Re: dogtail About key-stroke in ?

[Zack Cerza <zcerza redhat com>]

Gautam Ravi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the dogtail to test my application's behaviour . It is really 
> a cool tool. I thank to all the contributors for this.
I'm glad you're finding it useful!

> I have a question to ask too,
>
> I have to include keystrokes in the python script for the keys like,
> Up-arrow Key,Down-arrow Key,Function keys like F1 , F5, etc. Can I do this?

Yes, you can do it very easily. Just make sure the correct widget has 
keyboard focus - Node.grabFocus() can help here in some cases - and then 
use dogtail.rawinput.pressKey(). Here's an example just to show you some 
of the functions:

# textEntry is a Node with a roleName of 'text'
textEntry.grabFocus()
rawinput.typeText('Look, I'm typing!\n')
rawinput.pressKey('Up')
rawinput.pressKey('Backspace')
rawinput.pressKey('F1')
rawinput.keyCombo('<Alt>F4')

Zack