Windows

Window Explorer

This tool allows you to peek at the window structure of an application, giving information about the UI elements and their position in the hierarchy. Use this tool to find out the class of a certain window, or its parent-child relationship with other windows. Window Explorer can also display information about Accessibility objects.

Drag the target cursor over windows belonging to other applications to see information about them. If the 'Acc' tab is selected then the tree contains the accessible objects hierarchy, otherwise it contains the structure of standard windows.

• click to refresh the window tree;
• enables/disables the use of MS Accessibility;
• keeps this window on top of other windows.

Code

This is where you edit your test scripts. The editor will determine the script's language based on the file extension and will highlight numbers, strings, comments and keywords. When you click the Go button or press F5 the script in the active code window will get executed. The editor will also display or if an enabled/disabled breakpoint is set on the current line, and on the line where the script was interrupted.

Here are some useful keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl + F: Brings up the Find dialog and prefills it with the current selection.
• Ctrl + H: Brings up the Replace dialog and prefills it with the current selection.
• Ctrl + F3: Searches the selected text through the document; if nothing is selected then it searches the current word under cursor.
• Ctrl + Shift + F3: Same as Ctrl + F3, but searches backwards.
• F3: Repeats the last search forward in the document.
• Shift + F3: Repeats the last search backwards.
• Ctrl + DEL: Deletes the word and whitespace to the right of the cursor.
• Ctrl + BACKSPACE: Deletes the word and whitespace to the left of the cursor.
• TAB (while more lines are selected): Indents the selected lines by adding a tab at the beginning of each one.
• Shift + TAB (while more lines are selected): Unindents the selected lines by removing tabs and whitespace from the beginning of each one.

Breakpoints

The list of breakpoints currently set can be seen in the breakpoints window. Double-clicking a breakpoint will open the relevant source file. Setting/clearing the checkbox will enable/disable the breakpoint. Pressing DEL will remove the selected breakpoint.

Call Stack

When the script is stopped at a breakpoint it displays the hierarchy of calls from the script entry point up to the current function. Double-clicking on a different level in the call stack will reveal the local variables in the calling function and will recalculate the values in the Watch window in the new context.

Variables

When the script is stopped at a breakpoint it displays a list of local variables (in the current function context). To change the context to one of the calling functions double click on the relevant level in the Call Stack window. Pressing ENTER or F2, or double clicking a variable will allow editing its value. Editing must be done with caution because the script syntax allows changing the type of a variable by setting its value.

Watch

Allows evaluating expressions in the current execution context, as set from the Call Stack window. The expression can be any script expression or statement valid in the current language.

Results

This window will display error and informational messages coming from the framework or logged from the script via Env.LogInfo, LogError or LogWarning. Along with each message there will be a link to the source file and line that was executing when the message was reported. Clicking this link will display the relevant source file.

Threads

Displays the list of script execution threads, their current state and their location.