TestComplete supports testing of various standard Windows controls. You can also modify project properties so that TestComplete recognizes your custom standard Windows controls. The sections below describe how you can test standard Windows controls in detail.
About Supported Standard Windows ControlsAbout Supported Standard Windows Controls
TestComplete provides extended support for standard Windows controls. These controls are automatically associated with special program objects that extend the controls’ functionality with a number of supplementary methods and properties. These extended methods and properties let you perform various operations over the controls, for example, select individual items or retrieve the item text.
Supported Classes
Below is the full list of the Windows controls for which TestComplete provides extended support.
Note that TestComplete provides support for the listed controls as well as for their descendants. However, to make this possible, you need to specify the class name of your inherited control in the corresponding group of the project’s Object Mapping options. For more information, see Object Mapping.
Also note that class names can contain asterisk (*) or question mark (?) wildcards. The asterisk corresponds to a string of any length, the question mark - to any single character.
| Controls | Classes |
|---|---|
| Button | TBitBtn* TButton* Thunder*CommandButton WindowsForms*BUTTON* |
| Check box | *CHECKBOX* |
| Combo box | ComboBox ComboBoxEx32 WindowsForms*.COMBOBOX.* TComboBox TComboBox.* TComboBoxEx TComboBoxEx.* TDBComboBox TDBComboBox.* Thunder*DriveListBox TColorBox* TMyComboBox Thunder*ComboBox |
| Date-time picker | *DateTimePick* DTPicker* |
| Edit box | EDIT TDBEdit TDBEdit.* TDBMemo TDBMemo.* TEdit TEdit.* TMemo TMemo.* TLabeledEdit TLabeledEdit.* *RichEdit* RichTextWndClass TseDBEdit WindowsForms*.EDIT* Thunder*TextBox WFC.EDIT TcxCustomInnerTextEdit TcxCustomInnerMemo |
| Header | *SysHeader* msvb_lib_header THeaderControl* |
| HotKey | *HotKey* |
| IP address | SysIPAddress32 |
| List box | ListBox TDBListBox TDBListBox.* TListBox* TCheckListBox* TColorListBox* ThunderRT6ListBox ThunderRT6FileListBox WFC.LISTBOX WindowsForms*.LISTBOX.* ComboLBox REListBox20W TcxInnerListBox |
| List view | *ListView* |
| Month calendar | *MonthCalendar* *SysMonthCal* *MonthView* |
| Pager | *SysPager* *PageScroller* |
| Radio button (option button) | *RadioButton* TGroupButton* Thunder*OptionButton |
| Scroll bar | *ScrollBar* |
| Status bar | msctls_statusbar32 WindowsForms*.msctls_statusbar32.* TStatusBar |
| SysLink | SysLink Link?Window |
| Tab control | *TabControl* TPageControl TPageControl.* TTabbedNotebook TPropertySheetControl TabStrip20WndClass _wx_SysTabCtl32 |
| Toolbar | *ToolBar* |
| Tooltip | tooltip_class32 |
| Track bar (slider) | msctls_trackbar msctls_trackbar32 WindowsForms*.msctls_trackbar32.* TTrackBar TTrackBar.* Slider*WndClass |
| Tree view | *TreeView* |
| UpDown | *UpDown* |
Recognizing Custom Controls
To command TestComplete to recognize your custom standard Windows controls, open your project’s Object Mapping options and add the control’s class name to the corresponding subgroup of the Win32 Controls and Windows group. The subgroup name corresponds to your custom control’s type. Once the control is mapped, it gets all the properties, methods and actions specific to the standard Windows control of the corresponding type.
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.