Re: automation

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Scott Lanning said:
> I'm trying to figure out how to automate
> a browser based on Gtk2::MozEmbed.
> The problem is normally you call Gtk2->main()
> and there things are stuck, but in this case
> I want to be able to script when certain things
> should happen rather than wait for events (I don't
> even care if the window is shown). So I think I have
> to not use `main'. So I'm  experimenting with that.

In the Gtk2 et al test suites, we usually use single-shot idles to handle this
sort of thing.

  Glib::Idle->add (sub {
      $button->clicked;
      Gtk2->main_quit;
      FALSE;
  });
  Gtk2->main;


You can get pretty nutty when you start nesting and chaining these things, so
i recommend creating a wrapper API for it.  In Gtk2::TestHelper there are
run_main(), ok_idle() and is_idle() for this purpose.



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