[LDTP-Dev] Accessing Java Applet within Firefox

[Bradford Smith]

Thanks for the advice, Nagappan.

Unfortunately, Selenium can't handle Java applets.  I had hoped that since
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/ says LDTP works with "any Java application
(should have a UI based on swing)", that I could use it with the swing-based
applet I need to test.

Since the applet does create some windows that appear outside of the
browser, I tried creating one and passing its title to getobjectlist().
Unfortunately, I got a 'window doesn't exist' error.  If LDTP can "see"
windows created by regular swing-based Java applications, why can't it see
these?  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Bradford

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Nagappan A <nagappan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Smith,
>
> Guess you are using Firefox 3.0 !?! Not sure, how well accessibility
> support is available for applets inside rendering region. I suggest to try
> with selenium for the rendering region and anything related to Window
> management, you can use LDTP. Selenium doesn't support them.
>
> getapplist function just returns the list of application name as per
> accessibility info. getwindowlist, should return all the available windows,
> but the existing implementation just returns what ever available in internal
> hashtable. Will consider doing the first (soon).
>
> Thanks
> Nagappan
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Bradford Smith <
> bradford.carl.smith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, guys.
>>
>> I need to automate testing for a Java applet accessed through Firefox.
>> Can anyone tell me how to find out the window name to use to access the
>> applet?  When I do getobjectinfo() on the name of the Firefox window, I
>> don't seem to be getting any of the applet components in the list.
>>
>> Also, can anyone tell me what getapplist() is good for? Although the
>> documentation says it returns window titles, the returned strings don't seem
>> to work with getobjectlist().  Is there some way to use a string returned by
>> getapplist() to get a list of the actual titles of windows belonging to that
>> application?
>>
>> Is there some way to get a list of all window titles?  I would expect
>> getwindowlist() to do this, but it just seems to list windows whose
>> information has been cached in ldtp due to previous accesses to it with
>> getobjectlist() or other routines.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bradford C. Smith
>>
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