Re: dogtail-devel Question on dogtail and kpdf

[Chris Lee <clee c133 org>]

On Jul 31, 2006, at 2:41 PM, David Malcolm wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 09:59 -0400, indhu krishna sivaramakrishnan  
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a graduate student trying to use dogtail as a GUI benchmarking
> > tool.
> Excellent!
>
> Bear in mind when doing timing tests that dogtail automatically adds
> delays in order to avoid race conditions.  There's some discussion of
> this in Len's article here:
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/021jul06/features/dogtail/
> (see "searchBackoffDuration", "debugSleep" and "actionDelay", for
> instance).  This is configurable, so you should be able to  
> eliminate it
> for your purposes.
>
> > I tried out the example python script with gedit and it works fine.
> > But when I try to run it for kpdf, it does not work. Is there a
> > different class for kpdf?
> Unfortunately, I believe Qt does not yet support ATK, and thus will be
> invisible to tools such as Dogtail.  I believe there are plans to fix
> this in Qt v4, but I've no idea right now how far advanced these  
> are, or
> if they're still planned.  If anyone has more information on this,
> please let the list know.  Alternatively, perhaps Qt's accessibility
> infrastructure has advanced; maybe we can rig something up if it has
> Python bindings?

Qt4 has full ATK support, but I haven't tested any Qt4 applications  
with Dogtail at this point. It should work, but KDE3 (and, thus, Qt3)  
applications will not work with Dogtail.