Re: [actf-dev] aDesigner question

[Eleni Michailidou <michailidou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Kentarou!

I am now looking into your suggestions for the parser.

Regards,
Eleni


Kentarou Fukuda wrote:
> Hi Eleni,
>
> Sorry for this late reply. 
>
>   
> > - How/Where do you access and extract DOM and CSS information. And where
> > in the code you use this information as an output?
> >     
>
> Currently, aDesigner uses HTML Parser 
> (org.eclipse.actf.model.dom.html.HTMLParser) to obtain the DOM and it does 
> not use CSS information directly. Instead of CSS, aDesigner uses 
> currentStyle information from the browser (IE).
>
> (details about currentStyle)    
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa704104(VS.85).aspx
>
> Before we moved to Eclipse, we used a Visual Basic component to obtain 
> these information. We planned to re-implement this function by using 
> ACTF's runtime DOM access mechanism (org.eclipse.actf.model.dom.dombycom). 
>
>
> I'm now working for this part as in bug [233615] 
> (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=233615). After the IP 
> review of Eclipse, we can provide APIs to obtain current style 
> information.
>
> BTW, even now, you can obtain IE's runtime DOM from 
> IWebBrowserACTF.getLiveDocument() function.
> Elements within the DOM implement 
> org.eclipse.actf.model.dom.dombycom.IElementEx.
> By using getStyle() function of this interface, you can access to CSS 
> style info (currentStyle) via org.eclipse.actf.model.dom.dombycom.IStyle.
>
> Ex.     IStyle.get("backgroundColor"), get("display"), etc.
>
>   
> > - How/Where is the heat-map/overlay visualization done?
> > Based on previous discussion with Simon, you mentioned that you might
> > extend the visualization. Is this under progress?
> >     
>
> Yes. I'm now also implementing the overlay utility.
> I plan to provide simple RCP example that includes access to DOM/style 
> info and overlay.
>
> Best regards,
> ---
> Kentarou Fukuda, Ph.D.
> Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan
> Tel: +81-46-215-4659
> E-mail: kentarou@xxxxxxxxxx
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