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Record menu
Recorded Actions
The Recorded Actions list box displays your interactions with your
application as 4Test statements. Furthermore, the list box provides all the
editing capabilities of the SilkTest editor, so you can manipulate any actions
you record.
4Test statements have this format:
fully-qualified-object-name
.
method
.
After recording one or more actions, you might want to
·
Add a verification statement or a method for a GUI object by positioning
the mouse cursor over the GUI object and pressing Ctrl+Alt.
·
Halt recording to bring your application to another state before
continuing to record actions. (This avoids recording of extraneous
statements.) Press the Pause Recording pushbutton.
·
Insert the statements in the Recorded Actions list box into a script file.
Press Paste to Editor, or Copy to Clipboard and related commands.
·
Delete the statements from the list box, for example, because you
recorded the wrong actions. Press Clear All.
Keep on Top
If checked, keeps the Record Actions dialog in the foreground even when you
are tracking the cursor over your application.
Default is checked.
Pause Recording/
Resume Recording
Pause Recording/Resume Recording is a toggle pushbutton that suspends or
continues the recording of your interactions with your application. Typically,
you use Pause Recording to halt recording while you bring your application
to the correct state before beginning recording again. Typically, you use
Resume Recording after pasting recorded actions into the editor.
Ctrl+Alt (Ctrl+Shift)
To add a verification statement or method for an object, position the mouse
cursor over the object and press Ctrl+Alt. (Press Ctrl+Shift if you changed
the hotkey in Recorder Options.)
For more information, see "Recording the verification stage" on page 112.