Nagappan, I agree with Ara. Personally, I feel it is always more comfortable to address any menu in the full hierarchy. The 'mnuCloseAll1' tip you give is working. But it requires a bit of logic from user's code to follow LDTP's naming convention on the anonymous objects. But for menu, full hierarchy is already a simple solution to avoid the name collision in sub-menus in UI design. Thanks for the help. Scott <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Ara Pulido <<a href="mailto:ara@ubuntu.com">ara@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello all, I've always found the way LDTP deals with menus a bit weird. I think it is much better if all the functions dealing with menus would use some kind of hierarchy. Or better, if it could be set in the parameters: ldtp.doesmenuitemexist(windows_name, "mnuFile;mnuCloseAll", hierarchy=true) ldtp.doesmenuitemexist(windows_name, "mnuCloseAll", hierarchy=false) One question for LDTPv2, would this inconsistencies be solved? Would be ooldtp be better in LDTPv2? Thanks, Ara.<div class="im"> On 14/10/09 17:00, Nagappan Alagappan wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"> Hi Scott, On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Wang Qi, Scott <<a href="mailto:wangqi.s@gmail.com" target="_blank">wangqi.s@gmail.com</a> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> <mailto:<a href="mailto:wangqi.s@gmail.com" target="_blank">wangqi.s@gmail.com</a>>> wrote: Hi Nagappan, I saw some inconsistency in the parameter when calling these two functions : hasstate () and doesmenuitemexist(). 1) ldtp.doesmenuitemexist(windows_name, 'mnuFile;mnuCloseAll') doesmenuitemexist () requires the full path which is the 'mnuFile;mnuCloseAll' menu. 2) ldtp.hasstate(windows_name, 'mnuCloseAll', ldtp.state.SENSITIVE) hasstate () only requires the last node which is 'mnuCloseAll'. Is this design deliberately as this? hasstate is a general function, which works for all object type. To work with menu, we have to follow the hierarchy. If its a requirement we can implement it on LDTPv2. The second question is that if 2 root menus has a submenu with the same name for example, 'mnuFile;mnuCloseAll' and 'mnuProject;mnuCloseAll'. How ldtp.hasstate() will return the status with input of 'mnuCloseAll'? Will it only return the first found mnu named "mnuCloseAll"? I did a simple experiment. It seems it indeed returns the attribute for the first mnu. So how to get the attribute for the 2nd sub menu item. 'mnuCloseAll1' should return the state of it :) Thanks Nagappan Thanks Scott _______________________________________________ LDTP-dev mailing list </div></div> <a href="mailto:LDTP-dev@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">LDTP-dev@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:LDTP-dev@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">LDTP-dev@lists.freedesktop.org</a>><div class="im"> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/ldtp-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/ldtp-dev</a> -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - <a href="http://ldtp.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">http://ldtp.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://nagappanal.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://nagappanal.blogspot.com</a> _______________________________________________ LDTP-dev mailing list <a href="mailto:LDTP-dev@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">LDTP-dev@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/ldtp-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/ldtp-dev</a> </div></blockquote> </blockquote></div>