Accessing Native Properties and Methods of Qt Objects

About Accessing Native Properties and Methods

Getting Access to Qt Applications Native Properties and Methods

Getting and Setting Native Object Properties

Calling Native Object Methods

Important Notes

TestComplete identifies individual GUI objects in Qt applications and provides specialized methods and properties for automating various operations on these objects, getting object data, checking state and so on. However, if these predefined properties and methods are insufficient for your testing needs, you can use native properties and methods of Qt objects to complete desired tasks. These are the same properties and methods that are available for use in the tested application’s source code as well as custom properties and methods implemented by the application developers. This way, you can perform almost any operations in the tested Qt application, even those that are not accessible via the application’s GUI.

The Object Browser marks objects of Qt applications with the glyph. To view native properties and methods available for a Qt object, use the Object Spy or Object Browser in the Advanced view mode. Native properties and methods of Qt objects are displayed under the Qt category (see Important Notes for details).

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TestComplete lets you access only those properties of Qt objects that are listed in meta-information of an object and have standard QVariant-compatible data types. For more information, see Using Native Qt Methods and Properties in Testing.

For more information on how to refer to objects in Qt applications, see Addressing Objects in Qt Applications.

By default, TestComplete enables you to access all public methods from your tests and some of public properties (for more information, see Using Native Qt Methods and Properties in Testing). You do not need to prepare your application in any special way to call these methods and properties from your tests.

To access an object’s property in script code, you specify the property name after the object name using the dot operator "." (in VBScript, JScript, Python and DelphiScript projects) or the square bracket notation [" "] (in C++Script and C#Script projects).

For example, you can get and set a Qt form’s title using its native windowTitle property in the following way:

In keyword tests, you can retrieve an object’s property value and save it to a test variable using the Set Variable Value operation. To change a property value, you can use the On-Screen Action operation to call the property’s [Set] method. For more information, see Getting and Setting Object Property Values.

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You can also create checkpoints for verifying values of native object properties.

To call an object’s method from script code, you use the dot operator "." (in VBScript, JScript, Python and DelphiScript projects) or the square bracket notation [" "] (in C++Script and C#Script projects) to specify the method name after the object name.

For example, in script code you can call the native SetFocus method of a Qt combo box as follows:

In keyword tests, you can use the On-Screen Action operation to call an object’s native method. For more information, see Calling Object Methods.

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• In the Object Spy or Object Browser, native properties and methods of Qt objects are only displayed in the Advanced view mode. By default, TestComplete provides you with access to Qt public properties and methods.

  In addition, if the Debug Info Agent™ is enabled and the Read debug information for statically linked libraries option is enabled, TestComplete provides you with access to protected and private properties and methods.

• If a native property or method has the same name as a test object property (method) provided by TestComplete, the native property (method) can be accessed via the NativeQtObject property. For example, you can access the native Name property of a Qt application’s form as follows:

  JavaScript, JScript

  Python

  VBScript

  DelphiScript

  C++Script, C#Script

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  Aliases.textedit.TextEdit.NativeQtObject.Name

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  Aliases.textedit.TextEdit.NativeQtObject.Name

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  Aliases.textedit.TextEdit.NativeQtObject.Name

  DelphiScript

  Aliases.textedit.TextEdit.NativeQtObject.Name

  C++Script, C#Script

  Aliases["textedit"]["TextEdit"]["NativeQtObject"]["Name"]

• The leading underscore ( _ ) in property and method names is replaced with the character z. For example, a property named _flag is accessible as zflag, a method named __reset() is accessible as z_reset(), and so on.

• If the object contains overloaded methods (methods with the same name but different parameters and return value types), TestComplete appends indexes to method names in order to distinguish between them. For example, GetChildAtPoint() and GetChildAtPoint_2(). To determine which index-suffixed method name corresponds to which overloaded method, examine the method’s parameter list in the Object Spy, Object Browser or Code Completion.

• Some native properties and methods of Qt objects are unavailable to TestComplete. For more information, see Object Properties, Fields and Methods That Are Unavailable to TestComplete.