Re: dogtail-devel How to get the dimension of an application

[Zack Cerza <zcerza redhat com>]

Alexander Todorov wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to "remote-control" a VNC session using Dogtail raw input 
> module. I need only to typeText in the VNC window and that's working 
> fine provided that the window has received focus.

Hi Alexander,

Cool! I never thought of using Dogtail that way :)

> My question is: Is there an easy way to get the window dimensions (x,y, 
> w, h) once I have the application object returned from Dogtail.
> I've tried exploring atspi.Application which I believe is the underlying 
> accessible object but couldn't find how to get a gtk.gdk.Window() object 
> from that.

The interface that implements that information is called Component. Most 
GUI widgets do implement the Component interface and therefore can 
provide that information, but the Application interface does not. 
However, each of the toplevel *windows* of the Application instance 
should. In dogtail try the 'position' and 'size' attributes of a those 
Node instances.

Zack

> I am not a GTK expert and any tips are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander.