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Bug 321656 - Improve searching for nodes in sniff: visual picker tool
Improve searching for nodes in sniff: visual picker tool
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: dogtail
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Sniff
CVS HEAD
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Dogtail Maintainers
Dogtail Maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-16 21:29 UTC by Dave Malcolm
Modified: 2011-02-07 06:02 UTC
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Description Dave Malcolm 2005-11-16 21:29:36 UTC 
Currently sniff requires you to manually drill down to find your accessible nodes.

It would be great to be able to automate this somehow.  Various approaches to
this, all of which would be nice; I'm filing these as separate bugs:

Visual picker tool.  Implement a "Choose a UI node" menu/toolbar item which when
clicked changes the mousepointer to a crosshairs.  You would then click on
something on the desktop.  Sniff would then update its selection to be the
deepest possible node for that UI element (and expands the treeview where
necessary and scrolls to put the selection in view if it isn't)
Comment 1 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2011-02-07 06:02:29 UTC 
dogtail development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few
years now.
Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing bugs as WONTFIX.
Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development.