Re: dogtail-devel Determine if a gui component is selectable

[Zack Cerza <zcerza redhat com>]

Cole Robinson wrote:
> Anand Subramanian wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   
> >   We use the following bit of code, seems to work fine - please do mail back if you face any problems.
> >
> > It has some extra code just to print out the state-names and not just numbers off the node's stateSet.
> >
> > It returns a tuple because we re-use it to print out the message in the unittest framework that we have.
> >
> > Please find below the code, testcode and output.
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Anand
>
> Hi Anand,
>
> I played with this code a bit and the general principle is useful, but
> it doesn't address the case I presented where we want to know if a gui
> component is present, but it is currently not open or visible. The code
> you sent requires a 'node' object for each component to check, but you
> cannot have a node object for an component that isn't created yet, for
> example.
>
> - Cole

Hi Cole,

I'm a little confused. If it doesn't exist, it sure can't be selectable, 
can it?

Zack