Re: dogtail Test for widget visibility

[Zack Cerza <zcerza redhat com>]

Cole Robinson wrote:
> Cole Robinson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was wondering if there is a mechanism in dogtail to test for widget
> > visibility: as in, is 'widgetname' visible/focusable? 'focus' doesn't
> > seem to facilitate this as it doesn't return an error code or bool or
> > whatnot, and I can't seem to find any other clean way to do it.
>
> Since I still haven't found any non-hack way to get this info from
> dogtail, I'm curious if anyone else thinks this would be a useful
> addition to the package. It seems to me to be a test case one would want
> to have at their disposal for gui testing, and I would be willing to
> work on a patch if people thought it was valuable.
>
> - Cole


Three that I can think of that *may* help are: node.showing, 
node.focusable, and node.sensitive - if none of those by itself helps, 
maybe some combination of them will?

Zack