Window Properties for Desktop Applications

This is how Window tab of the Flow Pane appears for desktop applications:

Each set of window data collected for an action taken on a desktop application contains the following editable properties:

• Class name: A set of attributes defined by the application developer and used to generate a window on the user’s screen. Every window is a member of a certain window class.

  • The window class name is captured automatically in the step’s window properties:

    • the Class name checkbox is selected

    • the dropdown list is set to the Equals option; and

    • the text field is filled in with the class of the window in which the step was performed

      For some windows, the window class differs when you open that window in different operating systems or web browsers.

      For some applications, the window class changes every time you launch that window.

• Caption: The text that appears in the window title bar

  • The window caption is captured automatically in the step's window properties:

    • the Caption checkbox is selected;

    • the dropdown list is set to the Equals option; and

    • the text field is filled in with the full caption of the window in which the step was performed

      Some captions are user-specific:

      

For information about how to edit window detection properties, see Editing Window Properties.