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Bug 574111 - unable to select a menu item
unable to select a menu item
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: LDTP
Classification: Other
Component: ldtp
1.5.0
Other All
: Normal blocker
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Assigned To: LDTP maintainers
LDTP Development Mailing List
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-03-04 16:34 UTC by Sandro Millien
Modified: 2009-03-17 19:39 UTC
See Also:
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Description Sandro Millien 2009-03-04 16:34:28 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
In the user interface of anjuta, there is a menuitem 'File->New' . There is also a menu 'File->New'. The submenu 'File->New' has a menuitem 'File->New->2.File' .
The issue is that I am unable to select the menuitem 'File->New->2.File' .
The command ldtp.selectmenuitem('frm*Anjuta*', 'mnuFile;mnuNew;mnu2.File') actually selects 'File->New'.
This isn't the desired behavior.
The script given it 'Steps to reproduce' demonstrates this.

Steps to reproduce:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from ldtp import *


program_name = 'anjuta'
window_title = 'frm*Anjuta*'

appundertest(program_name)
launchapp(program_name)
waittillguiexist(window_title)
selectmenuitem(window_title, 'mnuFile;mnuNew;mnu2.File')

Actual results:
The wrong menuitem 'File->New' is selected, in lieu of the expected menuitem 'File->New->2.File'

Expected results:
Menuitem 'File->New->2.File' to be selected.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
Comment 1 tac 2009-03-17 10:19:39 UTC 
Hi Sandro,
  Lately try your case.
  Then in the convection of LDTP, changing your scripts to
ldtp.selectmenuitem('frm*Anjuta*', 'mnuFile;mnuNew1;mnu2.File')
will do.
  This is a not a bug, though a better LDTP-name-convection could
be considered.
  Suggest close this one : )
Comment 2 tac 2009-03-17 10:20:35 UTC 
Hi Sandro,
  Lately try your case.
  Then in the convection of LDTP, changing your scripts to
ldtp.selectmenuitem('frm*Anjuta*', 'mnuFile;mnuNew1;mnu2.File')
will do.
  This is a not a bug, though a better LDTP-name-convection could
be considered.
  Suggest close this one : )
Comment 3 Sandro Millien 2009-03-17 17:31:09 UTC 
Ok, it works :)
Closing the bug...

Cheers.
Comment 4 Sandro Millien 2009-03-17 19:39:48 UTC 
However...
We are mixing two naming schemes here.
The naming schemes where we use names that the widgets are providing, and the naming scheme where it is LDTP that provides the name for the widget.
mnuNew1 is a name that is dynamically created by LDTP, and LDTP could perfectly call another widget by this name in some other configuration of Anjuta. Anjuta loads plugins dynamically, those plugins are able to alter the user interface.
By using mnuNew1 in 'mnuFile;mnuNew1;mnu2.File' I am introducing undeterminism in the "statement".
So even though 'mnuFile;mnuNew1;mnu2.File' does actually works. It is never the less hiding a "Phase of moon bug".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_software_bug