[Laszlo-user] Sending an onclick to a button with a debugger command

[P T Withington]

We could go in at a lower level too, if you wanted.  My synthesizing  
mouse events.  But maybe what you have is enough for now.

On 2007-07-09, at 12:47 EDT, Frisco Del Rosario wrote:

>   I said:
>
> <button text="click" id="me" onclick="doSomething"/>
>
> Rather than click the button, can I send the button an onclick event
> through the debugger input field?
>
> To which P T Withington replied:
>
> me.onclick.sendEvent(me);
>
> This means we can test the results of a buttonclick in Selenium. For
> instance:
>
> <canvas debug="true">
>      <edittext id="myEdittext" width="300" x="20" y="20"
> text="cartman"/>
>      <button id="me" text="click" x="20" y="50"
> onclick="myEdittext.setAttribute('text', 'kyle')"/>
> </canvas>
>
> To test the 'me' button -- does its click change 'cartman' to  
> 'kyle' in
> the edittext field? -- we have the Selenese script:
>
> <tr>
> 	<td>type</td>
> 	<td>LaszloDebuggerInput</td>
> 	<td>myEdittext.text=='cartman'</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> 	<td>click</td>
> 	<td>//input[@value='eval']</td>
> 	<td></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> 	<td>assertTextPresent</td> // does myEdittext.text == cartman?
> 	<td>true</td>
> 	<td></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> 	<td>click</td>
> 	<td>//input[@value='clear']</td>
> 	<td></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> 	<td>type</td>
> 	<td>LaszloDebuggerInput</td>
> 	<td>me.onclick.sendEvent(me)</td> // change myEdittext.text to  
> kyle with the button
> </tr>
> <tr>
> 	<td>click</td>
> 	<td>//input[@value='eval']</td>
> 	<td></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> 	<td>type</td>
> 	<td>LaszloDebuggerInput</td>
> 	<td>myEdittext.text=='kyle'</td> // now test for whether  
> myEdittext.text changed to kyle
> </tr>
> <tr>
> 	<td>click</td>
> 	<td>//input[@value='eval']</td>
> 	<td></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> 	<td>assertTextPresent</td> // success!
> 	<td>true</td>
> 	<td></td>
> </tr>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> assertEquals(Frisco Del Rosario, OpenLaszlo tester)