Re: WebVAT, example code

Greetings,

To follow up, I received e-mail from someone associated
with WebVAT who indicated it was discontinued due to the
fact JRex is not supported.

Benjy

Benjy Cline wrote:
> 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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