MFC Toolbar Support

Applies to TestComplete 12.60, last modified on September 17, 2018

About Support

TestComplete can recognize MFC Toolbar controls in Visual C++ applications. It provides special properties and methods that let you retrieve the controls data and simulate user actions on the controls (see below).

Supported Versions

Supported component version: MFC Feature Pack for Visual C++ 2008, Visual C++ 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015.

Requirements

  • You must have an active license for the TestComplete Desktop module.

  • The application must be compiled with debug information.

  • If the application is compiled with the Use of MFC option set to Use MFC in a Shared DLL:

  • The control’s class name must be added to the Microsoft Controls | MFC | MFCToolBar group of your project’s Object Mapping options. By default, this group contains the following class:

    • CMFCToolBar
  • The Microsoft Control Support plugin must be active. This plugin is installed and enabled automatically as part of the TestComplete Desktop module.

    If you experience issues when working with the controls, select File > Install Extensions from the TestComplete main menu and check whether the plugin is active. (You can find the plugin in the Common group.) If the plugin is not available, run the TestComplete installation in the Repair mode.

Recognizing Custom Controls

To command TestComplete to recognize your custom controls as MFC Toolbar controls, open your project’s Object Mapping options and add the control’s class name to the Microsoft Controls | MFC | MFCToolBar group. The class name is specified by the control’s ClassName property. You can get the property value in the Object Browser panel. You can also choose the needed control from screen. For detailed information, see Object Mapping. Once the control is mapped, it gets all the properties, methods and actions specific to the MFC Toolbar control.

If the specified custom control does not fit the control’s type, then it may not properly respond to commands that TestComplete sends, so recording or playing back user actions over the tested control will cause errors.

Members

When testing MFC Toolbar controls, you can use properties and methods specific to these controls, as well as properties and methods that TestComplete applies to tested objects, onscreen objects and window objects. For the full list of available properties and methods, see the following topics:

See Also

Testing Visual C++ Applications
List of MFC Controls

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