That was my idea some time ago - to try RAutomation out to see if it's possible to replace current usages of winclicker and autoit or if there's something missing. Just haven't got the time to do that, but i haven't forgotten that.
Jarmo On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Hugh! > Glad to see you here. Here's my take. We need a consistent abstraction with > how to handle native events - windows, clicking, etc. This is a really good > question. There are native events coming out in Webdriver which are exposed > through watir-webdriver as they come out, there's still a lot of missing > components. > For the current version of Watir we could use Rautomation, it gives us some > leeway in translating the calls. I'm talking about it on IRC now. > Charley Baker > Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com > > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Hugh McGowan <colinsda...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> The problem I saw was that Ruby 1.8.7 throws a SEGV with the existing >> winclicker - 1.8.6 with the same bundle of gems worked fine. I did a quick >> test using FFI and it seemed to correct the problem. >> >> I was thinking of fixing this issue by implementing the existing >> functionality of WinClicker in FFI. These both look like fine tools, but are >> a little more ambitious than what I'm trying to solve :). >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Thanks! >> Hugh >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Jarmo <jarm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, i created RAutomation (https://github.com/jarmo/rautomation) >>> which uses also FFI, why not give it a try? Let me know if anything is >>> missing (FFI adapter is the most advanced one currently due to outside >>> contributions). >>> >>> Jarmo >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > I'd encourage the use of the WinWindow library (being quite biased, >>> > admittedly, having written it). It was written to replace winclicker, >>> > and do >>> > things winclicker couldn't, and sounds very much in line with the work >>> > you're describing. >>> > http://winwindow.vapir.org/ >>> > Also jarmo has done some other work along related lines with the idea >>> > of >>> > replacing AutoIt, I believe. >>> > >>> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 18:33, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> I'm writing about some work that Hugh McGowan has been working on this >>> >> week. We are trying to move Convio's testing framework from Ruby 1.8.6 >>> >> to >>> >> Ruby 1.8.7 because 1.8.6 is getting harder and harder to support. >>> >> >>> >> He's had to do two things for this. >>> >> >>> >> 1. Repatch and recompile win32ole -- this is needed for the showModal >>> >> dialog support. >>> >> 2. Rewrite the winclicker code. His rewrite uses FFI and I've been >>> >> encouraging him to go wild and create a new class to do this with a >>> >> more >>> >> intuitive interface. >>> >> >>> >> I'm hoping he will share more about this work that he is doing to get >>> >> comments on it. >>> >> >>> >> Bret >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Bret Pettichord >>> >> Director, Watir Project, www.watir.com >>> >> >>> >> Blog, www.testingwithvision.com >>> >> Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Wtr-development mailing list >>> >> Wtr-development@rubyforge.org >>> >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wtr-development mailing list >>> > Wtr-development@rubyforge.org >>> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wtr-development mailing list >>> Wtr-development@rubyforge.org >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wtr-development mailing list >> Wtr-development@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > Wtr-development@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list Wtr-development@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
