Re: [orca-list] Task for budding Orca script writer: Update/refresh the ubiquity installer orca script.

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Heh.

BTW Luke, my guess is that the script you attached hasn't worked in
years. One of the things about the refactor is that I created a
utilities class for scripts. Here's the history:

* A long, long, long time ago back when I was first an Orca contributor
(So 2006 maybe?), we had a util.py. Scripts needed to override the
methods therein, so rather than create a utilities class for scripts
which would permit that, other members of the team decided that all the
methods would go into default.py.

* More and more and more utilities kept getting added and scripts kept
getting more and more and more bloated.

So the new world order is really the way-old world order with some
improvements and tweaks based on what we learned.

This line from your script:

    util.getDisplayedText(obj.child(n)):

Didn't get outdated/broken as the result of the recent refactor; it got
outdated/broken by the one three or four years ago.

FWIW.

--joanie

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 11:26 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> Hi all
> Since scripts for apps have had a refactor recently, there is one more
> script that probably needs attention. This script may have worked with
> orca and ubiquity for Ubuntu in the past, but with the script refactor
> performed recently, it most certainly won't work now.
>
> Unfortunately I currently don't have the time to update this ubiquity
> script for the new world order, and don't have the time to learn the
> new way of doing things with the Orca script. SO I'd like to let
> someone from the community who is interested in further improving
> their Orca scripting skills, attempt to take a shot at this. Finally,
> I think it would be great to get this into orca proper, so I don't
> have as much work carrying it from Ubuntu release to release.
>
> I have attached the script, so anyone who would like to update it,
> please feel free to do so.
>
> Luke
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