Ranorex Forum

Hi Team,

I have a problem regarding the object identification of MenuBar strip item.
The MenuBar strip object has some items but are not separately identifiable using ranorex. Ranorex can only identify the MenuBar strip for every item and to select/click on any of the item, it is to be selected using location of the item.

see the following image and warning on the left hand side in attached image.

Problem: I would like to select "File" item from the menubar but can not select it. only selection possiblity is to select on location of menubar. Is it possible to select item from menubar with clicking on location.

Thanks for your feedback...
Regards,

Hi,

Did you take a look at the link which was provided by the technology limitation warning?
If not please take a look at the mentioned points on the General Troubleshooting section of the User Guide.
Do you have sufficient security privileges, what happens if you start the Spy as administrator?
Which Ranorex version are you using?
Can you send us a Ranorex Snapshot file of your application?
Following link will show you how to generate a snapshot file:
Creating Ranorex Snapshot Files.

Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team

Hi Team,

Yes I checked every possibility from technology limitation but doesn't help.....
I am logged in as an Administrator but nothing seems to be working....
I am using the lastest version of Ranorex. It is: 3.3.1.18438 and .NET version 4.0

I have send the snapshot file of the application @ ur support team.
Thanks for your feedabck.

Regards,
Sunil

Hi,

Thanks for the snapshot!
Did you also explicitly start the Ranorex Spy as administrator "Run as administrator"?
Is there an antivirus or a firewall running on your machine? If yes, can you turn it off and check if Ranorex is then able to identify the elements?
Please also turn the UAC off and check if that has any influence on your app.
You wrote that the .Net 4.0 framework is installed on your computer, may I ask which version of the framework is installed, the full or the client version?

Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team

Hi Markus,

1. Yes I also started the Ranorex spy as adminsitrator using "Run as administrator".
2. There is no antivirus or any firewall running on the machine.
3. I also tuned off the UAC but nothing changed...
4. Both version of .NET 4 are installed on machine --> .Net 4 Client Profile and .Net 4 Extended.

Thanks for your feedback....
Regards,
Sunil

Hello Sunil,

Do you have this problem also in other applications, e.g. windows calculator?
In some versions of Windows 7 (e.g. OEM versions) is the oleacc.dll not registered correctly. This DLL is necessary for Ranorex to work correctly.
Please try the following steps to register the DLL.

Open the Start Menu in Windows
Type the following string into the 'Search programs and files' text box: regsvr32 \Windows\System32\oleacc.dll
Restart Windows and try to track the elements.

Regards,
Bernhard
Ranorex Support Team

Hi,

1. I don't have any problem identifying objects with other applications.
2. the oleacc.dll is alreday registered under windows/system32 !

Regards,
Sunil

Hello Sunil,

Does this problem only occur on your PC or are there more PC's with this problem?

Please try to uninstall Ranorex completely and install it again. Please make sure that all prerequisites are installed properly. If you download the zip file from our download archive you will find the setup.exe file. You can also download the Ranorex-X.X.X.exe file to install Ranorex.
If you do so all necessary prerequisites will be installed.
Don't use the Ranorex-x.x.x.x.msi because then the prerequisites will not be installed.

Regards
Bernhard
Ranorex Support Team

Hi Team,

Here, I am not sure if the real problem is about re-installation.
while spying my context menu, the "ContolType" of menu items is not "MenuItems" but is "ToolStripDropDownMenu". Is there any Ranorex inbuilt control which support this Windows Form control as well. I am not sure if I can change the control "ToolStripDropDownMenu" to normal Ranorex "MenuItem" or Do I?

The problem is not onyl identifying Items from ContextMenu but also Items from MenuBar. In both controls, spy doesn't show any child items. The Test application is written in C#. The class name for both control is "WindowsFroms10.Window.8.app.0.33c0d9d". May be this class could be a wall to identify elements!!


any further suggestions...
Sunil

Hello Sunil,

It is hard to reproduce this issue. Is it possible to give us access to the application?

Regards
Bernhard
Ranorex Support Team