[LDTP-Dev] how do I configure key code map for generatekeyevent?

[Nagappan Alagappan]

Hi Mike,

I don't have much idea on DBus, probably Mike Gorse (CC) in this email
might. He is the author of at-spi2.

Thanks
Nagappan


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Mike Pelican <mpelican at sift.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Nagappan.
>
> Possibly we're trying something you didn't intend or haven't tried.  We're
> running Xtightvnc on a test server and using JollyFastVNC to watch on our
> Macs.  Usually I run ldtp interactively from a separate ssh session on the
> test server, but we've tried running from scripts and from xterms running
> inside the VNC/Gnome desktop.
>
> Can you recommend a better way to run tests remotely on a headless system?
>
> Here are a couple of our problems:
>
> 1) The previously mentioned key mapping problems:
>
> >>> generatekeyevent('abcdefghjijklmnopqrtuvwyz')
> generatekeyevent('abcdefghjijklmnopqrtuvwyz')
> 1
> >>> asqc9defg;ghiut'`7-=]r8[o
>
> To workaround, I can (did) hack the translations in keypress_actions.py or
> could modify the code that reads the xmodmap output.
>
> 2) There's something wrong with our dbus setup.  When we start an
> application within ldtp, then send a key event, the app crashes:
>
> >>> launchapp('firefox')
> launchapp('firefox', [], 0, 1, 'C')
> 9155
> >>> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "earth:12".
> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> process 9155: arguments to dbus_server_get_data() were incorrect,
> assertion "server != NULL" failed in file ../../dbus/dbus-server.c line
> 1178\
> .
> This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
> process 9155: arguments to dbus_server_set_data() were incorrect,
> assertion "server != NULL" failed in file ../../dbus/dbus-server.c line
> 1142\
> .
> This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
>
> ** (iceweasel:9155): ERROR **: Not enough memory to set up DBusServer for
> use with GLib
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Nagappan Alagappan <nagappan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Even, I could not see the message in moderator's page. Not sure, what
> happened.
>
>
> LDTP keycode was done based on LTFX project. On Ubuntu 13.04, its how the
> result is:
>
> nagappan at nalagappan:~$ python
> Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 19 2013, 18:28:01)
> [GCC 4.7.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from ldtp import *
> >>> generatekeyevent('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')
> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1 # 1 at end is output from generatekeyevent API
> >>> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
>
> Thanks
> Nagappan
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Mike Pelican <mpelican at sift.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nagappan -
>>
>> I tried to send the following message to ldtp-dev, but the message didn't
>> appear in the archive and I didn't get a bounce.  Was it quietly rejected?
>>
>> I've been digging into the generatekeyevent issue.  It seems like some
>> key code values are hardcoded and others are read from xmodmap output, but
>> the result is not right for our configuration.  Based on my limited
>> knowledge, it seems the Right Thing to use xmodmap to arrange all the key
>> mappings.  Is there a better way?  Should we be doing something differently
>> to make the current code work?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *From: *Mike Pelican <mpelican at sift.net>
>> *Subject: **how do I configure key code map for generatekeyevent?*
>> *Date: *September 12, 2013 11:59:33 AM CDT
>> *To: *ldtp-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
>> *Cc: *Eric Engstrom <engstrom at sift.net>
>>
>> Hi -
>>
>> I'm trying to use LDTP to script a web browser.  I'd like to use
>> generatekeyevent to type things into browser text boxes and web forms, but
>> I don't understand the mapping between the string I pass to
>> generatekeyevent and the resulting key events in my window.  Eg:
>>
>> generatekeyevent("abcdefghijkmlnopqrstuwxyz")
>>
>> produces
>>
>> asqc9def;ghuit'`7-b=]8p[o
>>
>> in an xterm window.
>>
>> I see that there's a remapping done in get_keyval_id using _get_key_value
>> which uses a hardcoded _char_key map.
>>
>> Do I need to change my X or Gnome configuration to match this _char_key
>> map?  (How?)  Or is there a function I should use to transform my string
>> before I pass it to generatekeyevent?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>
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