Articles Tagged 'state'

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Reading an Object's State

Sometimes it is necessary to examine the state of an object. For example, determine if Toggle Button is pressed or not, Radio/Check Button is checked or not, etc. This guide describes a couple of different ways of achieving this.

Testing Win32 applications to verify that controls change display state

Sometimes you may have a button (or other control) that  can have a different appearance depending on the different focus statuses.
 
For example, the default status without focus is a grey image, whereas when the mouse hovering over it becomes blue. Then when the mouse left button is held down on the button (and not released), the image changes to a red image.
 
Finally, when the button is activated using the tab key to tab into the button and the mouse is somewhere else, it has a fourth color.

This article discusses solutions for how to test these kinds of situationю

Getting the State of a Win32 object using Rapise

Sometimes you need to be able to test the state of a specific Win32 object in Rapise to see if it is enabled, disabled, is activated, etc. This sample illustrates how to get the numeric and textual value of the object's state.

Some of my users are receiving 'Invalid Viewstate' errors. How do I resolve this?
Ask the user to clear out their browser's cache of cookies and stored internet pages/content. After they do this and then close and reopen their browser, the issue should be resolved.