How do you access aqObject methods in TestComplete through COM?

Question

Specifically I am trying to do the equivalent of

aqObject.IsSupported(objText, "SomeProperty")

through the TestComplete COM interface.

How do you do this?

Note:

I am connecting to TestComplete through WIN32OLE by connecting to "TestComplete.TestCompleteApplication.8".

It is probably worth point out that I have attempted to ask the integration to get the aqObject by name and got NULL back.

sys = tc.integration.GetObjectByName("Sys") sys.Exists => true sys.Name => "Sys"

aqObject = tc.integration.GetObjectByName("aqObject") => nil

Answer 1

Is there a running test in TestComplete at the moment? This article says it's a prerequisite for GetObjectByName:

You can obtain the object only if TestComplete is running a test. If there is no tests running in TestComplete, GetObjectByName will return an empty Variant value.

Answer 2

If you are using the Connected Applications feature of TestComplete, you can easily access the aqObject object along with its members via the Connect class.