[LDTP-Dev] Accessing Java Applet within Firefox

[Nagappan A]

Hello Bradford,

Initially you can try with external tools like at-poke / accerciser, If the
respective window doesn't appear in either of them, then it can't be
operated using LDTP !

Thanks
Nagappan

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Bradford Smith <
bradford.carl.smith at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
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