I am developing a plugin for the "PL/SQL Developer" IDE (from Allround Automations) in Lazarus 1.2.4/FreePascal 2.6.4. The plugin is an x86 DLL.
Everything has been working fine so far, except for one thing. Here's the setup:
I have a TForm with a TTreeView and a TPopupMenu components on it.
The TPopupMenu component is assigned to the TTreeView.PopupMenu property.
The TPopupMenu component has nonzero number of menu items created and properties AutoPopup := true, TrackButton := tbRightButton set.
And here's the issue ...
When the form is shown at run-time and the tree view is right-clicked:
The popup menu does not get visible.
Yet, the popup menu's OnPopup event gets executed.
I tried doing this in the minimalistic way - a DLL that has just one export which spawns the form with a treeview and a popup menu, then running the proc. via the Win's rundll32.exe. The same result - no popup menu.
If I try the same setup (form+treeview+popupmenu) from a standalone Win application, it works OK - the popup menu shows up.
Any help on this?
May or may not be related to it:
The PL/SQL Developer's bundled "plugin demo 2 / Delphi" does an assigment of Application.Handle := IDE_GetAppHandle; (with the IDE_GetAppHandle being a callback function from the PLSQL Developer IDE) which I can't do in FPC, since the TApplication class does not have the Handle property.
Any help on this, too?
Found a solution on the FreePascal+Lazarus forum: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,24135.msg144938.html#msg144938
Excerpt: It is a bug in the LCL. But since the LCL sources are distributed along with FPC+Lazarus, you can patch the LCL yourself:
Edit the ${lazarus-install-folder}/lcl/interfaces/win32/win32obj.
Find the TWin32WidgetSet.AppInit procedure definition.
Find the call to CreateAppHandle (commented as // Create parent of all windows, 'button on taskbar') inside the procedure.
Move the call to CreateAppHandle from inside the if not IsLibrary then upwards, immediately before the if.
Save, compile, build ... done.
Apparently, it was related to the Application.Handle issue.
Related
In the Squeak System Browser, I see that there are many class categories related to Etoys:
But how do I access Etoys from Squeak? How do I get something like the screenshot shown below?
(Source of Etoys screenshot: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Squeak_screenshot.png)
There are also Squeak versions set up specifically for Etoys, e.g.:
https://squeak.js.org/etoys/#fullscreen
I think there is easier way than Leandro is proposing.
Just run the Workspace from the menu where you type:
Project enterNewWithInitialBalloons
Select it with mouse and run it - Do it (alt+d). Application should start. I'm unfamiliar with the application. To me it looks similar to the picture you show.
Edit: how did I find it?
I searched through the source code. I have to agree that this is not straight forward.
First I tried to find anything that has to do with Etoys project/class. I tried to find anything that would indicate that you can start it.
This way I found Etoys-Experimental package with class EToysLauncher. The word launcher to me sounded like it could be launched. I looked at the class of the EToysLauncher where I found instance creating protocol where you can find these methods (remember we are still at the experimental package!):
#buildGallery
#buildPanel
#openGallery
#openPanel
If you go through these e.g. EToysLauncher openPanel you will get a message doesNotUnderstand: #latestProjectVersionsFromFileEntries. I then started to investigate the Walkback. I tried to check what is the issue here. I got this message because of the last line ^ Project latestProjectVersionsFromFileEntries: entries.
I went to the Project>>latestProjectVersionsFromFileEntries: to check what it is actually doing. In meantime I have inspected the values from the entries variable in the debugger. In the entries I could find an OrderedCollection but nothing what would satisfy #('*.pr' '*.pr.gz' '*.project') from the method. So I thought to myself, that perphaps the Project itself could satisfy it.
I went to the Project class and protocol Etoys-Squeakland-instance creation where I found two methods #enterNew and #enterNewWithInitialBalloons.
The #enterNew gives doesNotUnderstand: #newMorphicOn: so I skipped that one and tried the #enterNewWithInitialBalloons, which worked and since it is in the protocol Etoys-Squeakland-instance creation I came to the conclusion it has create Etoys-Squeakland new instance.
Edit: Show shared flaps?
Yes, you can activate the flaps also via Show shared flaps.
There is, however, quite a difference between running the Project enterNewWithInitialBalloons and Showing the shared flaps via Preferences.
If you start the Etoys via the Project enterNewWithInitialBalloons you will start completely new project (your currently opened windows will be hidden). To see your previous windows you need to either Porojects/Enter Project and switch to the HomeProject or you have to close the newly opened project via Projects/Close This Project.
The source that shows it is:
enterNewWithInitialBalloons
| newP |
newP := MorphicProject new.
newP world addMorph: (DoCommandOnceMorph new extent: 1#1; actionBlock: [SugarNavigatorBar putUpInitialBalloonHelp]; yourself).
newP enter.
This creates new MorphicProject and to this project it adds new Morph.
On the other hand, if you start it with Preferences/Show shared flaps the flaps will be just added to your current environment without creating a new project.
The source that shows it is: Preferences class >>sharedFlapsSettingChanged
sharedFlapsSettingChanged
"The current value of the showSharedFlaps flag has changed; now react"
self showSharedFlaps "viz. the new setting"
ifFalse:
[Flaps globalFlapTabsIfAny do:
[:aFlapTab | Flaps removeFlapTab: aFlapTab keepInList: true]]
ifTrue:
[Smalltalk isMorphic ifTrue:
[self currentWorld addGlobalFlaps]]
The self currentWorld addGlobalFlaps adds the flaps to the currentWorld. The PasteUpMorph>>addGlobalFlaps creates new PasteUpMorph and adds it.
You can also notice the difference also in the menu bar title Untitled vs. HomeProject.
I am brand new to odoo, just installed version 9 and made a module 'aidentest' using
.>>python odoo.py scaffold aidentest addons
That created the aidentest module in the addons folder. Uncommented everything in the autogenerated files
but when I went to check out my 'Hello World' page at
http://localhost:8069/aidentest/aidentest
I got a 404 not found
So I went to apps to try and load my module, but I could not find it.
Does anyone know what I need to do on Odoo 9 to load up and start coding my custom module?
Briefly: You have to activate developer mode by going to Top right menu>about>activate developer mode
I had basically given up, and was mindlessly clicking about when I hit the 'About' link on the generic-whiteguy dropdown. I had to actually stop thinking before I was able to locate the completely senseless place where they put the thing I need.
The About modal window popped up, and in it was an activate the developer mode button
Some things changed immediately, but I still couldn't find my custom module.
Then I walked away, came back and when I returned I had some auto-generated emails (new things had loaded - slowly). Did this mean that maybe my module had also become accessible? I checked, and sure enough, there it was.
ZERO DOCUMENTATION about this
Please check the config file.Then send the last error it has.
Question
How to use these private functions on other windows? It would be nice to have this knowledge back in the wild. I am specifically trying to get CGSOrderWindow and CGSSetWindowLevel to work.
I was trying in the direction of:
temporarily register as the dock and then register the dock as the dock again immediately afterwards
or
code injection into the Dock process per this comment:
Also, the author of the above project seems determined to make all core functionality available as a framework. It seems to be implemented as code injection into the Dock process.
Reason I know this is possible
I have been doing work on trying to setLevel on window of another app, and focus window of another app if focused. I am posting this again with the info I learned because from my searching online, I know this was done in the past, its just the knowledge is not publicly out there anymore. The sourceforge pages are no longer there. So I was wondering if you could help me make this information public again.
This is the topic I read that gave me this information - http://cocoadev.com/HowtoControlOtherAppsWindows
Here you see comments like:
You cannot control an another app's windows from a user-level process, unfortunately.
SlavaKarpenko
You can, Slava, you just need to register as the Dock. It might be possible to temporarily register as the dock and then register the dock as the dock again immediately afterwards, not sure. I think the call you'd be wanting to investigate as CoreDockRegisterDockOwner in HIServices.framework.
FinlayDobbie
You could also use APE or similar to do control the windows, or (as mentioned above) register as the Dock (look for the private APIs with Universal Connection in their name). Has anyone found a polite way of getting the Dock to give up its universal connection? The only way I can find is to force quit the Dock and grab the universal connection when it's not looking (which prevents the dock reloading).
SamTaylor
There's an open source project up on sourceforge.net that looks much more like the window managers I've used on Unix boxes than Space.app (or Space.dock): http://wsmanager.sourceforge.net/
SteveCook
Verifying things work
This is what I learned, from the sources at bottom of this post, we see all these functions work with CGWindowIds, so how do I get that, this is how:
Get all windows with CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo. Then access each element from that array with CFArrayGetValueAtIndex and then get the CGWindowId with objectForKey:, kCGWindowNumber, and then integerValue.
Now if I try to focus or set level of a window that is OWNED by the app running the code, it works fantastic. For instance:
MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID = 179;
rez_CGError = CGSOrderWindow(_CGSDefaultConnection, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID, kCGSOrderAbove, 0);
Will focus it, rez_CGError is 0. Even if the window is minimized, it is unminimized, without animation, and shown.
Now however, if I try this on a window of a different app we get some errors:
MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app = 40;
rez_CGError = CGSOrderWindow(_CGSDefaultConnection, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app, kCGSOrderAbove, 0);
This fails and rez_CGError is 1000, which I suspect means "cid (CGSConnection) used does not have permission to modify target window". The same happens if I first do [app activateWithOptions: (NSApplicationActivateIgnoringOtherApps | NSApplicationActivateAllWindows)] before making the call above.
So I first get the cid of that owning window like this:
var rez_CGError = CGSGetWindowOwner(_CGSDefaultConnection, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app, &ownerCid);
This works good and I get ownerCid is set to a value. Then I do the focus command with this new connection:
rez_CGError = CGSOrderWindow(ownerCid, MY_TARGET_CGWINDOW_ID_of_other_app, kCGSOrderAbove, 0);
However this gives rez_CGError of 268435459, which I suspect means "current app does not have permission to use this ConnectionId (cid)". (Same happens if I call activateWithOptions first.
My Sources for the Private Functions
Here is the sources for some private functions I found - https://code.google.com/p/undocumented-goodness/source/browse/trunk/CoreGraphics/CGSPrivate.h
This one source here contains a function that is not in the above link - CGSGetConnectionIDForPSN - i test it and it exists - from - https://github.com/mnutt/libqxt/blob/767498816dfa1742a6f3aee787281745afec11b8/src/gui/qxtwindowsystem_mac.h#L80
I implemented WL.OptionsMenu in android environment as specified in Worklight APIs(android/js/mainApp.js). If menu option is clicked, I've given a callback function . Its working fine if the callback resides in the same file. But the implementation of that callback is resided in android/native/common/js/mainApp.js file. Hence, its not showing the menuOptions in android mobile. How to solve this problem?
Edit your question with the contents of mainApp.js
There is no such path, in Worklight, as android/native/common/js/mainApp.js.
Perhaps you mean android/native/assets/www/default/common/js/mainApp.js, but then again, it is exactly the same as android/js/mainApp.js.
The only difference is that android/native/assets/www/default/common/js/mainApp.js is created after you build your application.
There is no reason why it should not work.
Again, edit your question with the contents of mainApp.js and the steps you have taken from creating the project, to running it in your device/emulator.
I’m looking for alternative for existing tests written in QTP for my Win32 application written in Borland C++.
My candidate is White which based on UI Automation because it’s native solution,
I can create my tests using .NET/C# and easily integrate it with nUnit and Hudson.
White
http://white.codeplex.com
MS UI Automation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms747327.aspx
UI Verify
http://uiautomationverify.codeplex.com
I use UI Verify as a spy to identify properties of objects I want to find in my tests.
More or less when I can see something in the spy, I can find it using UI Automation/White.
Generally I don't have much problems with recognizing objects
but when I try to search some content inside the tab contained in Tab Panel
or try to see MenuItems of Menu bar then the problem appears.
UI Automation/UI Verify works wired. When I run UI Verify (1.0 version) I see that objects can be registered properly only then
when I set 'Focus tracking' option and click on target objects or change the keyboard cursor on them. Otherwise it's impossible to find them.
UI Verifier can show me children of my 'tab' panel then. But I can’t find them using UI Automation/White. This is example code:
Tab tab = window.Get();
ITabPage tabPage = tab.SelectedTab;
AutomationElementCollection newCol = tabPage.AutomationElement.FindAll(TreeScope.Descendants, Condition.TrueCondition);
window.Get("buttonName");
the collection is empty even though spy see the children.
Does any of you have some experience with White/UI Automation library that he/she would like to share with me?
I want to implement the tracking feature from the spy to my tests. Can you help me with that? I'm trying to study the code of UIA Verify spy. I think that there are two classes responsible for catching the objects: FocusChangeListener and FocusTracer - this is the code:
http://uiautomationverify.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/9992#214260
http://uiautomationverify.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/9992#214192
Requirements:
1. Windows SDK
2. .NET 3.5
3. White
4. UIA Verify code
Do you have any better alternative for White/UI Automation?
R.
Could you, the R or YoYo, put your form compiled or in source codes (preferable without the internal logic) somewhere on a file share?
I've never seen a control that'd be not caught using UI Automation if UIAVerify sees it. I saw such windows, which could be only caught with the Focus Tracking feature of UIAVerify. This case, such a window is untouchable by UI Automation search.
Regarding a control, are you sure that the controls you struggling with have the Name property? Maybe, this is a value available only by means of ValuePattern, not the Name?