Objects supported by UFT can be divided in to 3 categories. Technology Objects, Utility Objects and Supplemental Objects.

Technology Objects

These objects represent the test objects of various technologies like Web, Window, Java and Visual Basic. For example WebEdit, WebList and WebButton belong to Web technology. Test objects WinEdit, WinButton and WinList belong to windows technology.

Utility Objects

These objects are used commonly in all technologies. For Example Data Table is an object which is used to store the data required by test script. This object is used in all the technologies since Test Script are developed for web, windows or any other technology.

Supplemental Objects

These are the additional objects which are part of UFT but do not belong to any specific environment.

Web Objects

A web Object represents the object displayed on the webpage like links, image, edit boxes and buttons like shown below.

The following table gives you the brief description of the web objects

Object	Object Description
Browser	A Web Browser
Image	An image with URL link or without URL link
Frame	An HTML frame
Link	A hypertext link
Page	An HTML page
WebArea	A section of an image
WebButton	An HTML button
WebCheckBox	An HTML check box
WebEdit	An Edit box
WebElement	A general Web Objects that can represent any web objects
WebFile	An Edit box with browse button for select a file from file dialog box
WebList	A Drop-Down box or multiple selection list
WebRadioGroup	A set of radio buttons belonging to the same group
WebTable	A table containing rows and columns
WebXML	An XML document contained in a web page

Windows Objects

windows objects are the objects displayed on the desktop based application developed using standard windows technology.

The following table gives you the brief description of the window objects

Object	Object Description
Desktop	An object that enables access items on your desktop
Dialog	A windows dialog box
Static	A static text object
SystemUtil	An object used to control applications and process during run session
WinButton	A windows button
WinCalender	A windows calendar
WinCheckBox	A windows check box
WinComboBox	A windows combo box
Window	A standard window object
WinEdit	A windows edit box
WinEditor	A windows multi-line editor
WinList	A windows list-view control
WinListView	A windows list-view control
WinMenu	A windows menu
WinObject	A standard object
WinRadioButton	A windows radio button
WinScrollBar	A windows scroll bar
WinSpin	A windows spin box
WinStatusBar	A windows status bar
WinTab	A windows tab stip in a dialog box
WinToolbar	A windows toolbar box
WinTreeview	A windows tree-view control

Some Common Methods used in Web and Windows

Object	Object Description
CaptureBimap	Saves a screen capture of the object as a .png or .bmp image using thespecified file name
Check	Checks whether the actual value of an item matches the expacted value
CheckProperty	Checks whether the actual value of the specified object property matches the specified expected value within the   specified timeout
ChildObjects	Returns the collections of child objects contained within the object.
GetROProperty	Returns the current value of the test object property   from the object in the application
GetTOProperty	Returns the current value of the specified property   from the test object description
GetTOProperties	Returns the collections of properties and values used to identify the object
Output	Retrieves the current value of an item and stores it in a specified location
RefreshObject	Instructs UFT to re-identify the object in the application the next time a step refers to this object
SetTOProperty	Sets the value of the specified property in the test object description
ToString	Returns a String that represents the test object
WaitProperty	Waits until the specified object property achieves the specified value or exceeds the specified timeout before continuing to the next step