Re: [g-a-devel] grabFocus

["A Nagappan" <anagappan novell com>]

Hi,
I have verified this patch with push button, though need to test with
many other object types.

My result:
* Works fine with push button.
* If I try to grab a window, getting AccessibleComponent handle itself
fails.
* If I try to grab a table cell, the window splashes on the bottom task
bar, but the window doesn't appear on front.

This patch is very much required for testing frameworks like LDTP  :) 

Thanks
Nagappan

Nagappan A <anagappan novell com>
Linux Desktop Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org
http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

Novell, Inc.
SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10
Your Linux is ready™
http://www.novell.com/linux


>>> Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM> 02/13/07 11:04 PM >>>
Rodney Dawes wrote:
> I don't think there's any reason to try and avoid doing so. During
> automated testing, of this sort, you need to avoid using the keyboard
> and mouse, as the tests will be entering data into fields in the UI,
> and moving the mouse and typing on the keyboard, can interfere with
> that and cause problems in the testing. Having grabfocus bring the
> window to the front is the proper thing to do, IMO.
>   
For automated testing, you could call grabFocus on the toplevel window 
first, so either answer to the question below (do/don't pop toplevel to 
top when calling grabFocus on an internal widget) would work.

Bill
> -- dobey
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 23:03 -0700, A Nagappan wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Attached a patch to grabFocus on any accessibility component in
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347481
>>
>> ---------snip starts------------
>> Bill's comment on the bug:
>>
>> We should ask the list (g-a-d) whether clients think grabFocus should
>> pop the
>> window to the top, even when called on a subcomponent (as opposed to
>> just a
>> toplevel window).
>> ---------snip ends------------
>>
>> Any comments / objections ?
>>     
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list
> Gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
>