On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 19:00:40 +0200, Gábor Szabó wrote:
On 8/1/05, muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote: The same question would apply to testing on X11 as well. Maybe not for the customers but at least for me :-)
Well, I have managed to find two tools on Sourceforge: X11::GUITest and ltxf. They both say they are beta and I expect neither of them is capable of finding which window is what, since that's sealed in the application and the X server simply has no chance to know... ... except of course if Gtk itself exposed it. I don't think it does, but it might not be hard to add a debugging more to Gtk in which it would attach a special property stating the type and address object of the object to which the window belongs. You would have to make the application tell you what objects it is creating. Which leads me to another suggestion -- in debugging mode, connect a handler to realize signal (I hope it's the one creating the window) of the widgets you need to control, that would print out "forreign id" of the Gdk windows. Then look up the windows by ids in X11::GUITest or ltxf. At first I thought there is no way to get that native id, but then I recalled all drawables have it. There are actually three(!) methods that get it: XID, XWINDOW and get_xid. I assume they match to GDK_DRAWABLE_XID, GDK_WINDOW_XWINDOW and gdk_drawable_get_xid respectively, which I further assume to be the same thing anyway.
The take-home message is that win32 testing tools designed to scrape information from apps that use the Win32 API and controls probably will not work very usefully with gtk+ or QT, as those toolkits draw everything themselves.Actually I would like to have a Perl module (similar to Win32::GuiTest) that could somehow talk to GTK+ or GDK or whoevere has the information and I could just call PushButton($button_id)
Hm, that would require the implementing the introspective interface I talked about above -- having Gtk attach type, name, pointer and such things to a widget's window as special property, when invoked in debugging mode. I am not going to implement it though.
I'll check the gtk-devel-list though right now it is more like general interest than actual need. It will become a need next week :-)
I fear it's a bit more work than a week to do it properly. You can go
with logging the X ids from the application for now.
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