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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Execution replay for Qt/KDE applications
From:       Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date:       2004-10-17 4:58:03
Message-ID: 200410170058.05301.ben () meyerhome ! net
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> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:37:53 +0200, Oliver Oppitz <o.oppitz@web.de> wrote:
> > >> From: Benjamin Meyer <ben@meyerhome.net>
> > >> It would also be useful in developing tutorials for users. I.e. it
> > >> would be
> > >> possible to let the application show which steps to take to
> > >> activate/use a
> > >> certain feature.
> > >>  best,
> > >> Jeroen
> > >
> > >What about with dcop?
> > >http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/automation/
> >
> > AFAIK dcop is an IPC mechanism and therefore only allows to call
> > "functions" that are exported by the other application. In the document
> > you pointed out there is a hint on automatically exporting all KActions
> > or so. But even this is a different thing than recording all QEvents.
> > QEvents are more low level (Keyboard, Mouse, Redraw etc.)
> >
> > I wrote a very simple record/replay proof of concept program by now. It
> > is limited to only record keystrokes at the moment, but I will extend it
> > to all relevant events. When called with "-record" parameter the program
> > opens a QTextEdit and records the keystrokes.  When called with "-replay"
> > it opens a QTextEdit widget and replays those keys. Looks light a ghost
> > typing ;-)
> >
> > Regards, Oliver
> >
On Saturday 16 October 2004 7:29 pm, LiuCougar wrote:
> cool. I really interested in this kind of possibility. Maybe this can
> be merged into Qt in the future?
>
> What about setting up a project in the SF?
>
> Regards,

Or just putting it in kdenonbeta

- -Benjamin Meyer
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