Setting playback options

You can set playback options to lock the keyboard and mouse during script playback, change the speed of low-level actions, specify the time QA Wizard Pro searches for controls before playback times out, and specify the default optical character recognition (OCR) settings.

Keep the following in mind:

To monitor playback in the QA Wizard Pro dashboard or status tool, you must send playback data to the server. See Setting server connection options.

Scripts run remotely use the playback options set on the remote computer. Before setting playback options on a remote computer, make sure QAWRemote is not currently running scripts. Right-click the QAWRemote.exe icon in the Windows taskbar and choose Console. Verify the status is Idle and then choose File > Exit to close QAWRemote. After setting the playback options, close QA Wizard Pro and then restart QAWRemote on the remote computer before running scripts. See Starting QAWRemote.exe.

1. Choose Tools > Options.

The Options dialog box opens.

2. Click the Playback tab.

3. Select Lock keyboard and mouse to lock the keyboard and mouse when scripts run. Select this option if you will be away from the computer while scripts run or if you are running scripts remotely to prevent unexpected actions from affecting playback.

Note: To unlock the keyboard and mouse while a script is running, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to open the Windows Security dialog box. Press Esc to close the dialog box and return to QA Wizard Pro. You can let the script continue running or press the Pause/Break key to stop the script.

4. Select a low-level action Speed option.

Same speed as when recorded plays back low-level actions at the speed they were recorded.

Maximum speed plays back low-level actions as quickly as possible. Select this option to speed up playback if scripts are running as expected.

5. Enter the Control search timeout to indicate how long before playback times out.

If the timeout is reached, playback stops and an error is displayed. The default value is 15,000 milliseconds.

6. Specify the default Optical Character Recognition (OCR) options to use when converting graphical text in applications to text strings.

These options are applied to temporary images created from specified regions of applications before they are processed using OCR to improve the accuracy of the returned text. See Using OCR to Work with Graphical Text.

Convert to grayscale automatically converts images to grayscale. This option is selected by default.

Image scale specifies the number of times to increase the image scale. You can enter a value between 1 and 15. For example, 1 scales to original size (100%), 2 scales two times the original size (200%), and 15 scales 15 times the original size (1500%). The default value is 4.

Contrast specifies the amount of color contrast to apply to images. You can enter a value between 0 and 100. For example, 0 does not change the image contrast and 100 makes the image solid black. The default value is 0.

Language file path specifies the path to the OCR language file to use. The path to the English language file (e.g., %QAWDIR%\OCR\tessdata\eng.traineddata) is selected by default. Click Browse to select a different file.

Note: QA Wizard Pro uses the Tesseract OCR engine. QA Wizard Pro includes the English language file (eng.traineddata). If you need to test other languages, download additional language files from Tesseract. Language files must be stored in a directory named tessdata.

7. Click OK to save the changes.