Re: [abbot-users] Pressing a button that is currently offscreen

[Timothy W. <tw...@oc...>]

you can manually invoke the button's "doClick" method using a Call =20
step, althought technically you should do it on the EDT rather than =20
from the test thread.
otherwise, the behavior of ComponentTester is exactly as advertised; =20
if there is no way the user could click the button, the action will =20
fail.

On Dec 24, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Laird Nelson wrote:

> Hello; brand new Abbot user here.  I have tried to do my homework and
> research this question elsewhere, but I haven't found anything.
> Simple pointers to the Right Place are happily accepted.
>
> I have an Outlook-like application (tree down the left, couple of
> panes on the right).  I am trying to create a script in Costello with
> a minimum number of absolute actions (e.g. resize this frame to
> exactly this dimension, click on point x,y, etc.).  My script selects
> a node in the tree, waits for the corresponding panes to become
> visible, and then attempts to click a button I have also waited for.
>
> The button itself is not on the screen at this point, so the test
> fails.  That is, the window is not big enough that the button shows
> itself.  Costello says, understandably, that it cannot scroll to this
> button (especially since we aren't even in a scroll pane).
>
> I can get the test to work if I resize the frame, obviously, and that
> is indeed how a user must work it, but is there any kind of shorthand
> I can use within Costello to say something like, yes, yes, I know the
> button isn't showing at the moment, but could you kindly click on it
> anyway, since it is visible and enabled?
>
> Thanks,
> Laird
>
>
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Timothy Wall
Oculus Technologies Corporation