Re: dogtail Dogtail support for TCL / TK applications

[Vitezslav Humpa <vhumpa redhat com>]

Hi Sunil,

It would seem that you can't browse through your application because TCL / TK might not support Accessibility
(a11y) technologies. To see and manipulate different widgets, dogtail utilizes a11y and will work only with
GUI frameworks that have a support for such. You could see gedit, gcalc etc., because these are written
using GTK, which does support a11y. You can either switch framework (which is something I suppose you would
not like to do) or I could recommend you some other means to 'automate' your custom app.

Thanks for the interest in dogtail :)

Vita
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Vita Humpa
vhumpa redhat com

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to write test scripts to my custom built application. The application is built on TCL / TK.
> I am able to launch my application using "run " function. [ dogtail.utils.run(APP_NAME) ]
> 
> But that application wont get listed in the sniff utility.
> I tested with other standard applications like gedit, gcalc and firefox, which will be shown in sniff (ATSPI browser) window.
> 
> Because of this issue I am not able to get a tree structure to my application [ app_root = dogtail.tree.root.application(test_app) ].
> It gives error shown below.
> 
> 1.       searching for child of {root}: "test_app" application (attempt 19)
>
>
> My system details:
> Centos 5.4 / python 2.4.3 / dogtail 0.6.1
> 
> I greatly appreciate any input to my query.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sunil