CheckText Method

Applies to TestComplete 14.30, last modified on November 21, 2019

Description

Use the CheckText method to perform an OCR Checkpoint, that is, to verify that the text, which a UI element or an image contains and which TestComplete recognizes, matches a specified string. If the verification succeeds, the method will post a success message to the test log; otherwise, it will post a failure message.

Declaration

OCRTextDocumentObj.CheckText(Text)

OCRTextDocumentObj An expression, variable or parameter that specifies a reference to an OCRTextDocument object
Text [in]    Required    String    
Result None

Applies To

The method is applied to the following object:

Parameters

The method has the following parameter:

Text

Specifies a string value against which you want to verify the text content. Can contain an asterisk (*) or question mark (?) wildcards. The asterisk corresponds to a string of any length (including an empty string), the question mark corresponds to any single character (including none). Can be case-sensitive or case-insensitive depending on the Playback > Use case-sensitive parameters property of your project.

Result Value

None.

Remarks

As an alternative, you can verify the recognized text by using various aqString object’s methods, for example, aqString.StrMatches or aqString.Find.

Example

The following example shows how to use optical character recognition to recognize text in the About dialog of Windows Notepad and verifies that the recognized text contains the About Notepad substring.

JavaScript, JScript

function VerifyRecognizedText()
{
  var textToCheck = "*About*Notepad*";

  var p = Sys.WaitProcess("notepad", 3000);
  if (p.Exists)
  {
    // Get the Notepad window
    var wndNotepad = p.WaitWindow("Notepad", "*", 1, 3000);
    if (wndNotepad.Exists)
    {
      wndNotepad.MainMenu.Click("Help|About Notepad");
      // Get the About Notepad window
      var wndAbout = p.WaitWindow("#32770", "About Notepad", 1, 3000);
      if (wndAbout.Exists)
      {
        // Recognize the text that the About Notepad window contains
        var recognizedText = OCR.Recognize(wndAbout);

        // Verify that the recognized text matches the specified string
        recognizedText.CheckText(textToCheck);

      }
    }
  }
  else
  {
    Log.Warning("Notepad is not running.");
  }
}

Python

def VerifyRecognizedText():
   textToCheck = "*About*Notepad*"

   p = Sys.WaitProcess("notepad", 3000)
   if p.Exists:
     # Get the Notepad window
     wndNotepad = p.WaitWindow("Notepad", "*", 1, 3000)
     if wndNotepad.Exists:
       wndNotepad.MainMenu.Click("Help|About Notepad")
       # Get the About Notepad window
       wndAbout = p.WaitWindow("#32770", "About Notepad", 1, 3000)
       if wndAbout.Exists:
         # Recognize the text that the About Notepad window contains
         recognizedText = OCR.Recognize(wndAbout)

         # Verify that the recognized text matches the specified string
         recognizedText.CheckText(textToCheck)

   else:
     Log.Warning("Notepad is not running.")

VBScript

Sub VerifyRecognizedText
  textToCheck = "*About*Notepad*"

  Set p = Sys.WaitProcess("notepad", 3000)
  If p.Exists Then
    ' Get the Notepad window
    Set wndNotepad = p.WaitWindow("Notepad", "*", 1, 3000)
    If wndNotepad.Exists Then
      wndNotepad.MainMenu.Click("Help|About Notepad")
      ' Get the About Notepad window
      Set wndAbout = p.WaitWindow("#32770", "About Notepad", 1, 3000)
      If wndAbout.Exists Then
        ' Recognize the text that the About Notepad window contains
        Set recognizedText = OCR.Recognize(wndAbout)

        ' Verify that the recognized text matches the specified string
        Call recognizedText.CheckText(textToCheck)

      End If
    End If
  Else
    Log.Warning("Notepad is not running.")
  End If
End Sub

DelphiScript

procedure VerifyRecognizedText();
var textToCheck, p, wndNotepad, wndAbout, recognizedText;
begin
  textToCheck := '*About*Notepad*';

  p := Sys.WaitProcess('notepad', 3000);
  if p.Exists then
  begin
    // Get the Notepad window
    wndNotepad := p.WaitWindow('Notepad', '*', 1, 3000);
    if wndNotepad.Exists then
    begin
      wndNotepad.MainMenu.Click('Help|About Notepad');
      // Get the About Notepad window
      wndAbout := p.WaitWindow('#32770', 'About Notepad', 1, 3000);
      if wndAbout.Exists then
      begin
        // Recognize the text that the About Notepad window contains
        recognizedText := OCR.Recognize(wndAbout);

        // Verify that the recognized text matches the specified string
        recognizedText.CheckText(textToCheck);

      end;
    end;
  end  else
    Log.Warning('Notepad is not running.');
end;

C++Script, C#Script

function VerifyRecognizedText()
{
  var textToCheck = "*About*Notepad*";

  var p = Sys["WaitProcess"]("notepad", 3000);
  if (p["Exists"])
  {
    // Get the Notepad window
    var wndNotepad = p["WaitWindow"]("Notepad", "*", 1, 3000);
    if (wndNotepad["Exists"])
    {
      wndNotepad["MainMenu"]["Click"]("Help|About Notepad");
      // Get the About Notepad window
      var wndAbout = p["WaitWindow"]("#32770", "About Notepad", 1, 3000);
      if (wndAbout["Exists"])
      {
        // Recognize the text that the About Notepad window contains
        var recognizedText = OCR["Recognize"](wndAbout);

        // Verify that the recognized text matches the specified string
        recognizedText["CheckText"](textToCheck);

      }
    }
  }
  else
  {
    Log["Warning"]("Notepad is not running.");
  }
}

See Also

OCRTextDocument Object
Optical Character Recognition

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