Windows OS is full of windows, even objects inside windows as we know them are also windows. Each window has a handle that is a pointer to the memory in which information about the window is stored.
Questions tagged [window-handles]
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Get title of window without switching in selenium webdriver
Is there any way to get window title without making any switch in selenium?
presently I'm using below code:
public boolean switchToWindowByTitle(String title){
String currentWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();
Set availableWindows =…
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Windows creates events on thread shutdown
I am attempting to add handle leak detection to the unit test framework on my code. (Windows 7, x64 VS2010)
I basically call GetProcessHandleCount() before and after each unit test.
This works fine except when threads are created/destroyed as part…
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SetWindowPos not working for browsers - no MainWindowHandle?
I've been trying to make a simple program in C#, to launch different software, and move it to a specific screen, to be able to automatically set up different windows, on a machine with a total of 12 monitors.
Most of these windows is launched in…
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GUI Automation testing - Window handle questions
Our company is currently writing a GUI automation testing tool for compact framework applications. We have initially searched many tools but none of them was right for us.
By using the tool you can record test-cases and group them together to…
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Get child window handles in C#
I'm starting a process in C# and then sending Windows messages to that process with SendMessage. Usually I send the messages to Process.MainWindowHandle, but in some instances I might need to find a child window handle and send messages there…
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What programming practices affect the number of window handles?
I'm getting the runtime error "Error creating window handle". From my research, I know this error typically indicates that an application has exceeded Windows' 10,000 handle limit, and I should address the error by making sure handles aren't created…
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CreateFile Returns negative handle
Any ideas why the createfile() function would be returning -1.
Handle = CreateFile(filename, &H80000000, 0, 0, 3, &H80, 0)
This is run a few times. I was thinking perhaps maybe the file is not being closed properly?
EDIT
Err.LastllError returns 32.
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How to get the handle of the currently active tab with Selenium and Python
I want do find out what's the handle of the currently active chrome tab with Selenium. I can get all the handles with driver.window_handles and driver.current_window_handle to find out what handle selenium is focused on, but when i now change the…
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Data reset on Selenium tab change
While trying to use the data I get from one tab in the other tab with selenium, it resets the data when the tab changes, so I can't use the data. How can I prevent this?
My Code :
for link in linkler:
driver.get(link)
oyunAdi =…
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How to switch tabs using the expected conditions new_window_is_opened and verify the page title using Selenium and Python
I'm writing a test which goes through multiple pages and then verifies the title is being displayed. Currently my test is at the point where i can click a button and it opens a report. The problem is the report opens up in a new tab so i need my…
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EnumWindows and EnumChildWindows to keep my Treeview updated
I am trying to make a program similar to Winspector Spy. My problem is that I would like my Virtual Treeview to be updated at all times - that is, update it when a window is created, when a window is destroyed, etc. Of course, all external…
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Is there an event when the window handle is destroyed
Since the destruction of a window handle disables the invoke mechanism, I do want to unsubscribe to an background-worker that notifies me.
So is there an event that is fired shortly before the window handle of a windows form is closed.
( I have seen…
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How to switch window handles using Selenium and Python
If you click a link in a Windows program other than a web browser, a pop-up window appears. I want to get the url of this popup window. Pop-up windows will only open in IE.
driver =…
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How to get currently active tab index on Chrome via Selenium?
I'm creating app which is half-automated (user is opening tabs (attention) and if he wants to dump one of them he just clicks hot-key).
But when user opens to much tabs, I need to know to which one I should switch.
How can i get currenttab index.…
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How to find objects/handles in call stack frame is waiting upon "WaitForMultipleObjects"?
In Frame 2, kernel32!WaitForMultipleObjects+0x19 , win32 API call is waiting on multiple objects/handles.
In Windbg, how can we determine those handles for this specific frame?
0:012> k
# ChildEBP RetAddr 00 093ffba0 7510285f…
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