[Mono-winforms-list] Re: [Mono-dev] Getting and injecting Windows Forms messages

[pablosantosluac at terra.es]

Hi,

Sorry for writing to the wrong list.

I didn't know about nunit-winforms (I think you mean nunitforms, don't 
you?),
nor about the way you fake messages in the tests... I'll have a look into 
that.

Thanks

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Dennis Bartok" <peter at novonyx.com>
To: <pablosantosluac at terra.es>; <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
Cc: <mono-winforms-list at lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Getting and injecting Windows Forms messages


> Pablo,
>
> The better list for this discussion is 
> mono-winforms-list at lists.ximian.com.
>
> If you look at our tests (for example
> mcs/Managed.Windows.Forms/Tests/System.Windows.Forms/Label.cs) you'll see
> that there already are tests that 'fake' messages for testing purposes,
> since our implementation uses Win32 messages even on X11 and OS X. (Our
> window drivers translate native messages into their Win32 equivalents and
> pass them up through the framework). However, we only use and generate the
> subset of messages that we require for proper support of WinForm's
> documented features. (It is left as an excercise for contributors to add
> other messages if they thing the drivers should generate them. Same 
> applies
> to controls, we don't create control-specific notifications like 
> BN_CLICKED
> today, since the managed framework has events that convey the same
> information and we don't need them, but for compatibility it is easy to 
> add
> generation of those down the road. Single line of code most of the time)
>
> There's already an automated test tool called nunit-winforms that allows 
> to
> test winforms apps, it doesn't fully work with our WinForms implementation
> yet (something that's I've started fixing and is on my todo list).
>
> As for injecting messages, I can think of multiple ways of doing that, 
> from
> using reflection to using sendmessage (and on X11 translating that into a
> custom message that our driver understands)
>
> Cheers,
>  Peter
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <pablosantosluac at terra.es>
> To: <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
> Date: Sunday, 20 November, 2005 17:04
> Subject: [Mono-dev] Getting and injecting Windows Forms messages
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>In order to retrieve all the messages processed by an application I think 
>>I
>>can use Application.AddMessageFilter. Ok, but what about injecting them
>>later on?
>>
>>Well, in windows I could use TranslateMessage/DispatchMessage to reinject
>>the "recorded" messages (at least in win32 apps), (BTW fixing msg.Hwnd 
>>with
>>the correct value if you try to "play" after relaunching the application),
>>but with mono (on Linux) this is not possible. Is there a way to do that?
>>
>>With something like that it would be possible to write a multi-platform
>>"test recorder" application for Mono, something to create and run
>>"automated
>>user tests" on both Windows and Linux (and maybe other platforms too...). 
>>I
>>don't know such a tool (AFAIK WinRunner, Rational's TestRobot,
>>AutomatedQA's
>>TestComplete, and the like, only run on Windows) and maybe it would be
>>quite
>>interesting... (at least until we have an Automation namespace like
>>Avalon).
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
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