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@@ -0,0 +1,597 @@ +dogtail 0.9.0 +============= +Over the last year we've made a good number of fixes, added some new features +and got overall stability to the point where we can make a new 'major minor' +release. With 0.9 we're finally getting only a step away from what we'd like +to get done with 1.0. + + + * Added a fix for situations when a previously crashed application + still registered with at-spi blocks search ('Broken' session problem) + Fixed for root.application(), root.applications() and for whenever + GeneralPredicate is used (.child()). Also done for Sniff. RHBZ 972257 + + * Added a support for gnome-continuous build-api (#36) + + * Added a direct lambda support in the findChildren method, that allows + using non-predicate lambdas to create search properties. These can be + all pure dogtail Node properties (i.e. showing), not limiting to just + pyatspi ones as is when using Predicate. + + * Added a GnomeShell 'helper' class into utils module allowing to work + with the new top-panel application menu. + + * With GTK3.10+ Gdk changes, needed to tune the keyNameToKeyCode function + so that it provides valid keySym in as many cases possible - with both + pre-GTK3.10 as well as GTK3.11+ having the same behavior in typeText and + pressKey + + * Sniff ui update: the info pane now stays down on resizing + + * Got rid of some deprecated GObject calls + + * Several updates to the dogtail-run-headless-next + - Any kind of session can now be used in any combination with both gdm/kdm + --session can be used to specify any xsession desktop file, 'kde' defaults + to 'kde-plasma' too keep pre-updated compatibility; default is now the previous user session + --dm - new param to pick either gdm (default) or kdm + --session-binary - new param to specify any in-session binary to grab script env from + - to be used with non gnome/kde session (lxde, ubuntu) + - do not confuse with session execs like gnome-session and starkde, that may + actually exit after session loadup; it should be everpresent (kwin, shell...) + - Added a --restart switch to force restart the previously running (often left-over) session before proceeding + - More logging of script execution (start/stop/PID), and some cleanups + + * Trap GErrors in findAllDescendants and retry if it occurs: This fixes crashes in findChildren if elements are being added/removed quickly + + * Unicode handling updates: + - Make sure safeDecode is not skipping any strings + - Don't crash when logging message contains unicode + + * Error Handling for Attribute Error + + * Fixed utils.run issue when having whitespace containing binary by + using shlex shell-like parsing split. + + * Removed an always true if condition in i18n + + * Log child description when clicking. The log will now print the element description when it will be clicked + + * Trap TypeError in findAllDescendants: Sometimes pytaspi returns None as a Node if children are being removed too fast. + We should retry search in this case + + * Extended the default TypingDelay from 0.075 to 0.1 seconds (helps working with certain high unicode charactes) + + * Fixed an bug in sniff discovered by jmolet that made sniff crash when + run from /bin/sniff not /usr/bin/sniff + + * Generate a better script method call for labels + + * Fix for failing 'focus.application.node' seting + + * Derive all classes from object explicitely + + * Changed icons used in sniff that got moved to the gnome-icon-theme-legacy + recently for the ones from non-legacy package. + + * Unified the 'isSth' vs. 'sth' properties for only 'sth' - added 'selected', but also introduced + 'isChecked' property for 0.7.x compatibility + + * Added instructions on how to enable accessibility into utils.bailBecauseA11yIsDisabled() + + * Added a 'retry' option to the tree.root.application() + + * Fixed the concurrent creation of sniff_refresh lock from both tree and procedural + + * Switched to use environ value to get user in config. os.getlogin breaks when run scheduled from a testing system with no terminal. + + * Patched the mouse related rawinput methods to prevent using negative coordinates + + * Updated and added more unittests + +dogtail 0.8.2 +============= +Second update to the 0.8 series containing several fixes and improvements + + * Added the dogtail-run-headless-next to replace the dogtail-run-headless in future. + -next, uses a diplay manager (kdm or gdm) for session management, should be used instead of older + headless on systemd systems already + + * Unittests vastly improved and updated + + * Fixed a missing reset of FocusWindow to None on application refocus + + * Fixed the dogtail-logout to use gnome-shell instead of old gnome-panel + +dogtail 0.8.1 +============= +A first update to the new GNOME3 / KDE4 compatible release containing several fixes: + + * Sniff's autorefresh made togglable, to help avoid collisions with potential + running dogtail scripts. Sniff checks at startup whether some script is running + and sets up the autorefresh off if it is. + + * Added a locking mechanism into utils that can be used to solve situations when + multiple dogtail processes/thread are running (applied in tree/procedural and sniff + already) + + * Removed the deprecated dependency on CORBA + + * Icons no longer use absolute pathing in sniff (thx roignac) + + * Deprecated .has_key() operator replaced with 'in'. + + * Removed .svg inside sniff's .desktop file + +dogtail 0.8.0 +============= +Finally a big release updating dogtail after more than 2 years ! Dogtail +is developed and maintained now again. + +Simply put, ported to be compatible with the new GNOME 3 and to work well in major +GNOME 3 (GTK3) distributions. + +We'd like to make the 0.8.x version onward the GNOME 3 compatible branch usable +for Fedora, RHEL7 and others, while keeping 0.7.x releases for fixes in older GNOME2 +systems. + +--- What was done --- + +Notably, Sniff's UI needed to ported completely to GTK3, yet there are +also several places in dogtail 'itself' that needed to be rewritten to go ahead +with the new technologies. Those were all the modules where the old pygtk was +used for various reasons (rawinput, utils, tree...). Incompatibilites were also +present due to the new version of pyatspi (notably with the doAction method). + +Release highlights: + +* A great number of fixes everywhere related to GTK/GNOME/At-Spi updates + +* The dogtail-recorder was dropped for now, but might return in RC or 0.8.1 + +* Thanks to the qt-at-spi project, dogtail now works out-of-the-box for QT! + +* Headless supports KDE sessions + +* Headless working with full 3D-Accelerated GNOME session (no fallback anymore) + +* Highlight used in sniff completely re-written and made toggleable (of by default) + +* Makefile updated, 'make run' builds packages in homedir/rpmbuld now + +* Several examples fixed for updated gedit + +* Added tree.isChild() convenience method + +* Renamed doAction to doActionNamed due to conflict with doAction inside + pyatspi namespace + +* Delay made configurable in absoluteMotion and relativeMotion functions + +* Changed at-spi activation to use DConf instead of GConf + +* A bit of code clean-up and modernization (using @property now etc.) + +* More error checking added + +* A couple of unit tests for Node added + +* Node.findChildren() updated to be faster + + +dogtail 0.7.0 +============= + +This release has too many changes to list. Here are some of the major ones: + +* Dogtail has been ported to pyatspi. This means: + - Faster performance. + - Errors will be more clear. + - No more segfaulting or myserious crashes. + +* There is now useful generated API documentation: + http://fedorapeople.org/~zmc/dogtail/epydoc/ + +* Inline documentation has been greatly improved. + +* Headless execution support was completely rewritten. + +* Sniff was completely rewritten. It is now: + - Faster. + - More reliable. + - Self-updating via AT-SPI events. + - Slightly prettier. + - Able to tell you about certain states and relations. + +* Image Comparison (TCImage) was rewritten. No more ImageMagick! + +Note: tests/Node.py's TestNodeAttributes is failing due to GNOME bugs #498557 + and #498563 + + +dogtail 0.6.1 +============= + +Features: + + * dogtail-recorder has a Play button now. + + * dogtail-recorder now records right-clicks. That it didn't previously was an + oversight. Note that there is some inconsistency when dealing with context + menus, as the events often get fired in the wrong order. + + * New logging mechanism: + + - Debug output is now written to a file. To disable this, set + dogtail.config.config.logDebugToFile to False. + + - The procedural API defaults to not raising FocusErrors, and instead + issuing warnings via the debug logging mechanism (which prints to + standard out along with writing to a file). To re-enable FocusErrors, set + dogtail.config.config.fatalErrors to True. + + * Brian Cameron submitted a patch to make dogtail.distro correctly detect that + it is running on Solaris. + +Bugfixes: + + * dogtail-recorder no longer offers the broken Object-Oriented backend as a + choice. If it gets fixed, it will be offered again. + + * dogtail-recorder can be properly exited by clicking on the window manager + close button. In fact, the Quit button was removed also. + + * dogtail-recorder's syntax hilighting works again, thanks to a patch from + Dave Malcolm. + + * Searching for nodes with parentheses in their names will no longer fail. + + * The various pressKey() functions were blowing up on punctuation and + newlines. Fixed. + + * Predicate subclasses in dogtail.predicate which were missing debugNames have + gotten them back. + + * Warnings are no longer issued when dogtail encounters invalid Unicode. + + * Where several of our example scripts were broken, Michal Babej noticed and + submitted patches fixing them. + + * dogtail's tarball is 90% smaller! Some overly large test images were + replaced with very, very small ones that still do the job. + + +dogtail 0.6.0 +============= + +Features: + + * Keystroke recording support in dogtail-recorder: + + - Normal keypresses (e.g. typing 'foo bar baz') will be recorded as + "type('foo bar baz')" in the procedural API. dogtail.tree.Node has a new + method, typeText(), which is called by dogtail.procedural.type(). + + - Nonprintable keypresses (e.g. typing Control-Shift-c) will be recorded as + "keyCombo('<Control><Shift>c')" in the procedural API. dogtail.tree.Node + has a new method, keyCombo(), which is called by + dogtail.procedural.keyCombo(). + + - The now-unnecessary 'Input Text' button has been removed. + + * dogtail.tree.Node has new attributes and a new method: + + - grabFocus(): Attempts to cause the node to grab the keyboard focus. + + - focusable: Whether the node is able to have keyboard focus. + + - focused: Whether the node currently has keyboard focus. + + - checked: Whether the node is a checkbox that is currently checked. + + * Dogtail now checks if accessibility is enabled before it does anything. + sniff and dogtail-recorder will prompt to enable it via a dialog, and + scripts themselves will just refuse to run. + + * Dogtail no longer uses the IconLogger (in the notification area) by default. + Set dogtail.config.config.useIconLogger to True to reenable it. + + * dogtail.utils.screenshot() was rewritten to use GDK instead of ImageMagick. + +Bugfixes: + + * Dogtail is now much more robust in dealing with possibly-invalid Unicode + strings passed to it via AT-SPI. (GNOME bug #354515) + + * Dogtail will not crash when it receives an SpiException caused by a CORBA + COMM_FAILURE, unless the source of that error is the application under test. + + * While exceptions occuring inside callbacks used in dogtail-recorder will + still not properly be raised, they are now printed to standard out. + + * SuSe support in dogtail.distro is fixed. (GNOME bug #353601) + + * sniff and dogtail-recorder will now find their glade files, even if they're + installed into a nonstandard prefix. (GNOME bug #353719, #353731) + + * dogtail-run-headless had a few bugs fixed. + + +dogtail 0.5.2 +============= + +Features: + + * A much-improved recorder: + + - A procedural script writer, which is now default. + + - An 'Input Text' feature, which allows you to set the text attribute + of any visible Node via the recorder. Coming soon is proper keystroke + recording. + + - The script view now uses syntax hilighting where available. (GNOME bug + #345374) + + * A completely-rewritten dogtail-run-headless, which now offers two session + types: minimal GNOME and metacity. The syntax has changed, so use + 'dogtail-run-headless --help' to get started. (GNOME bug #320548) + + * All 'name' arguments in dogtail.tree and dogtail.procedural now accept + regular expressions. + + * Support for AccessibleSelections, providing a clean way to select page + tabs and combo box items. (GNOME bug #336562) + + * Support for building in a jhbuild environment. (GNOME bug #318535) + + * Far more extensive unit tests for dogtail.tree.Node. + +Bugfixes: + + * The source is now indented with spaces and not tabs! :) (GNOME bug #318833) + + * Pyspi and dogtail no longer mysteriously stop working. (GNOME bug #321273) + + * Sniff no longer crashes when an application being poked disappears. (GNOME + bug #318135) + + +dogtail 0.5.1 +============= + +Features: + + * An improved build system for RPMs. + + * dogtail.procedural's FocusErrors are now more informative. + +Bugfixes: + + * examples/recorder.py was broken; a bug in dogtail.predicate.makeCamel() + was breaking the predicates' makeScriptVariableName() calls. It's fixed. + + +dogtail 0.5.0 +============= + +Features: + + * Automatic runtime translation into the current locale using the application + under test's own translations. See + examples/gedit-test-utf8-procedural-api.py for an example. + + * dogtail.distro.packageDb gained new methods: getFiles(), getMoFiles(), and + getDependencies(). + + * dogtail.distro.packageDb now has support for JHBuild environments. + + * dogtail.distro has gained exceptions: + + - PackageNotFoundError: raised when the specified package is not found. + + - DistributionNotSupportedError: raised when support for the current + distribution is not currently implemented in dogtail.distro. This does + not mean that dogtail will not work at all; only that + distribution-specific functionality, like automatic runtime translation, + will not. + + * dogtail.errors is a new module for very general exceptions, such as + DependencyNotFoundError, which is raised when the use of a feature that + depends on some missing piece of software is attempted. + + * sniff will now cause the selected node to blink onscreen. + + * dogtail.tree has a new Node subclass, Link. Link nodes have a roleName of + 'hyper link' and an action called 'jump'. Their main purpose is to allow + us to follow links in web pages. + + * dogtail.tree.Node has new properties and methods: + + - position: the onscreen position of the node, if it wraps an + atspi.Component. + + - size: the onscreen size of the node, if it wraps an atspi.Component. + + - blink(): causes the node to blink onscreen. + + - grabFocus(): causes the node to grab the keyboard focus, if it wraps an + atspi.Component. + + - rawClick(): synthesizes a raw mouse click on the node, if it wraps an + atspi.Component. + + - rawType(): synthesizes raw keyboard events to type text into the node, if + it wraps an atspi.Component. + + * dogtail.procedural has new helper methods: + + - menu(): executes the 'menu' action on the focused widget. + + - focus.frame(): a shortcut to focus.widget(roleName='frame' ...) + + - focus.window(): a shortcut to focus.widget(roleName='window' ...) + + * dogtail.procedural.click() can now synthesize raw mouse events to perform + "raw" clicks. + + * dogtail.rawinput has gained new methods: + + - pressKey(): synthesizes a raw keyboard event, pressing the key whose + name is specified. + + - typeText(): types a specified string, one key at a time, using raw + keyboard events. + + * dogtail.config was rewritten. + + * dogtail.config.config has new parameters: + + - ensureSensitivity: controls whether a NotSensitiveError is raised when + an attempt is made to execute an action belonging to a Node instance + that is not sensitive, or if a warning is simply printed instead (the + default). + + - debugTranslation: Controls whether details of the autotranslation + process will be outputted to the debug logger. + + * dogtail.config now creates its scratchDir, dataDir, and logDir as soon as + the values are set. + + * dogtail.utils.screenshot(), by default, whether using a custom filename or + not, now appends a timestamp to the filename. That may be disabled by + passing 'timeStamp = False' to the method. For this reason, it also prints + the full path to the screenshot. + + * dogtail.logging.TimeStamp.fileStamp()'s format has changed, to + filename_YYYYMMDD-hhmmss or just filename_YYYYMMDD, controlled by the new + optional argument 'addTime'. + + * dogtail prints the full path to any logfiles it creates. + + * dogtail-run-headless will now turn accessibility on before executing the + script under test, and also restore the old value after the the script has + finished executing (GNOME bug #320548). + +Bugfixes: + + * sniff will correctly show the text of a non-editable text node again + (GNOME bug #321564). + + * dogtail.tree.screenshot() was mostly rewritten, and no longer breaks when + given a custom filename. + + * dogtail.procedural no longer causes PyDoc to fail miserably (or at all). + + * dogtail will no longer warn about missing wnck bindings, because they're + not actually used anyway. + + * dogtail.procedural.focus.dialog() no longer searches recursively (GNOME + bug #321624). + + * dogtail.procedural.focus.widget() and its shortcut functions now properly + raise a FocusError if their search fails. + + * dogtail.tc.TCString.compare() will now fail properly again, thanks to + Muktha Narayan (GNOME bug #321151). + + * dogtail.tc.TCImage.compare() now works with the newest version of + ImageMagick. That version had changed its behavior, breaking the function. + (GNOME bug #321431). + + * Attempting to instantiate a dogtail.tc.TCImage object while ImageMagick is + not installed will now give a comprehensible error message, thanks to the + new dogtail.errors.DependencyNotFoundError exception. + + * Calling dogtail.utils.screenshot() while ImageMagick is not installed will + also raise a dogtail.errors.DependencyNotFoundError. + + * Attempting to execute an action belonging to a Node instance that isn't + sensitive no longer fails by default, but prints a warning. This behavior + is controlled by the ensureSensitivity configuration parameter. + + * dogtail-run-headless now correctly returns the exit code of the script + being executed (GNOME bug #320535). + + * dogtail.distro's APT support implementation now only calls + apt_pkg.GetCache() once, improving performance significantly when multiple + calls to packageDb.get{Version,Dependencies}() are needed. + + * Building RPM packages from the supplied dogtail.spec works again on distros + that are as old or older than RHEL4. + + * Building RPM packages with 'make rpm' works again without root privileges. + +API breaks: + + * Action execution via dogtail.tree.Node instances was forced to change + interfaces from the "node.open()" model to a "node.doAction('open')" + model. To retain backward compatibility with the application wrappers, the + "click" action is still available as "node.click()". The + dogtail.procedural interface was able to remain unchanged. + + * dogtail.config was rewritten to be more robust, and its interface was + changed slightly. To port, First, remove any instantiations of the old + Config class, and then make the following parameter replacements: + + - Config => config + - logdir => logDir + - scratch => scratchDir + - data => dataDir + + +dogtail 0.4.3 +============= + +Features: + * Headless support has been added. Use dogtail-run-headless to spawn an X + server, a minimal "Nat/Jeff" GNOME session, and execute a given dogtail + script before exiting. The dogtail-detect-session script detects a running + GNOME session, but KDE support can be dropped in once KDE has accessibility + support. + + * dogtail now uses a notification icon while it is running. Its tooltip is + equal to the last message relayed by the debug logger. Most of the code + was taken from jhbuild. + + * Sniff, the AT-SPI browser that uses the dogtail libraries, has gained icons + for both applications and specific widgets (based on the role name, taken + from at-poke) to make browsing easier. + + * Sniff also gained a proper dogtail icon. + + * The procedural API has been given more convenience functions for 'focusing' + different types of widgets. + + * The procedural API has also been given an openItem() method, which works + just like click(), for opening icons on nautilus' desktop. + + * dogtail can now detect Gentoo and Conary distributions, thanks to Brent + Smith and Tim Gerla, respectively. + + * The Node class in dogtail.tree now exports the 'role' attribute in addition + to the 'role name'. + + * Wrappers for gcalctool and yelp were added, thanks to Dave Malcolm. + + * A wrapper for gedit was added, thanks to Paolo Borelli. + + * New examples for Evolution, gcalctool and the GTK file chooser were added, + thanks to Dave Malcolm. + + * Dave Malcolm also enhanced the Evolution wrapper, adding support for + creating new meetings. + + * A new example that generates fake documentation for a given application has + been added, thanks to Dave Malcolm. + + * dogtail.spec has been added, thanks to Jeremy Katz, to improve the quality + of the RPM packages. + +Bugfixes: + * several examples had not been updated to reflect API changes before the + last release. This has been corrected. + + * The epiphany wrapper now uses the package name 'epiphany-browser' on + Debian-based distributions to detect the package version, thanks to Andrew + Beresford. |