WebVAT, example code

Benjy Cline <benjycline-/[email protected]> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:22:26 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.jrex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Greetings,

Two tidbits for you:

1.  Several people want to use JRex to access the pixel
coordinates of rendered objects such as buttons and text
fields.  JRex doesn't appear to expose the Gecko's page
renderer's Frame Tree data structure.  However, I found
an article about WebVAT that is an open source tool
that uses a modified JRex and Gecko to expose Frame
Trees.

I can't find the source code, but here are the links to
the article and another blurb:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~jmahmud/ICWE2007.pdf
http://www.acm.org/src/subpages/borodin/YevgenBorodin.htm

I don't need this facility; however, I thought others might
be interested in the article.

2.  I found this source code for a JRex-based browser:
http://svn.openqa.org/fisheye/browse/floyd/trunk/src/java/jrex/floyd/jrex/JRexBrowser.java?r=45
I'm not sure what the project is all about; however, it
has methods that illustrate how to programmatically generate
click events.  Someone might be able to use that as an
example.

I haven't actually tried the code.

Benjy
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