I have an application window open. This window contains a list of connections. I want to uniquely retrieve the text(i.e. connection name) which is in read-only state from the list using java with the help of autoIt. I have got two connections in the list.
For this project I am using tools and technologies as follows:
1) Java SE 8
2) AutoIt
Although the window which contains the list of connections has a unique ID, individual elements from the list doesn't have any. So searching and getting the required unique text by ID is not an option. I have used ControlListView method of autoIt to get the desired result. Using above method in java with the help of autoIt I was successfully able to use methods viz., controlListViewSelectClear(), controlListViewSelectAll(). But I was getting error for methods viz., controlListViewGetItemCount(), controlListViewFindItem(), controlListViewIsSelected(). Also methods viz., controlListViewGetText(),
Below is the code sample and its output:
public class TestAutoIt {
/*Choose the 'JACOB' dll based on the JVM bit version.*/
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final String APPLICATION_TITLE = "ABC";
final String CONNECTION_NAME = "APP Connection 1";
private AutoItX control;
{
/*Load the jacob dll.*/
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control = new AutoItX();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
TestAutoIt obj = new TestAutoIt();
/*Returns the ControlRef# of the control that has keyboard focus within a specified window.*/
String stringFocus = obj.control.controlGetFocus(APPLICATION_TITLE);
System.out.println("stringFocus: " + stringFocus);
if(stringFocus == "") {
System.out.println("Unable to get keyboard focus.");
throw new Exception("Unable to get keyboard focus.");
}
/*Get total connections present in the list*/
System.out.println("totalConnections: " + obj.control.controlListViewGetItemCount(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus)); // Error
/*Check if required connection is present or not in the connection list. If present, returns index position of element else -1.*/
System.out.println("Index of desired connection: " + obj.control.controlListViewFindItem(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, CONNECTION_NAME, "")); // Error
/*Check if desired connection in the list is selected or not*/
System.out.println("Connection selected: " + obj.control.controlListViewIsSelected(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, CONNECTION_NAME)); // Error
/*Get text of required connection*/ // not working
obj.control.sleep(2000);
System.out.println("controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, \"\", stringFocus, \"\", \"\"): " + obj.control.controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "", ""));
System.out.println("controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, \"\", stringFocus, \"0\", \"\"): " + obj.control.controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "0", ""));
System.out.println("controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, \"\", stringFocus, \"0\", \"0\"): " + obj.control.controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "0", "0"));
System.out.println("controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, \"\", stringFocus, \"0\", \"1\"): " + obj.control.controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "0", "1"));
System.out.println("controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, \"\", stringFocus, \"1\", \"\"): " + obj.control.controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "1", ""));
System.out.println("controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, \"\", stringFocus, \"1\", \"1\"): " + obj.control.controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "1", "1"));
obj.control.sleep(2000);
/*Change view to list view*/ // not working
obj.control.controlListViewSelectViewChange(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "list"); // No error but there was no change in the view
/*Clear list selection*/
obj.control.controlListViewSelectClear(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus); // Worked successfully
/*Select All*/
obj.control.controlListViewSelectAll(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "0", "1"); // Worked successfully
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception: " + e);
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Output of the above code is as follows:
/*Output for controlListViewGetItemCount() method*/
Exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException: getInt() only legal on Variants of type VariantInt, not 8
java.lang.IllegalStateException: getInt() only legal on Variants of type VariantInt, not 8
at com.jacob.com.Variant.getInt(Variant.java:650)
at autoitx4java.AutoItX.controlListViewInt(AutoItX.java:1492)
at autoitx4java.AutoItX.controlListViewGetItemCount(AutoItX.java:1518)
at autoit.AutoItExample2maven.TestAutoIt.main(TestAutoIt.java:88)
/*Output for controlListViewFindItem() method*/
Exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException: getInt() only legal on Variants of type VariantInt, not 8
java.lang.IllegalStateException: getInt() only legal on Variants of type VariantInt, not 8
at com.jacob.com.Variant.getInt(Variant.java:650)
at autoitx4java.AutoItX.controlListViewInt(AutoItX.java:1492)
at autoitx4java.AutoItX.controlListViewFindItem(AutoItX.java:1488)
at autoit.AutoItExample2maven.TestAutoIt.main(TestAutoIt.java:101)
/*Output for controlListViewIsSelected() method*/
Exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException: getInt() only legal on Variants of type VariantInt, not 8
java.lang.IllegalStateException: getInt() only legal on Variants of type VariantInt, not 8
at com.jacob.com.Variant.getInt(Variant.java:650)
at autoitx4java.AutoItX.controlListViewInt(AutoItX.java:1492)
at autoitx4java.AutoItX.controlListViewIsSelected(AutoItX.java:1567)
at autoit.AutoItExample2maven.TestAutoIt.main(TestAutoIt.java:129)
/*Output for controlListViewGetText() method*/
controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "", ""):
controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "0", ""):
controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "0", "0"):
controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "0", "1"):
controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "1", "")):
controlListViewGetText(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "1", "1"):
To solve above error I referred to source code of AutoItX.java, com.jacob.com.Variant Class and com.jacob.activeX.ActiveXComponent Class. I updated the above code as below:
public class TestAutoIt {
/*Choose the 'JACOB' dll based on the JVM bit version.*/
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final String APPLICATION_TITLE = "ABC";
final String CONNECTION_NAME = "APP Connection 1";
private AutoItX control;
{
/*Load the jacob dll.*/
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control = new AutoItX();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
TestAutoIt obj = new TestAutoIt();
/*Returns the ControlRef# of the control that has keyboard focus within a specified window.*/
String stringFocus = obj.control.controlGetFocus(APPLICATION_TITLE);
System.out.println("stringFocus: " + stringFocus);
if(stringFocus == "") {
System.out.println("Unable to get keyboard focus.");
throw new Exception("Unable to get keyboard focus.");
}
/*Get total connections present in the list*/
Variant vTitle1 = new Variant(APPLICATION_TITLE);
Variant vText1 = new Variant("");
Variant vControl1 = new Variant(stringFocus);
Variant vCommand1 = new Variant("GetItemCount");
Variant vFrom1 = new Variant("");
Variant vTo1 = new Variant("");
Variant[] params1 = new Variant[]{vTitle1, vText1, vControl1, vCommand1, vFrom1, vTo1};
Variant variantInst1 = activeXComponentInst.invoke("ControlListView", params1);
//System.out.println("variantInst1.toString(): " + variantInst1.toString());
int totalConnections = Integer.parseInt(variantInst1.toString());
System.out.println("totalConnections: " + totalConnections);
/*Check if required connection is present or not in the connection list. If present, returns index position of element else -1.*/
Variant vTitle2 = new Variant(APPLICATION_TITLE);
Variant vText2 = new Variant("");
Variant vControl2 = new Variant(stringFocus);
Variant vCommand2 = new Variant("FindItem");
Variant vConnectionName2 = new Variant(CONNECTION_NAME);
Variant vOption2 = new Variant("");
Variant[] params2 = new Variant[]{vTitle2, vText2, vControl2, vCommand2, vConnectionName2, vOption2};
Variant variantInst2 = activeXComponentInst.invoke("ControlListView", params2);
System.out.println("variantInst2.toString(): " + variantInst2.toString());
/*Check if desired connection in the list is selected or not*/
Variant vTitle4 = new Variant(APPLICATION_TITLE);
Variant vText4 = new Variant("");
Variant vControl4 = new Variant(stringFocus);
Variant vCommand4 = new Variant("IsSelected");
Variant vConnectionName4 = new Variant(CONNECTION_NAME);
Variant vOption42 = new Variant("");
Variant[] params4 = new Variant[]{vTitle4, vText4, vControl4, vCommand4, vConnectionName4, vOption42};
Variant variantInst4 = activeXComponentInst.invoke("ControlListView", params4);
System.out.println("\nvariantInst4.toString(): " + variantInst4.toString());
/*Get text of required connection*/
Variant vTitle3 = new Variant(APPLICATION_TITLE);
Variant vText3 = new Variant("");
Variant vControl3 = new Variant(stringFocus);
Variant vCommand3 = new Variant("GetText");
Variant vOption31 = new Variant("0");
Variant vOption32 = new Variant("0");
Variant[] params3 = new Variant[]{vTitle3, vText3, vControl3, vCommand3, vOption31, vOption32};
Variant variantInst3 = activeXComponentInst.invoke("ControlListView", params3);
System.out.println("\nvariantInst3.toString(): " + variantInst3.toString());
System.out.println("variantInst3.getString(): " + variantInst3.getString());
/*Change view to list view*/ // not working
obj.control.controlListViewSelectViewChange(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "list"); // No error but there was no change in the view
/*Clear list selection*/
obj.control.controlListViewSelectClear(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus); // Worked successfully
/*Select All*/
obj.control.controlListViewSelectAll(APPLICATION_TITLE, "", stringFocus, "0", "1"); // Worked successfully
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception: " + e);
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Output for the above code is as below:
/*Output for "Get total connections present in the list"*/
totalConnections: 2
/*Output for "Check if required connection is present or not"*/
variantInst2.toString(): -1
/*Output for "Check if desired connection in the list is selected or not"*/
variantInst4.toString(): 1
/*Output for "Get text of required connection"*/
variantInst3.toString():
variantInst3.getString():
1) (Output 1) I got correct output i.e. 2 for "Get total connections present in the list".
2) (Output 2) Now for checking if desired connection is present in list or not, I always get output as -1. Even if I give correct connection name, I get output as -1 only.
Can anybody please tell me that what am I doing wrong here?
3) (Output 3) To check if desired connection in the list is selected or not,
I always get output as 1. Here even if I give wrong connection name, I get output as 1 only i.e. desired connection is selected, which is wrong.
Can anybody please tell me that what am I doing wrong here?
4) (Output 4) Now for getting required text of a connection, I always get empty string as output.
Can anybody please tell me that what am I doing wrong here?
