session.moveTo(element:) does not move mouse to the element for app caption buttons

[stevenbrix]

I found that doing something like this in an app:

 let closeButton = session.findElement(byName: "Close")
 session.moveTo(element:closeButton!)

will not actually move the mouse to the element

[tristanlabelle]

Here's what the doc has to say. It's a pretty confusing API but I think your call should work:

POST /session/:sessionId/moveto
Move the mouse by an offset of the specificed element. If no element is specified, the move is relative to the current mouse cursor. If an element is provided but no offset, the mouse will be moved to the center of the element. If the element is not visible, it will be scrolled into view.

[jeffdav]

@stevenbrix -- Does findElement find the close button? If you push a branch or send a patch I can debug this.

[jeffdav]

Was this the DPI issue?

[tristanlabelle]

My new tests from #89 use moveTo with an element successfully. One thing to be aware is that by default it moves to the top-left of the element's bounding box, which might not be a clickable pixel. In my test, I had to offset it by a few pixels to be in the clickable area.

Closing this until further info.

[stevenbrix]

this isn't fixed, there must be something special about the caption buttons as this works for normal elements. i updated the title accordingly

[tristanlabelle]

this isn't fixed, there must be something special about the caption buttons as this works for normal elements. i updated the title accordingly

@stevenbrix , in that case it might not be fixable in swift-webdriver. It would be worthwhile filing a bug on WinAppDriver itself: https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver . Can we work around the issue at the application level?

[stevenbrix]

unfortunately not really, we can send WM_CLOSE but that doesn't simulate an end-user interaction

[jeffdav]

What about sending ALT+F4?