I have a weird problem that after installing software apps on my computer, I cannot seem to be able to click on the menus.
I can actually click on the menus but this doesn't invoke the menu commands, i.e perform analyses or show drop down menu items. I can however access these commands using the respective keyboard shortcuts.
I can use many apps on my computer but this problem pertains to specific analytical apps, namely SPSS and Tableau.
Any help will be appreciated.
If this is happening in multiple apps, it must be an issue with your OS/hardware or something general and not an issue with specific applications.
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We are trying to automate the installation testing using UFT.
But, UFT is not capturing the installshield screens when we click on record.
Any suggestions?
It is just showing empty test case when we click on record.
Even manual creation of scripts also not showing.
Installshield setup.exe uses internally msiexec.exe.
Does it effect anything as the background process name is changing?
Have you selected Record and run test on any open Windows-based application in the Record -> Record and Run Settings?
If you have and it still doesn't work, it may be that the installation is running in a higher security level than UFT.
You could try using UFT's Insight option in order to work around this.
I have a task pane add-in in Office.
I have an item in the task pane, and a delete button. Now, when users click on the delete button, I want to pop up a small window to ask if users are sure about the deletion. If yes, we continue; if no, we go back to the current page.
It is like the Window confirm() method for a web page.
Does anyone know how to pop up this small window in the task pane add-in?
Additionally, if I want users to choose an option in this popup window (eg, choosing a colour between blue or red) before continuing (let's forget yes or no), how could we realise this? More generally, is it possible to create a custom confirm box?
As you design and build web apps for Office 365 or add-ins for Office and SharePoint, you can take advantage of the Office UI toolkit to make your experience look and feel like Office. The Office UI toolkit has key plug and play components that will make it easy to create web experiences that connect to and integrate with Office.
One of the controls offered by Office Fabric JS package is Dialog which has a lot of customization. I believe you'll find one suitable for your task.
Yet another option is to use any UI package which has variety of UI controls, for example jQuery mobile. And finally you may just write your own control.
I am trying to make an app that can enable/disable the auto rotate feature on certain apps.
I have no idea if it's even possible to tell my app to access the users "App Drawer" to select certain apps. It's hard to explain but the best example that i can think of makes sense if you have used Tasker. In Tasker, when you start a new profile it brings up "Application" "Day" "Event" etc. and when you select "Application" a big grid menu pops up with all of the Apps that are in the users phone and it's titled "App Selection" I want to use something exactly like this but have no idea about how to go about it. Any advice would be appreciated or a link to any video that might help. Thank you very much for reading this!
I can answer part of your question.
1. To get the list of installed application you can use PackageManager
2. You can then create a view in which you put them in a gridview of some sort. (Using Packagemanager you can get its icon, package name etc)
I am using Visual Studio 2012 and can easily create a single page application. I would like to create a second page and have it appear to the right of the main page. Windows Phones will give you a little peek into the next page and you can swipe the screen to switch pages. How can this be done? I think it needs to be more than handling an event, because of the peek/preview we can see on the right edge.
Are you thinking of a panorama control? This sounds like what you're talking about, although another option in most situations is a pivot control.
If you want to see a a part of the next page you need to use Panorama control
You can use Panorama Control in WP8 SDK for this. Start with the Windows Phone Panorama App template in Create New Project in VS: How to create a Panorama Windows Phone App.
The PIVOT CONTROL is more manageable than the PANORAMA.
Panorama cannot navigate programmatically from one page to another, while the pivot control allows you that! [see here for implementation]
See pivot control example and compare with panorama example if you will.
I've built a simple Excel tool that uses the additional Calendar Control(mscal.ocx). Everything worked out fine, on different systems, however, the calendar seems not to be implemented and instead of just not showing the date picker, the whole form crashes.
Is there a way to implement the calendar control so that it runs on every system? Or do I have to code a datepicker myself?
(Office12)
Whenever you're using controls that aren't native to all operating systems and versions of excel, you're asking for trouble on other computers. Often, when developing, you'll have access to forms that don't exist on most systems, and only exist on yours because you have Visual Studio installed, or a special Microsoft Office package. Whenever such a problem occurs you have 3 choices:
Work your ass of to try and package the missing controls (mscal.ocx), and try to create a deployment script for your users which will copy it to the System32 directory and register it. This is a pain because there is usually a large chain of dependencies for a single control.
Deal with the fact that some systems won't support your tool and warn users upfront or provide a virtual machine that they can access that and that your tool will run on.
Reinvent whatever fancy control you're using with basic buttons, list-boxes, drop-downs, images, etc, which is the biggest pain of all and often requires you to compromise some nice functionality.
I've had to do number 3 countless times for excel 2007 tools that work on XP systems, but not Vista+ where certain ActiveX controls (i.e. Datagrid) are no longer supported.
i would build against Excel 10 (2003) as not everyone might have new Office 12 (2010).
or see if you can reference that ocx locally and deploy with your excel file
You can do this without the calendar controls.
Like this example here