iOS - UI Automation get textfield by accessibility label?

Question

So in my nib file i enabled accessibility and set the accessibility label of a textfield to "txt" I am trying to find this textfiled based on accessibility name and change its text.

var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var application = target.frontMostApp(); 
var mainWindow = application.mainWindow();
mainWindow.logElementTree();

// This works
var textField = mainWindow.textFields()[0];

//this doesn't work
var textField = mainWindow.textFields()["txt"];

textField.setValue("Hello");

Am I doing anything wrong? How can I find a label based on accessibility label?

EDIT:

I am open to other solutions as well, I am trying to avoid getting the textfield based on the index

It works fine after setting the accessibilityLebel in the code. But why it doesn't work when it is set in the Interface Builder? Could u give any details? — , Jan 11 '12 at 10:31

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '11 at 01:42

I have a similar problem and setting the accessibility label value in the code instead in the nib file solve my problem. For example, I have a UITextField that I need to access in my UIAutomation script, I would have to set the accessibility label value in the viewDidLoad method as shown below.

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
    testTxtField.accessibilityLabel = @"myTxtBox";
}

and below is my UIAutomation Script

var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var application = target.frontMostApp(); 
var mainWindow = application.mainWindow();
mainWindow.logElementTree();

// This works
//var textField = mainWindow.textFields()[0];

// Now, this work too.
var textField = mainWindow.textFields()["myTxtBox"];
textField.setValue("Hello");

UIALogger.logMessage("Text field:" + textField.label());

iOS - UI Automation get textfield by accessibility label?

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