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April 19, 2024 ยท Developer Tools, VS Code Extension

๐Ÿš€ Java Inspector added to VS Code extension

๐Ÿ‘‰ Our next Product Hour Live session on April 24th will dive deeper into Inspectors so join us there.

The complete Inspector set is now available in the VS Code Extension, as we've added the Java Inspector and Image-based locator support.

The creation of Java locators is quite similar to that of Windows locators. You can hover over elements to pick items and then browse the element tree in the Inspector. Create locators out of rules on the UI or write the locator directly and test. We do not yet have the code generation available in the Inspector, but that is simple enough in the VS Code code editor.

VS Code Java Inspector picking elements in a Java app, building a locator, then inserting it into code and running the robot successfully

๐Ÿ‘‰ Checkout our documentation on the new Inspectors for details

We have also integrated the Image-based locator support in the VS Code extension. As before, we see Image-based automation as a last resort, so we heavily recommend trying out the other types of locators and even hotkey sending before returning to image-based automations.