Can we "click" on edit boxes using Microsoft UIAutomation libraries

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In my application, we have a webbrowserpageviewer control. when a webpage is opened, user needs to click on some of the editboxes present on the webpage. We are trying to simulate this behvior using UI Automation libraries. Am a bit new to this but I see that we can simulate button clicks using InvokePattern so is there any similar method to simulate editbox clicks?

You want to enter the edit (focus) and push text to it? also, what's "webbrowserpageviewer"? — Simon Mourier, Sep 19 '13 at 16:32
Are you coding this or recording? If coding, which language? see this link for the how-to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465184(v=vs.100).aspx — yonitdm, Oct 17 '13 at 15:01

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 28 '14 at 22:31

You have two ways as far as i know to edit the text boxes:

1.You can add a text in text box using a pattern provided by UIA. This pattern is called ValuePattern.

In C# you can do this in this way:

ValuePattern vp = element_object.GetCurrentPattern(ValuePattern.Pattern) as ValuePattern;
vp.SetValue(value_to_set);

2.You can get the bounding rectangle of text box using the AutomationElement properties after that you can click within it.

Getting bounding rectangle in c#:

automationelement_object.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElement.BoundingRectangleProperty)

Can we "click" on edit boxes using Microsoft UIAutomation libraries

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