Contents tagged with CCF
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CCF: Listening to External Application Events
It is often necessary to listen to external application UI events when automating applications in CCF. For example, we may need to save a value in the Context if the user presses a button, or do something when an alert dialog appears. There are many ways we can handle events. In CCF 2008, the Hosted Application Toolkit (HAT) provides an easy way to listen to them. If not using HAT we can hook to events using the UIAutomation or MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) APIs within our own application adapters.
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CCF HAT - Making use of DDAs from Legacy Adapters
Although Data Driven Adapters (DDAs) are mainly designed for Automation Adapters in HAT, we can make use of them from legacy adapters, too. Here's an example of an external VB application, which is configured to use a legacy application adapter and a WinDataDrivenAdapter with the corresponding bindings:
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CCF 2008 Hosted Application Toolkit
The Hosted Application Toolkit (HAT) is a new component of CCF 2.6 (2008) that facilitates the task of automating the UI of the hosted applications. It consists of two main parts: the Data Driven Adapters (DDA) and the Automations (WF workflows) that automates the hosted application using the DDAs.
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CCF 2008 New Features
The 3.0 version of the Customer Care Framework (CCF) is out! Among its new features we'll find: