is an Open one, you can access the internal properties and methods of the tab control and work with them from your tests. You can explore your tab control in the Object Browser to learn which internal properties and methods are available to your tests.

The topics of this section provide detailed information on working with Win32 tab controls in TestComplete. To learn about working with Android tab host controls see the Working With Android Tab Host Controls section.

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Win32 TabControl Support
Object-Specific Tasks
Supported Controls
Default Project Properties - Object Mapping Options
About Open Applications