Rational Robot recognizes taskbar as generic and in coordinates only

Rational Robot recognizes the taskbar item as a generic object through coordinates only. As a consequence the playback restores any window that happens to be in the same coordinates.

You can observe the recognition issue in Windows 7, but not in Windows XP.

In Windows XP, Rational Robot records the following script.

Sub Main       Dim Result As Integer        Window SetContext, "Class=Shell_TrayWnd", ""        Toolbar Click, "Text=Running Applications;\; _                              ItemText=MyReport.pdf _                              Adobe Reader", "Coords=41,19" End Sub

Under Windows 7, the recording results in the following script.

Sub Main    Dim Result As Integer     Window SetContext, "Class=Shell_TrayWnd", ""     GenericObject Click, "Class=MSTaskListWClass;ClassIndex=1", _                          "Coords=82,31"   End Sub

The cause is unknown.

WORKAROUND

1. Make the following change in your script manually.
   
   Window OpenIcon, "Caption=<Title of the applicaion>", ""
   
   
   
2. Add MSTaskListWClass to the object class list as follows.
   
   
   

1. Click Tools > General Options.... .
   
   
2. Click the Mapping tab.
   
   
3. Select Object Type as ListView.
   
   
4. Click the Add button and enter class name MSTaskListWClass. Then click OK.
   
   

Now for the ListView Object Type , Robot displays MSTaskListWClass in the list of object classes.