How to refresh window list immediately

[yilang2007lw]

Hi， I am using ldtp to test cinnamon system settings for linuxmint, but I found the getwindowlist method sometimes don't refresh the window title even though it changed actually. When I click the background icon by generatemouseevent, the getwindowlist method should return 'frmBackgrounds' but it still return 'frmSystemSettings' for me, waittillguiexist does't take effect.Is this a bug or there has some method I don't know to refresh the window title, thanks for any reply.

yilang

[nagappan]

What happens when you try this with accerciser ? If the behavior is NOT same, then there is some issue on LDTP side, else you can try calling remap() function and see if that helps.

[yilang2007lw]

I can't try that with accerciser because accerciser's UI blocked heavily.I think this is ldtp's problem. Because when I test in ipython shell, the returned window title was wrong(should return 'frmBackgrounds but returned 'frmSystemSettings'), but when I exit the ipython and enter ipython and import ldtp again, the window title was correct.
The remap function doesn't take effect as it is used to refresh the content of a window, don't include the window's property itself.And also, when I launch and exit cinnmon-settings multiple times, the getapplist function returned wrong(It return many 'cinnmon-settings' items but there is actually no cinnamon-settings process exists any more)
I remember these has a method named 'setcontext' in the old ldtp version, but it doesn't exist any more,any other way to solve the problem?
Thanks for youre reply, I think you can have a try in your distribution's system control center, I think you can easily reproduce the problem.

[yilang2007lw]

Hi nagappan, I get the solution is import ldtp in my each function independently, not import ldtp with whole module or class. I think this is bug of ldtp for cache mechanism, it should listen the accessible object name change event. I had try some code with libatspi's c api, there is no problem, but also the performance is not very good.If you have some solution for any of the problem, please reply me, thanks very much.

[nagappan]

Can you please provide me sample script to reproduce the issue ? What Linux distribution you are trying with ?

[yilang2007lw]

The solution upstair takes no effect as del ldtp module and then import it again brings other problems, so I give up to join my ldtp's action together. I test each gui operation one by one now, then there shouldn't have window title change.Sorry for my post and bad english.

I use linuxmint-17-cinnamon-64bit-v2,you can show the problem like this:

1. Start ipython, type "import ldtp", then type "ldtp.launchapp('cinnamon-settings')"
   2.When launch finish, type "ldtp.getwindowlist()", you will see 'frmSystemSettings' in the output.
   3.Then switch to the cinnamon-settings app, click the 'background' icon, wait till load Backgrounds module finish.
   4.Go back to ipython shell, then type "ldtp.getwindowlist()", at the moment, the output should contain 'frmBackgrounds' , but it still print me 'frmSystemSettings'.

That's all, I think you can easily repeat this problem in your distribution as many distribution have an app like system settings, thanks verymuch.

[nagappan]

John, Can you please take a look at this ? Thanks

[cherryliu1992]

I maybe have the same issue, do you have any solution ever

I cannot grab focus on the new object when the window refresh to show new objects though this object is in appmap