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Have you tried contains?

click | //object[contains(@id,'FLASH_')]

s_hewitt 2009-05-04 20:54:46

I just did, and it didn't work. I got this error: [error] locator not found: //object[contains(@id,'FLASH_')], error = Error: Element //object[contains(@id,'FLASH_')] not found

JLau 2009-05-04 21:16:13

Just saw that you are using embed tags. You might need to replace 'object' with 'embed'. Otherwise, can you add the relevant HTML from the page to your question.

s_hewitt 2009-05-04 21:18:00

IDE able to detect it using embed, but it's not clicking it. In the log it shows - [info] Executing: |click | //embed[contains(@id,'FLASH_')] | | but it's not clicking it.

JLau 2009-05-04 21:56:24

Looked around some more. Doesn't look like you are going to be able to click the Flash object within the Selenium IDE. You need to use Selenium RC and a plugin. http://clearspace.openqa.org/message/59114

s_hewitt 2009-05-04 22:09:41

I actually do use Selenium RC, I was using the IDE to verify if it'd work or not. I'd seen the link you sent before, the problem is I'm actually working on AS2 and so the google code won't be able to do what I want. Thanks.

JLau 2009-05-04 22:12:47

You could try executing some javascript on the page. Based on http://lifescaler.com/2008/04/simulating-mouse-clicks-in-javascript/ as long as you don't have to click a certain part of the SWF, just any part of the SWF, you should be able to get that to work. Otherwise since you are in using Selenium RC, you can send a mouse click from code, but you'd have to open a new question for that.

s_hewitt 2009-05-04 22:33:05

Answer 2

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Clicking on the flash object won't work. The only known way to automate Flash using Selenium is to expose UI functions in the Flash object via JavaScript. Then you can call that JavaScript using the getEval() function in Selenium RC.

Patrick Lightbody 2009-05-06 03:16:37

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We use the Java client for selenium and sometimes have our tests use the Java Robot to move the mouse and click when we cannot interact with the web browser directly. This has downsides (such as the browser must be in the foreground and accuracy can be a bit tricky) but when running tests in a virtual machine these downsides are minimized.

Zugwalt 2010-05-04 19:13:28

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