How do I get the tooltip text?

[lueleeqa]

I'm testing a windows desktop application. There is a tooltip text when i hover over an icon of the application that tells me whether a connection is made or not. The icon is not labeled. I need to move over and get the tooltip text. Can someone give me an example?

This is the xpath to the icon "//Pane[@AutomationId="statusBarAdvPanelConnectionStatus"]"

Here's inspect.exe information in tooltip mode.

How found: ToolTip hwnd=0x00000000000D1792 64bit class="WindowsForms10.tooltips_class32.app.0.19fd5c7" style=0xFFFFFFFF94800003 ex=0x88 Name: "Connection is connected" ControlType: UIA_ToolTipControlTypeId (0xC366) LocalizedControlType: "tool tip" BoundingRectangle: {l:133 t:823 r:271 b:842} IsEnabled: true IsOffscreen: false IsKeyboardFocusable: true HasKeyboardFocus: false AccessKey: "" ProcessId: 7488 RuntimeId: [2A.D1792] FrameworkId: "WinForm"

[kicks321]

This functionality is interesting. So in order to solve this, what you're going to have to do is this:

In order to actually get the text, you're going to have to use the inspect tool in real-time:

For coding sake:

• Physically have your session move the mouse to that elements location like so in order to get the tool tip to display session.Mouse.MouseMove(element.FindElementByXPath("//Pane[@AutomationId="statusBarAdvPanelConnectionStatus"]").Coordinates);

• Check if that tooltip is displayed after hovering and then check for the tool tips text value if (element.FindElementByXPath("YOUR TOOLTIPS ATTRIBUTES GO HERE").Displayed) { Create some kind of assertion that checks if the tool tip text contains 'not connected' or 'connected' }

[dharmpawar92]

Did the above solution work ? If it is worked, Can you please post the solved code here. Kindly do the needful.

[serhatbolsu]

This doesnt work, I would be glad if anyone able to locate the tooltip, share the experience. So far I think the problem is that tooltip is not displayed within the context of main window

[kavyashreer23]

public string GetToolTipText(WindowsElement elementToHover, WindowsDriver<WindowsElement> session) { elementToHover.MouseHover(session); SwitchToWindow();

// Verify the Name as per Inspector tool
WindowsElement mouseHoverElements = (WindowsElement)session.FindElementByClassName("Popup").FindElementByClassName("ToolTip");

// Get Tooltip Text
tooltipText = mouseHoverElements.Text;
SwitchToParentWindow();
return tooltipText;

}

Helpers below:

public void MouseHover(WindowsElement elementToHover, WindowsDriver<WindowsElement> session) { Actions action = new Actions(session); action.MoveToElement(elementToHover).Perform(); }

public static void SwitchToWindow(WindowsDriver<WindowsElement> session) { parentWindowHandle = session.CurrentWindowHandle; var windowHandles = session.WindowHandles; foreach (var windowHandle in windowHandles) { if (windowHandle != parentWindowHandle) { session.SwitchTo().Window(windowHandle); break; } } }

public static void SwitchToParentWindow(WindowsDriver<WindowsElement> session) { session.SwitchTo().Window(parentWindowHandle); }

[serhatbolsu]

In my case the tooltip is using a class called WindowsForms10.tooltips_class32.app.0.13965fa_r6_ad1

I checked your example, it seem the tooltip is inside the application window context. However in my case, the tooltip is a separate top level window hence this method doesnt work.

Also I have tried being in the "Root" and searching tooltip however tooltip disappear before the xpath search works.

[soumikbasu19]

Have you found the solution? I am facing a similar issue like yours's @serhatbolsu . The tooltip appears in a separate top level window. Tried with being in the "Root" but no luck.

[liljohnak]

It's difficult because you need to wait for them to fully appear. More stable to .GetAttrributes("HelpText") from the element that is spawning the tooltip. If you must...

//for or while loop until not null tooltip
var toolTipPopup = rootwindowElement.FindElementsByClassName("Popup").FirstOrDefault();
//repeat another loop until TextBlock or Document is not null
//try the .Text property or .GetAttributes("Value.Value") to get the tooltip text