[LDTP-Dev] Accessing Java Applet within Firefox

[Bradford Smith]

Hi, Nagappan et al.

Thanks for pointing me toward at-poke and accerciser.  I have found those
tools useful.

However, I have been unable to get these tools to "see" SWING-based Java
applications.  I got the code for some basic Java SWING applications (a
"hello world" and a calculator) from a SWING tutorial website and ran them
as normal Java applications.  They run fine, but at-poke and accerciser
cannot "see" their interfaces at all.  Is it necessary to modify their code
to specifically support accessibility?

Thanks,

Bradford

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Nagappan A <nagappan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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