Spying a List control Grid on a Windows Application

[AsmitaAute1]

Hi, we are having problem while spying Cell values in Grid on windows application. Class name of grid is showing as "CListControlGrid". Application on which grid element is present is an 32 bit and Blue prism which we are using is 32 bit Version 5 application and machine is 64 bit windows sever 2012. we have tried application hooking but it is not working. Is there any other method to spy this grid. Thank you.

[Denis__Dennehy]

From a quick google I would say this app could have been developed using legacy Delphi and how accessibile that application is will depend upon specific accessibility efforts taken by it's developer rather than it being accessibile out of the box. If Accessibility Mode does not allow you to identify anything (including trying to use Accessibility Navigator to see if the element is embedded in some way) - then the only way to interact with the grid will be by using Surface Automation techniques (similar to those in the notes list/grid in the SA training exercises). One thing to look for is if the application has any option to export the information in the grid to a file (i.e. xls/xml/csv) - if so you could use that and then suck the file data into your Blue Prism object logic.

[AsmitaAute1]

Hi Denis, It seems that we are not able to spy using accessibility Navigator option so we are trying using surface automation. so can you tell us how to scrap grid data using SA. Grid is having scroll bar and from that grid we have to scrap all cell values with red background also can you tell us use of List region and how to use it in SA. Thank You.