Re: dogtail Dogtail support for TCL / TK applications

[Vitezslav Humpa <vhumpa redhat com>]

Been googling a bit and it looks like that if you are making your application
in python using TkInter, you could use this to make Tk a11y aware:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Tka11y

Vita

----- Original Message -----
> 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
> --
> 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
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