unable to capture right click

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kalika_jain asked Apr 1, '09 amichaels converted comment to answer Oct 30, '15

unable to capture right click

Hii...

While navigating the device GUI , we need to select certain options bt right clicking on a particular tab. Though iTest is showing the options when we right click on the tab , its not able to capture those steps.

What can be done? ( I am using internal web browser)

Thanks

iTest GUI Testing(Web-Java Swing-etc)

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Answer 1 · 2009-04-20T23:32:49Z

MayH answered Apr 20, '09

iTest will not automatically capture right click actions. However, there is a workaround.

Looking at the source HTML/javascript, what's happening is that when a mouseup event is captured on a particular target, the mouse event gets filtered. If the button id is that of a right button, the context menu gets brought up on the screen.

What you need to do is to manually simulate a right click action, by creating a mouseup event, (with buttonId equals to 2 for right click), and dispatch it on the target.

Here's the procedure to "fake" the right click:

procedure

rightClick

eval

$session

var rightClickFunction = new Function("
	var element = document.getElementById('$elementId');
	var evt = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
	evt.initMouseEvent('mouseup', true, true, element.ownerDocument.defaultView, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 2, null);
	element.dispatchEvent(evt);
");

eval

$session

rightClickFunction();

And you'll call the procedure from your testcase:

call rightClick -session <sessionName> -elementId <targetElementId>

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Answer 2 · 2011-07-26T21:03:52Z

zbwu answered Jul 26, '11 zbwu posted Jul 26, '11

HI,

I have the same question , unable to capture right click.

I am using iTest v4.1.0 build55713 and internal web browser

While navigating the device GUI , we need to select certain options bt right clicking on a particular tab. Though iTest is showing the options when we right click on the tab , its not able to capture those steps.

And I try the example procedure to "fake" the right click, it seems not working.

What can be done?

Please find the attached screenshot and html source.

Thanks.

ScreenHunter_01 Jul. 26 13.58.gif (5.8 KiB)

rightclick.html (2.4 KiB)

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tomzhang commented · Sep 21, 2011 at 01:14 AM

Has this been solved? In general, how do you perform capture/replay of right-click, using internal browser.

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zbwu tomzhang commented · Sep 21, 2011 at 04:21 PM

No.

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Answer 3 · 2009-04-01T18:30:45Z

PreetS answered Apr 1, '09 amichaels converted comment to answer Oct 30, '15

I'm not sure how your application is designed, but standard HTML does not have a concept of a right click. Your page might be creating some dynamic HTML menu on right click on the node.

iTest will not capture the right click as such, but may capture the actual selection of the menu item. Can you confirm if that step (clicking on an option) gets captured? This may or may not replay fine.

I think, before I reccomend a work around, could you attach a screenshot of the page with the right click menu? and also the XML snapshot response of the page. (Go the the page and click o the snapshot button in the toolbar. Copy the response of that snapshot action and attach it)

This will help me figure out what might actually be going on behind the scenes.

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kalika_jain commented · Apr 06, 2009 at 05:55 AM

hiii...

Yes,Since its the webUI of a device,I think the page is dynamically generating the right click menu,according to the configurations of the device.

But the iTest is not even capturing the actual selection of the menu. Therefor its not able to find the fields on the next page( which is displayed after selection from the right click menu.) and hence the TC is not able to proceed further.

I am hereby attaching the scrrenshot and XML response of the right click page.

Thanks...

Message Edited by kalika_jain on 04-05-2009 11:03 PM

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right_click.jpg (157.6 KiB)

right_click_xml.txt (113.8 KiB)

KumarS kalika_jain commented · Apr 06, 2009 at 03:12 PM

It looks like a Java applet embedded inside the browser. iTest web application does not support applet testing directly.

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PreetS KumarS commented · Apr 06, 2009 at 05:14 PM

Looking at the XML snapshot, it is not a java applet.

iTest does not capture right click actions, however it would be possible to manually add a step or two to make these menu items work.

I'll study the javascript on the page and get back to you.

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kalika_jain PreetS commented · Apr 10, 2009 at 09:37 AM

Please resolve this query!!!!!

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PreetS kalika_jain commented · Apr 10, 2009 at 05:25 PM

From what I can see, iTest will actually capture the action of clicking the menu item. What iTest will not capture is the action of right clicking to bring up the menu.

If there is a way to call a javascript method to bring up the menu, then that would be a workaround. You can invoke the javascript method using the 'eval' action.

e.g. if there is a javascript method called showContexMenu() your test case steps will looke like

eval showContextMenu

click <xpath target to the menu item>

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