UI Explorer

To explore the structure of application interfaces (web and desktop on Windows), Primo Studio has a tool called UI explorer.

To get started, click the Refresh Tree button .

Let’s examine the explorer interface using a desktop application as an example. After the Refresh tree command, the explorer will begin exploring all running applications and display the structure of each one that has a graphical interface. The tree of controls will be displayed on the left side of the panel:

When you select a control, information about its attributes will be displayed on the right side:

This information is useful when building templates for finding components in desktop applications.

The explorer allows you to explore the structure of a web application in a similar way.

The selected elements are moved to the template using the buttons and .

Functions

Button - refreshes the application tree.

Button - in desktop applications, updates information about controls with a delay of 10 seconds. This function is useful for capturing the main and context menus of applications.

Button - copies the search template of the selected element to the clipboard.

Button - adds a new search line to the current template.

Button - moves the selected attribute to the current search template.

Button - searches for the entered information in the tree of components, starting from the selected element.