WinForm controls

A control is a screen element in your application that you want to test. For example, a text box or a table. This topic lists all WinForm controls that Tosca Cloud supports:

• Standard controls

• WinForm-specific controls

Standard controls

Tosca Cloud supports the following standard controls for WinForm: 

• Button

• Checkbox

• Combobox

• Label

• Link

• Listbox

• Menu

• Radio button

• Textbox

• Tree view

WinForm-specific controls

In addition to the standard controls listed in this topic, Tosca Cloud also supports the following controls:

ContextMenu

To steer context menus, use the standard module TBox Context Menu. You can find the module in the left pane of the test case building area, under Modules.

DatePicker

Tosca Cloud scans the DatePicker forms Long, Short, and Custom, and identifies them all as Text. You can input or buffer DatePicker values.

To steer a DatePicker, follow these steps:

1. For the Value, enter the date in the format that your application under test requires.

2. For the DataType, select Date.

GroupBox

You can steer the controls inside GroupBoxes just like any other standard controls.

ListView

There are different ListView types:

• You can steer the type Details as a tables.

• You can steer other types such as LargeIcon, List, SmallIcon or Tile as a listbox.

Additionally, you can verify these properties:

Property	Description
Selected	Verifies whether the entry is selected.
Focused	Verifies whether the entry is focused.

RichTextBox

Tosca Cloud identifies RichTextBoxes as textboxes.

TabControl

Tosca Cloud identifies TabControls as tabcontrols.

You can additionally verify these properties:

TabControl property	Description
SelectedTab	Verifies the name of the selected tab.
TabCount	Verifies the number of tabs.
SelectedIndex	Verifies the index of the selected tab.

Every TabControl has Tab Items. For Tab Items, you can additionally verify these properties:

Tab Item property	Description
Name	Verifies the tab name.
Selected	Verifies whether the tab is selected (boolean).
TabIndex	Verifies the tab index.

Toolbar

Tosca Cloud identifies Toolbars like this:

• The ToolBar itself as a menu.

• The controls in the ToolBar as MenuItems. You can select a menu entry directly, by entering the value x or X, or no value. You can also enter a path, separating nodes by ->.

Use the property Pushed to verify whether a ToolBar control is selected at runtime.

ToolStrip

ToolStrips are containers that contain other controls. You can steer the controls inside the ToolStrip just like any other standard controls.