stuck at the beginning: how to compare text?

[schrauber]

Hi all,

first, my name is Thomas (or Tom for short) and I just started with macro sheduler. Normally I do manual tests, so now I am searching for a software to do automated GUI tests. So here I am, testing macro sheduler .

I have to say that I am an absolute newbie when it comes to programming or coding.

I will check the panels and labels in the GUI of correct wording, and later on I will check the translation too.

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Let>logfile=C:\Users\admin\Documents\testresults.log
GetTextInit
GetTextInRect>409,53,467,65,result
if>result={"TEXT"}
    TimeStamp>logfile, wording:Success
Elseif
    TimeStamp>logfile, wording:Failed
Endif

my idea is, to compare if the value from GetTextinRect has the correct text in it. If the text is "TEXT", the result is success, if not, it is failed. But it will not work.

When I use if>result= then the test failes, if I use if>result<> then the test will be successfull, even if the text in the panel ist not "TEXT". When I use "TEX" the test will still be successfull.

Hope you understand what I mean (sorry, I'm german, english is not my native language) and are able to give me a hint
And by the way, I already spend 2hrs in reading in this forum, but did not find the answer myself.


Thanks!

Cheers,
Tom

[JRL]

Most likely the text acquired using GetTextInRect> has invisible characters such as spaces, tabs or carriage returns. You can test this by putting the acquired text in a message box. after your GetTextInRect> line, add something like:

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MDL>***%result%***

I suspect the message box will display something like:

• ***TEXT
  ***

Indicating there is a carriage return being captured by the GetTextInRect> function. If there is a carriage return, you need to either remove that from the result:

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StringReplace>result,crlf,,result

Or test for its existence in the captured string:

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if>result=TEXT%crlf%
    TimeStamp>logfile, wording:Success
Else
    TimeStamp>logfile, wording:Failed
Endif

Note I removed the braces and quotes and also changed "ElseIf" to "Else"
Hope this makes sense. By the way, your English is very good.

[schrauber]

Thanks for the quick answer, and sorry for beeing late. Real life is a pain sometimes. Will test this at the weekend and come back to this thread with an update.

Thanks