Hello Wallace,
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Wallace Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I started out trying dogtail, which seemed extremely slow. I'm now
> trying to tackle using ldtp for my testing.
Nice to know that :)
>
> What I haven't figured out yet is how to get a dump of the widget
> hierarchy. I see how I can use the editor tool to get the application
> to reveal the names of it's menu buttons and dialogs. Now I want to
> discover the name of the table in the file selection tool, but since
> it's not something I directly interact with in the app, I can't use the
> editor to discover it's name.
You can use getobjectlist ('<Window name>')
More info available here
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/getobjectlist.html
All window related functions available here
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/window.html
In dogtail they had some code that'd walk the tree by querying for each
> 'node's children. What do I do in ldtp?
We have more than 150 ready made API's and most of them are documented here
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html
Lastly, how can I help? I've been developing in C since '82, in C++
> since '87 and in Python since 2004. I've developed python bindings and
> have a very good grasp of their 'ways'.
>
That will be awesome. We are moving the framework from C to python. We need
lots of help in this area. Also, if you could populate the widget hierarchy
info inside LDTP Editor in LDTP format will be nice :)
Thanks
Nagappan
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