I'm currently trying to produce the opposite effect of the Selection.SelectCell method.
Here is my code:
public void getCellContent()
{
Word.Selection currentSelection = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.Selection;
currentSelection.SelectCell();
newKey = currentSelection.Text; //global variable
currentSelection.Collapse();
}
Collapse Method set the cursor to the start of the cell.
Even if I set Collapse direction parameter to the end, the cursor going to the next cell.
My purpose is to be able to save content of a word table cell each time I type up in it (wihtout cell changing).
best regards,
Chefty.
You won't be able to set the cursor at the end of a text inside the cell of a Word table. Not without moving from a cell to another.
The only way to do that would have been using the following code:
currentSelection.Collapse(Word.WdCollapseDirection.wdCollapseEnd);
currentSelection.MoveLeft(Word.WdUnits.wdCharacter, 1);
Don't do it. Given the fact this would get called each time you type a character, it won't be fast and efficient enough and you will end up typing characters in the next cell.
You should save the content of your cell just once, when you change the selection on your own. When you type your first character, use the following code :
currentCell = currentSelection.Range.Cells[1]; //index always starts at 1, not 0
And when you click on another cell (you will maybe have to use Win32 API to catch such an event), don't forget to do :
currentCell.Select();
string currentCellContent = currentSelection.Text;
After that, you still end up with a selected cell, and still need to use currentSelection.Collapse(), but at least you got the content of your cell, and this by performing one save per edit.
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I'm trying to fill a table using the selenium drivers and all the documentations I could find only shows how to retrieve data from the cells. I'm able to access my table cells using:
var rows = Driver.FindElement(By.Id("Products")).FindElements(By.XPath("id('Products')/tbody/tr"));
var cells = tableRows[1].FindElements(By.XPath("td"));
But I couldn't find any way to update the data that's in it. The "Text" property only has a Get method and the SendKeys() function doesn't work. How can I edit the cell's value?
As a side note, my cell contains an html "input", I've tried to access it with the FindElement function of the cell but for some reasons it cannot find it.
Generally speaking, SendKeys should work if the cell indeed contains the input element. But because you're also saying that you fail to find the input element, I suspect that the input element does not exist in each cell all the time. You should probably first click on the cell in order for the input element to appear on that cell. You should be able to verify it using the Dev Tools if you inspect the element before clicking it.
IWebElement doesn't provide a method to change text, but you could use a little bit of JS - something little like :
((IJavaScriptExecutor)Driver).ExecuteScript("document.getElementByXXXXX.innerHTML = "VALUE";");
https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/dotnet/html/M_OpenQA_Selenium_IJavaScriptExecutor_ExecuteScript.htm
I am trying to refer to an existing end note in word from a table cell in the document thus (using netoffice):
row.Cells[2].Range.InsertCrossReference(WdReferenceType.wdRefTypeEndnote, WdReferenceKind.wdEndnoteNumberFormatted, 1);
However, this appears to put the reference at the beginning of the row, rather than at the end of the text at Cell[2]. In general, I haven't found much help on the web on how to programmatically add a cross-reference to footnotes and end notes. How can I get the reference to display properly?
The problem is that the target Range specified in your code snippet is the entire cell. You need to "collapse" the Range to be within the cell. (Think of the Range like a Selection. If you click at the edge of a cell, the entire cell is selected, including its structural elements. If you then press left-arrow, the selection is collapsed to a blinking I-beam.)
To go to the start of the cell:
Word.Range rngCell = row.Cells[2].Range;
rngCell.Collapse(Word.WdCollapseDirection.wdCollapseStart);
rngCell.InsertCrossReference(WdReferenceType.wdRefTypeEndnote, WdReferenceKind.wdEndnoteNumberFormatted, 1);
If the cell has content and you want it at the end of the content, then you use wdCollapseEnd instead. The tricky part about that is this puts the target point at the start of the next cell, so it has to be moved back one character:
Word.Range rngCell = row.Cells[2].Range;
rngCell.Collapse(Word.WdCollapseDirection.wdCollapseEnd);
rng.MoveEnd(Word.WdUnits.wdCharacter, -1);
rngCell.InsertCrossReference(WdReferenceType.wdRefTypeEndnote, WdReferenceKind.wdEndnoteNumberFormatted, 1);
I have a datagridview with textboxcell. When I enter the cell and type a string it only shows the last char of the string. It replaces the last char with the new char.
In order to write a complete string I need to click on other cell of any other part in the form, and then double click the textbox cell again and I can write a whole string.
Does anyone have an idea why is that?
I recently ran into this behavior due to executing datagridview1.CommitEdit(DataGridViewDataErrorContexts.Commit) in the grid's CurrentCellDirtyStateChanged event handler. Any time I typed, it would only display one character, and I'd have to click out of the cell and back in to add additional text beyond the 1st character.
In my case, I'd added this code a while back to solve a problem that no longer existed, and had forgotten to remove it. Removing it resolved this behavior.
im making a Coded UI test in Visual Studio 2010 for a web application in C# and i wish to click a button in the 6th column of a table based on the inner text of column 1? is this possible?
So for instance i have a table with Names in column one and other info and then a button in column 6. All auto generated.
Im assuming if i can get the Row number from the cell with say "John Smith" in it i can then press the button for this row in column 6.
Any ideas? i have tried googling and looking at what parameters i can pass in but im coming up stumped.
Something based on the following may help.
Access the HTML table by copying code from that generated by the Coded UI recorder for an assertion or a click on the cells. You should have something like:
HtmlCell theTable = new HtmlCell(this.UItheWindow.UItheTable.UIItemTable);
Cells of the table can be accessed by adding properties such as:
theTable.FilterProperties[HtmlCell.PropertyNames.RowIndex] = "0";
theTable.FilterProperties[HtmlCell.PropertyNames.ColumnIndex] = "6";
UITestControl cell = theTable.Find();
HtmlCell wantedCell = (HtmlCell)cell;
The above might be used as the body of a method returning the value of wantedCell. The name should now be available as:
wantedCell.InnerText;
Accessing the button to be clicked should follow a similar approach.
Another approach uses the GetChildren method to traverse the table. Start by getting theTable as above. Then have something like
UITestControlCollection children = theTable.GetChildren();
Loop through the children checking row properties. When the required row is found, call the GetChildren of that row and get the loop through them to find the required column. Some points: You may need to loop on columns before looping over rows. You may be able to directly index into the UITestControlCollection for the rows and the columns rather than needing to loop and check values. Depending on exactly how the table was written there may be additional levels between the table and the wanted cells, so you may need to examine children, grand children, great grand children, great great ..., and so on.
I have a couple of extension methods that I use to tackle content in tables(Hand coding, rather than using the recorder) -
This extension method for a table gets the first row in the table that contains the requested text in one of its cells or controls
public static HtmlRow GetRow(this HtmlTable table, string cellContent)
{
if((UITestControl)table == (UITestControl)null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("table");
if(cellContent.Length > 80)
cellContent = cellContent.Substring(0, 80); //Our table cells only display the first 80 chars
//Locate the first control in the table that has the inner text that I'm looking for
HtmlControl searchControl = new HtmlControl(table);
searchControl.SearchProperties.Add(PropertyNames.InnerText, cellContent);
//Did we find a control with that inner text?
if(!searchControl.TryFind())
{
//If not, the control might be an HtmlEdit with the text
HtmlEdit firstTableEdit = new HtmlEdit(table);
//Get all of the HtmlEdits in the table
UITestControlCollection matchingEdits = firstTableEdit.FindMatchingControls();
//Iterate through them, see if any have the correct text
foreach (UITestControl edit in matchingEdits)
{
if(cellContent == ((HtmlEdit)edit).Text)
searchControl = (HtmlControl)edit;
}
}
//We have(hopefully) found the control in the table with the text we're searching for
//Now, we spiral up through its parents until we get to an HtmlRow
while (!(searchControl is HtmlRow))
{
searchControl = (HtmlControl)searchControl.GetParent();
}
//The control we're left with should be an HtmlRow, and should be an Ancestor of a control that has the correct text
return (HtmlRow)searchControl;
}
Once you're able to get the correct row, it becomes relatively easy to get the correct control in that row(Or the correct control in a given cell in that row)
In your example, you've got a button in the 6th column of the row. The button probably has some properties associated with it, but even without them if we can correctly limit our search it will still work. Assume our table is named UITableCustomers - Declare a new button and limit it to only the 6th(Index 5) cell in the row containing "John Smith"
Mouse.Click(new HtmlInputButton(UITableCustomers.GetRow("John Smith").Cells[5]));
Obviously, this call is going to fail if the given text doesn't exist in a control in the table.
Your question is not very clear to me but check out the documentation on jQuery.trigger
This method will let you emulate a clickevent. I hope this is what you need.
As a question similar to this question, I also have an application with a DataGridView on it. I would like to position the rows such that a specific row is at the bottom of the visible part of the list.
This is in response to a button click that moves a row down by one. I want to maintain the selection on the row I'm moving (I already have this part working). If there are lots of rows, the selected row might move below the visible area. I want to scroll down until it's at the bottom of the visible area.
There does not appear to be a LastDisplayedScrollingRowIndex companion to FirstDisplayedScrollingRowIndex.
Any ideas? Thanks.
As my own guess, I think I need to use FirstDisplayedScrollingRowIndex and the number of rows visible in the DataGridView to calculate the new FirstDisplayedScrollingRowIndex. Maybe I just need to find out what the NumberOfVisibleRows property is called?
Found it. DisplayedRowCount:
if (dataGridView.FirstDisplayedScrollingRowIndex + dataGridView.DisplayedRowCount(false) <= selectedRowIndex)
{
dataGridView.FirstDisplayedScrollingRowIndex =
selectedRowIndex - dataGridView.DisplayedRowCount(false) + 1;
}
Code tested and working in my own project.
The DisplayedRowCount method will tell you how many rows are displayed on screen. Set the parameter value to true to include partial rows.
var displayedRows = myDataGridView.DisplayedRowCount(false);