Win32 HotKey Support

About Support

TestComplete can recognize Win32 HotKey controls in Windows applications. It provides special properties and methods that let you retrieve the controls data and simulate user actions on the controls (see below).

For information on how to use these properties and methods in tests, see Working With HotKey Controls.

Requirements

In order for TestComplete to be able to work with your controls as with Win32 HotKey controls, the control’s class name must be specified in the Win32 Controls and Windows | Hot key group of your project’s Object Mapping options. By default, this group contains the following item:

• *HotKey*

You can also command the test engine to recognize custom controls as Win32 HotKey controls. See below for information about this.

Recognizing Custom Controls

To command TestComplete to recognize your custom controls as Win32 HotKey controls, open your project’s Object Mapping options and add the control’s class name to the Win32 Controls and Windows | Hot key group. The class name is specified by the control’s WndClass 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 Win32 HotKey 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 Win32 HotKey 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:

Typical Tasks

For examples that demonstrate how to perform typical operations over HotKey controls, see Working With HotKey Controls.

See Also

Working With HotKey Controls
Working With Standard Windows Controls