Re: dogtail Dogtail support for TCL / TK applications

[Vitezslav Humpa <vhumpa redhat com>]

Hi Sunil,

I really don't know whether Tcl / Tk has some support for accessibility technologies, simple Google
search didn't find much.

There is a toolkit called Sikuli you could check out. It doesn't have any requirements on the GUI toolkit
as it is based purely on sort of heuristic pattern and OCR recognition. Based on my experience with it,
it can be useful for some GUI testing tasks.

As I have no direct experience with Tcl / Tk, I cannot recommend you anything specific for this toolkit.
However over at http://www.tcl.tk/about/uses.html is stated that Tcl comes with "tcltest" framework,
which allows Tcl to test itself, so perhaps you can use the also for Tk somehow.

I hope you can finally manage to test your app in ways you wanted.
Cheers,
Vita.

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Hi Vita,
Thanks for your valuable inputs.

It would be a great if you have any inputs on the below queries.
1. Is there any option to enable a11y support for tcl without using python module ? Because there is not much control to change that application into otherthan tcl
2. Do you have any suggestions on automation tools for tcl tk applications ?

Thanks,
Sunil


On Thursday, February 2, 2012, Vitezslav Humpa <vhumpa redhat com> wrote:
> 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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