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Sub Activity – Windows

Windows includes activities for managing application windows. It allows automation to interact with, move, resize, minimize, maximize, and verify window states.

The Windows category has the following sub activities:

Close: This activity closes a specified Window.

Element Properties:

  • Window: Window variable that holds the window you want.

Get Active Window: This activity helps to retrieve the current active Window and performs multiple actions within it.

Output Properties:

  • ActiveWindow: Window variable that has found an active window.

Get Position: This activity retrieves the bounding rectangle of a specified UI element.

Window Properties:

  • Window: The window you want to move or re-size.

Output Properties:

  • Rectangle: Results in the bounding rectangle of the specified window in screen coordinates.

Get Window: This activity helps the user to get the specified window that is already opened.

Window Properties:

  • Parent Window: The parent window to start searching form.

Output Properties:

  • Window: Window variable that has found active window.

Maximize: This activity maximizes the active window.

Window Properties:

  • Window: A window variable that holds the window you want to maximize.

Minimize: This activity minimizes the window.

Window Properties:

  • Window: A window variable that holds the window you want to minimize.

Move Window: This activity will change the position and Dimensions of the indicated window.

Element Properties:

  • Element:  This field only supports a UI element variable returned by another activity.

Input Properties:

  • Height: The new height of the window. Positive and negative numbers are supported.
  • Width: The new width of the window. Positive and negative numbers are supported.
  • X-Position: The new X-Position of the window. Positive and negative numbers are supported.
  • Y-Position: The new Y-Position of the window. Positive and negative numbers are supported.

Window Exists: This activity checks whether a particular window exists or not.

Window Properties:

  • Parent Window: The parent window to start searching form.

Output Properties:

  • Exists: It indicates window exists or not.
  • Window: Window variable that stores the window if window exists.