[LDTP-Dev] Inconsistency in APIs to use mnu object name

[Wang Qi, Scott]

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

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Ara Pulido <ara at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> On 14/10/09 17:00, Nagappan Alagappan wrote:
>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Wang Qi, Scott <wangqi.s at gmail.com
>> <mailto:wangqi.s at gmail.com>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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