Java mouseover selection in IE

mojoxeno · Post by **mojoxeno** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:38 pm

Hi,

I was reading the prior topic posted by river10 about using/accessing buttons or general form objects in html. I was wondering if there is a way to specify a java mouseover object in a browser to the MouseOver function.

During recording of a short macro to login (to our web-app) and change to the function I need to test, I find the recorder only sees the mouse positioning when I click the button and notates it as MouseMove. Fair enough, that's what I would expect. When I found that there was a different function for MouseOver I was going to replace the MouseMove but you cannot give MouseOver XY coordinates and I can't seem to find how I am supposed to pass a non-native windows object through the browser.

I am attempting to use MacroScript for QA of the web-based application, so emulation of the UI functions are key. I have a work-around that logs into the web-app and then alters the address line directly to the URL of the function for testing but this won't work for our production testing.

Any ideas?

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 3:44 pm

How about using Macro Scheduler itself, doing something like this:

Label>DoMouseOver
Let>k=k+1
MouseMove>100,80
MouseMove>103,80
MouseMove>106,80
MouseMove>106,82
MouseMove>106,84
MouseMove>103,84
MouseMove>100,84
MouseMove>100,82
IfWindowOpen>NewWindowFromMouseOverActivation*,More
If>kMouseOver movements did not activate.
Goto>End

Label>More
Do actions in NewWindowFromMouseOverActivation

Label>End

Maybe use a set of counters to control amount of movements and how many loops to do?

mojoxeno · Post by **mojoxeno** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:16 pm

YES! I had started a similar process in a previous trial, but I really didn't know if it would work and I wasn't familiar with the product enough to make it (the loop) function right. I abandoned it and started on work-arounds.

I haven't got to the function yet, but I have the java mouseover responding now and the rest should be relatively simple. The java mouseover I have on the web-app works something like a pull-down but you don't have to click it for the list to appear (I have no idea what the designer was thinking

)

I might have to create another loop to "walk" the curser down the list pixel by pixel, but this is definately the right direction.

Thanks Bob!