Automation of Close, Maximize, Minimize Button in Fluent(Codeplex) Ribbon - WPF Application

Question

I am trying to Automate the fluent Ribbon Controls (www.fluent.codeplex.com). I am successful in automating most of the controls. But there is an issue like Close, Maximize and Minimize Buttons are not recognized or identified by UI Automation Tool, for example, Coded UI Test using Visual Studio. The Spy tool doesn't identify close, maximize, minimize, etc button. I am not able to close the application (which uses fluent Ribbon) through Automation.

I was looking at the following section of code in RibbonWindow.xaml

<StackPanel x:Name="PART_ButtonsPanel" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,8,8,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Orientation="Horizontal">
          <Button x:Name="minimizeButton" Style="{DynamicResource CaptionButtonStyle}" Width="35" Height="19" BorderThickness="1,0,0,1" Command="{x:Static Fluent:RibbonWindow.MinimizeCommand}">
            <Image Width="Auto" Height="Auto" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Stretch="None" Source="{DynamicResource ImageCaptionButtonMinimize}" SnapsToDevicePixels="True" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="NearestNeighbor"/>
          </Button>
          <Button x:Name="maximizeButton" Margin="-1,0,0,0" Style="{DynamicResource CaptionButtonStyle}" Width="35" Height="19" BorderThickness="0,0,0,1" Command="{x:Static Fluent:RibbonWindow.MaximizeCommand}">
            <Image Width="Auto" Height="Auto" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Stretch="None" Source="{DynamicResource ImageCaptionButtonMaximize}" SnapsToDevicePixels="True" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="NearestNeighbor"/>
          </Button>
          <Button x:Name="normalizeButton" Margin="-1,0,0,0" Style="{DynamicResource CaptionButtonStyle}" Width="35" Height="19" BorderThickness="0,0,0,1" Command="{x:Static Fluent:RibbonWindow.NormalizeCommand}">
            <Image Width="Auto" Height="Auto" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Stretch="None" Source="{DynamicResource ImageCaptionButtonNormalize}" SnapsToDevicePixels="True" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="NearestNeighbor"/>
          </Button>
          <Button x:Name="closeButton" Margin="-1,0,0,0" Style="{DynamicResource CaptionButtonStyle}" Width="35" Height="19" BorderThickness="0,0,1,1" Background="Red" Command="{x:Static Fluent:RibbonWindow.CloseCommand}">
            <Image Width="Auto" Height="Auto" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Stretch="None" Source="{DynamicResource ImageCaptionButtonClose}" SnapsToDevicePixels="True" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="NearestNeighbor"/>
          </Button>
        </StackPanel>

I tried lots of stuff (like putting Automation Id) but none worked. Am I looking at wrong portion of code?

Can somebody help in putting Automation UI or Name in the Close Button or some changes through why I can solve the problem? The only requirement is Close, Maximize, Minimize button of the application should be identified by UI Automation tool.

Regards

Answer 1

This won't help you identify the buttons, but you could try sending the standard keyboard shortcuts to the window to actually perform the actions:

//close the window
Keyboard.SendKeys(myWindow, "{F4}", ModifierKeys.Alt);

Answer 2

You can try Automation Spy for a second check. If UI Automation doesn't give you anything you can try sending (see SendMessage) Win32 messages like WM_CLOSE to the control window and you can use ShowWindow function with parameter SW_MAXIMIZE, SW_MINIMIZE.