From: Ian S. <ian...@st...> - 2005-02-18 14:44:50
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Amitha Perera wrote: > On Thu 17 Feb 2005, Ian Scott wrote: > >>This is one of the problems of not having any decent regression tests >>for vgui. Memory leaks in the other libraries are picked up (if not >>always fixed) by the dashboard. It would be really very useful if >>someone could write an automatic test for vgui. > > > I too keep thinking this would be great, but then I keep running into > the issue about how to place decent, automated regression tests for > UI code? > > One issue is that it may not be possible to use vgui without access > to a display. > > Does anyone have ideas about this? > > Amitha. > It is possible to insert events directly into Qt's event loop - I'll ask a colleague here for some details. There must be a way to spawn a headless X-server. However, I don't imagine that any of this would be trivial to get working. Is anyone willing to put the effort into doing it? Ian. |
From: Amitha P. <pe...@cs...> - 2005-02-18 15:07:40
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On Fri 18 Feb 2005, Ian Scott wrote: > It is possible to insert events directly into Qt's event loop - I'll ask > a colleague here for some details. I'm sure that it true for the other toolkits too. > There must be a way to spawn a > headless X-server. However, I don't imagine that any of this would be > trivial to get working. Is anyone willing to put the effort into > doing it? I am, provided a decent approach exists. Amitha. |