Re: RFC: Gtk+ testing utilities

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Richard Hult wrote:

> Tim Janik wrote:
> > hey All.
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> [snip]
>
> > /* syncronize rendering operations with X server rendering queue */
> > void            gtk_test_xserver_render_sync    (GdkWindow      *window);
>
> Should this be named less X-ish? I noticed that some of the event
> simulation functions are very X specific anyway, but if we have the API
> at least look generic, we can make it work on other backends later.

the API that generates button or key events should ideally be implemented
for non-X backends as well at some point, yes.

gtk_test_xserver_render_sync() however uses a technique that is only known
to work for X servers (according to keith packard), please search for
"XGetImage" in this email:
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-October/msg00166.html

if there's a chance we could use and implement a similar call for other
windowing system backends though, a rename like you suggest would be good.

Tml, any input? ;)

> /Richard

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