[BangPypers] Using dogtail to test/automate gtk apps

[Nagappan Alagappan]

Hello Jayanth,

If you are using latest distribution, you can see all the accessible
information through Accerciser application.

Thanks
Nagappan

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar <srijayanth at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> For some vague reason the click() function isn't defined on certain types
> of Node objects, I have no clue why, I haven't looked at the code in detail,
> but I took the Node.click() method, rewrote it as a standalone function and
> passed the eventbox into it and it works. So I think this might actually be
> a bug at some level, or a really strange feature.
>
> Nagappan, thanks for LDTP. I'll take a look at that one as well.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jayanth
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Nagappan Alagappan <nagappan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello Jayanth,
>>
>> Did you get a chance to try the same with LDTP [1] ? Its being used by
>> GNOME automation project [2], Ubuntu, VMware, Palm Source.
>>
>> [1] - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org
>> [2] - http://mago.ubuntu.com
>>
>> Thanks
>> Nagappan
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar <
>> srijayanth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to use dogtail to make a demonstration about automating tests
>>> for certain gtk applications we develop. I managed to get a fair bit of it
>>> working but I am having a hard time getting dogtail to send events to
>>> certain types of widgets, primarily the EventBox widget.
>>>
>>> I've googled and not found anything significant. Has anyone worked on
>>> this? I am pasting some code.
>>>
>>> # This program draws a simple window with an event box in it. The
>>> # eventbox is attached to the on_evbox_clicked() function and prints
>>> # a simple message upon being clicked.
>>>
>>> import pygtk
>>> pygtk.require('2.0')
>>> import atk
>>> import gtk
>>>
>>> def on_evbox_clicked(evbox,event):
>>>         print "Simple click event"
>>>
>>> evbox = gtk.EventBox()
>>> evbox.connect("button-release-event",on_evbox_clicked)
>>> evbox_acc = evbox.get_accessible()
>>> evbox_acc.set_name("test event box")
>>> window = gtk.Window()
>>> window.add(evbox)
>>> window.connect("delete-event",gtk.main_quit)
>>> window_acc = window.get_accessible()
>>> window_acc.set_name("test window")
>>> window_acc.set_role(atk.ROLE_WINDOW)
>>> window.show_all()
>>> gtk.main()
>>>
>>> # end of eventbox.py
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> from dogtail.utils import run
>>> from dogtail import tree
>>> from os import environ,path,remove
>>>
>>> app=tree.root.application('eventbox.py')
>>> evbox=app.child("test event box")
>>> print evbox.actions
>>>
>>> # actions are showing up as an empty dict. :(
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------
>>>
>>> So for some vague reason the eventbox has no actions associated with it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a clue why this is so?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Jayanth
>>>
>>>
>>>
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