Can not get or set value of Spinner inputs

[jmaxxz]

FlaUI appears to be unable of getting or setting the value of a numeric spinner control in a windows forms application.

In UIA2 note that the edit control inside of the combo-box does not show up:

In UIA3 it shows up in the inspect tool:

However, the edit control which contains the value does not seem to be target-able by code

branch with spinner on win forms app

My attempts to select the current value:

        [Test]
        public void Spinner()
        {
            var comboBox = App.GetMainWindow(Automation).FindFirstDescendant(cf => cf.ByAutomationId("numericUpDown1"));
            Assert.IsNotNull(comboBox);

            var edit = comboBox.FindFirstDescendant(cf => cf.ByControlType(ControlType.Edit));
            Assert.IsNotNull(edit);

            var value = comboBox.AsComboBox().EditableText;
            Assert.AreEqual("42", value);

            var value2 = edit.AsTextBox().Text;
            Assert.AreEqual("42", value);
        }

[Roemer]

It seems that it is broken in UIA2. In UIA3, I can get the edit correctly and get/set values (Windows 10). I'll investigate a bit more but more but I guess there is nothing we can do.

[jmaxxz]

@Roemer test code does not work on my windows 10 environment, what code did you use to get/set values?

UIA3 works, a note to users using powershell remember to shutdown powershell ISE completely when switching form UIA2 to UIA3. A process that was using UIA2 can not use UIA3. (unless separate app domains are used?)

[Roemer]

var spinner = App.GetMainWindow(Automation).FindFirstDescendant(cf => cf.ByAutomationId("numericUpDown1"));
Assert.IsNotNull(spinner);
var edit = spinner.FindFirstDescendant(cf => cf.ByControlType(ControlType.Edit)).AsTextBox();
Assert.IsNotNull(edit);
edit.Text = "42";
Assert.AreEqual("42", edit.Text);

[Roemer]

You don't get min/max and such with that but at least the value.

[Roemer]

Problem was that UIA2 was loaded into the process already and then UIA3 was loaded (which then still worked on UIA2). So getting/setting the value works with UIA3.