Orca Fw: VMWare

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

OOPS, this was meant to goto the list.

----- Original Message ----- 
To: <bart bunting net au>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:28 PM
Subject: VMWare


> Bart wrote:
> > I'm now using vmware6 beta with orca and it speaks reasonably well,
> > very well if compared with version 5.
> So, does this mean your running a virtual machine on Windows and running
> linux and orca inside it? This would be an amazingly cool way to explore
> Orca. Right now I have a dual boot windows/linux machine, which is kind of
a
> pain to manage.
> Its 2.4 athalon processor with 512 megs of memory. Is this powerful enough
> to run VMWare reasonably well, or would it be painfully slow?
>
> I'd also like to find a tutorial on Orca scripting, even very basic just
to
> get an idea of the object model exposed by apps and how that looks in
> Python. I've never programmed in Python either, but have programmed a bit
in
> Java, and of course Javascript and php.
> -- Rich
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <bart bunting net au>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:27 PM
> Subject: Orca scripting question - re vmware
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been playing around with orca for several months, closely
> > following the development and I'm very impressed!
> >
> > I'm now using vmware6 beta with orca and it speaks reasonably well,
> > very well if compared with version 5.
> >
> > There is a tree view that doesn't seem to speak at all and I thought I
> > might have a poke around and see if I could understand why not and
> > what was required to get it to talk.
> >
> > The first thing I did was to do a orca + f7 to dump the relations when
> > I was in the tree table.  This was where I started to get a bit lost.
> >
> > > From the output below I can see that the thing that has focus is a
> > table cell and it has a relation of NODE_CHILD_OF.
> >
> > I'm guessing I need to get at the contents of this cell or it's label
> > or some such, but don't really know where to go from here.
> >
> > Unfortunantly I know very little python ATM but am willing to learn.
> >
> > Can I get some pointers to some similar code or some hints on how to
> > poke around to see what an application exposes?
> >
> > The output is pasted below.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Bart
> >
> >
> >
> > GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> > +-name='vmware' role='application' state='' relations=''
> >   +-name='Home - VMware Workstation (e.x.p build-36983)' role='frame'
> state='ACTIVE ENABLED RESIZABLE SENSITIVE SHOWING VISIBLE' relations=''
> >     +-name=None role='filler' state='ENABLED SENSITIVE SHOWING VISIBLE'
> relations=''
> >       +-name=None role='filler' state='ENABLED SENSITIVE SHOWING
VERTICAL
> VISIBLE' relations=''
> >         +-name=None role='split pane' state='ENABLED FOCUSABLE
HORIZONTAL
> SENSITIVE SHOWING VISIBLE' relations=''
> >           +-name=None role='filler' state='ENABLED HORIZONTAL SENSITIVE
> SHOWING VISIBLE' relations=''
> >             +-name=None role='panel' state='ENABLED SENSITIVE SHOWING
> VISIBLE' relations=''
> >               +-name=None role='scroll pane' state='ENABLED FOCUSABLE
> SENSITIVE SHOWING VISIBLE' relations='LABELLED_BY'
> >                 +-name=None role='tree table' state='ENABLED FOCUSABLE
> FOCUSED SENSITIVE SHOWING VISIBLE MANAGES_DESCENDANTS' relations=''
> >                   +-name=None role='table cell' state='ACTIVE ENABLED
> FOCUSABLE FOCUSED SELECTABLE SELECTED SENSITIVE SHOWING TRANSIENT VISIBLE'
> relations='NODE_CHILD_OF'
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