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Article #36936Re: Driving a User Interface From a File
From: mjb
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 04:28
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 04:28
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In article <7064@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> you write: >Why? For regression testing, but also for "batch" processing >(oh no!), for defining macros, for feeding "commands" into >a user interface by a text selection... > >I.e., the user does something, and a file "magically" devlops which >mimics the user's actions. This file is a script which can then >be read in by that application. A very similar beast was produced by the late, lamented X Test Consortium (no affiliation with the MIT X Consortium). A mechanism known as the Input Synthesis server extension was developed by HP for testing X server implementations, but is generally useful for testing X applications as well. The extension's main calls are XTestMovePointer, XTestPressButton, XTestPressKey, XTestGetInput, and XTestStopInput. A couple of host clients, xrecord and xplayback, create and replay a script of input actions. I'll mail you the spec. All Visual X terminals have this extension, if you're interested in playing with it. Mike Braca Visual Technology mjb@visual.uu.net +1 508 836 4400
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!visual.UUCP!mjb From: mjb@visual.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Driving a User Interface From a File Message-ID: <9002150428.AA06493@bird.visual.uu.net> Date: 15 Feb 90 04:28:43 GMT References: <7064@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: Visual Technology, Westboro MA Lines: 26