[Wtr-general] Application Map

[Raghu Venkataramana]

The XML Object repository implemented addresses this problem. There we 
define all objects using
an xml repository. When we need to use it, all you have to say is

Repository("SearchField").do_your_action

Thanks
Raghu

Adrian Rutter wrote:

>Hi,
>
>If we take a look at the 'googlesearch' example. we have two actions that
>are sent to different objects
>
>ie.text_field(:name, "q").set("pickaxe")       # q is the name of the
>search field
>ie.button(:name, "btnG").click   # "btnG" is the name of the Search button
>
>
>I think what we'd have to map is this:
>
>text_field(:name, "q")
>
>so
>
>SearchField="text_field(:name, 'q')"
>
>
>Now.I was thinking of using the Ruby HashMap, so we could have
>
>googlewin = {
> "SearchField" => "text_field(:name, 'q')"
> "SearchButon"  => "button(:name, 'btnG')"
>
> ... etc
>
>}
>
>We will need to keep all action methods in a collection as well (e.g.
>click, set)
>
>So the test table will look something like this
>
>test,       win         object            Action      Arg         #header
>
>T,    googlewin,  SearchField,      set,  "PickAxe"
>T,    googlewin,  SearchButon,      click
>
>We could read in and process the above input, so the script will look like
>
>GUIAction = "ie." + object + "." + Action "." + Args
>
>Questions
>
>1. What do you think?
>2. Should I put every GUIobject within 1 class with every window being a
>different method or each window being a separate class?
>3. I am not so sure on the Ruby syntax to get the value from a key? Is it
>something like ' googlewin.key("SearchField")' ?
>
>Aidy
>
>
>
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