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Hi Sir please describe, How to handle window GUI in the application with selenium?

for e.g.- while chosing a file to upload.
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Windows GUI can not be handelled by Selenium. Selenium is just a browser automation tool. It will help you imitate  user actions on browser. E.g. entering values into text box, click on the button, switching the iframe, etc. Basically, selenium has JavaScripts as its core. So whatever you can handle using JavaScript, you can handle it using Selenium. Anything beyond the scopre of JavaScript can not be handeled by Selenium.

So, you will have to use thrid party tools like AutoIT or Sikuli to automate your GUI.

Here is the sample of the code to handle save dialog for IE.

 

; set the select mode to select using substring
AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode","2")
 
if $CmdLine[0] < 2 then
 ; Arguments are not enough
 msgbox(0,"Error","Supply all the Arguments, Dialog title,Save/Cancel and Path to save(optional)")
 Exit
EndIf

; wait until dialog box appears
WinWait($CmdLine[1]) ; match the window with substring
$title = WinGetTitle($CmdLine[1]) ; retrives whole window title
WinActive($title);

; if user choose to save file
If (StringCompare($CmdLine[2],"Save",0) = 0) Then

 WinActivate($title)
 WinWaitActive($title)
 Sleep(1)

 ; If firefox is set the save the file on some specific location without asking user.
 ;Save the File
 send("{TAB}")
 Send("{ENTER}")
 if ( StringCompare(WinGetTitle("[active]"),$title,0) = 0 ) Then
  WinActivate($title)
  send("{TAB}")
  Send("{ENTER}")
 EndIf

 ;if firefox is set to prompt user for save path.
 if WinExists("Enter name") Then
  $title = WinGetTitle("Enter name")
  if($CmdLine[0] = 2) Then
  ; If user hasn't provided path to save
  ;save to default path.
  WinActivate($title)
  ControlClick($title,"","Button2")

  Else
  ; If user has provided path 
  ;Set path and save file
  WinActivate($title)
  WinWaitActive($title)
  ControlSetText($title,"","Edit1",$CmdLine[3])
  ControlClick($title,"","Button2")
  EndIf

 Else
  ;Firefox is configured to save file at specific location
  Exit
 EndIf

EndIf
; do not save the file
If (StringCompare($CmdLine[2],"Cancel",0) = 0) Then
 WinWaitActive($title)
 Send("{ESCAPE}")
EndIf

 

Hope that helps!


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