interaction with Java GUI and ILOG GUI

[magodiez]

Hello,

I'm trying to automate some tests from an tool developed in my enterprise. I'm still not able to interact with the GUI in other way than by keyboard (TAB, ALT, etc.) an I would like to interact by doing something like ControlClick or selecting a menu/combo , etc.

The applications have a GUI developed one in Java an the other in the C++ library "IBM ILOG Views".

So my question is:

Is there a way to use the functions with ControlID with this kind of GUI? And how can I get this ControlID?

I've already tried with the text or ID, but still no result. Obviously I'd prefer not to use coordinates.

Is there any way to detect the text in these windows in order to check if the actions result is correct, in case I do it totally by keyboard?

Thanks,