Re: dogtail How to control "Software Updater" or "pirut" program?

["Charles Tan" <tzq emails bjut edu cn>]

I tried to login as a root and pirut did appear in sniff. But the buttons, menus
could not be sniffed. I tried gedit, all was good.

Is it the related to pyGTK and all the pyGTK based applications could not be
sniffed?

I wanted to use dogtail because of its ability to identify widgets by name or
label, not just the x,y coordinations, which could save me a lot time
on different
screens or hardwares. But if the pyGTK+ programs could not be tested by it,
I might need to fix it or find some alternatives.

Anyway, thank you for your reply!
On Jan 3, 2008 12:22 AM, David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 19:36 +0800, Charles Tan wrote:
> > hi, guys,
> > I'm a python rookie, and I want to automatically test some GUI
> > programs, for example, the gnome Software Updater(or pirut). My idea
> > is very simple, that use a program to control the other programs being
> > tested.
> > And I found dogtail is very good at testing gtk+ based applications.
> > But it could not test pirut, which is written in python, because it
> > couldn't sniff the buttons and menus inside the pirut.
> > I've read some code of the pirut and it used gtk, gtk.glade to
> > generate the windows. I don't know why pirut could not sniff the
> > widgets in the "pirut" program. Could some kindly guys explain the
> > reason? Or tell me an alternative method to automatically test
> > "pirut"?
>
> You say that the widgets aren't visible in sniff; to what extent does
> the app itself appear in sniff: does the app appear, do the windows?
>
> I have a vague memory of problems with privileged apps; "pirut" on
> Fedora IIRC is launched with a wrapper script that asks for root's
> password, and then runs pirut as root, and I think that this can stop
> the app appearing in "sniff".
>
> If it's not appearing in "sniff", you could try launching the executable
> directly, rather than the wrapper, or try running the whole thing logged
> into a desktop session as root (which is not to be recommended in
> general due to security risks).
>
> It's not going to work with dogtail if it doesn't appear in sniff, so
> get this working first.
>
> Hope this helps, though I could be misremembering this.
> Dave
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