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Multiple Recordings

Purpose

Every time you record, the script recorder updates your test script.  Be cautious about what changes you make to the test script; some changes could be lost if the recorder is re-run (see Usage).

Usage

The test script path can be found in the title of Rapise window. Unless you specify otherwise, the test script is named Main.js.

Note that the Script Recorder only has knowledge of four functions and two data structures:

  1. function Test()
  2. function TestInit()
  3. function TestFinish()
  4. function TestPrepare()
  5. array g_load_libraries
  6. map saved_script_objects

You can make changes to the body of any of the above functions, and you can alter the initialization of g_load_libraries and saved_script_objects.  All other changes are unsafe.

During Recording, the Script Recorder:

  1. Appends newly recorded actions to the Test() function
  2. Appends newly encountered objects to the saved_script_objects array
  3. Updates g_load_libraries to reflect the library selections you made in the Select an Application to Record... Dialog
  4. Ignores (and leaves intact) the definitions of TestInit(), TestFinish(),  and TestPrepare()

For example, suppose that you have the following code inside your script file:

//External comment  // UNSAFE: will be removed by recorder

/*Another comment*/ // UNSAFE

var external_var;   // UNSAFE

function Test()
{
  //comment --SAFE
  var external_var; //SAFE: defines a local variable for function “Test”
  global_var=value; //SAFE: updates (or defines) a global variable

  //SAFE everything inside this function will be kept intact after recording

}

The parts of code marked UNSAFE will be deleted by the script recorder.

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