[Windmill-dev] Fwd: [Baypiggies] Windmill

[Mikeal Rogers]

Transaction on BayPIGgies that is worth mentioning.

-Mikeal

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> From: Adam Christian <adam at osafoundation.org>
> Date: October 12, 2007 11:43:51 AM PDT
> To: baypiggies at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] Windmill
>
> Sorry about the email weirdness here, I had to subscribe to the  
> list to respond.
>
> The architecture that we use to do the drag and drop works as follows:
>
> The service gives the windmill IDE a locator for the element to be  
> dragged and the destination of where to drag it, we then compute  
> the offsets, then we use the offsets and a mousemove event to get  
> the cursor over the element and do a mousedown. We then do another  
> mousemove to the calculated coordinates of the destination element  
> and do a mouseup, letting go of the div (our drop).
>
> Right now there is a function in the windmill controller which  
> allows you to pass a function along with your start element and  
> destination element, called windmill.controller.dragDrop.
>
> I plan to put in a few hours this weekend to implement a generic  
> drag drop function into the record that would allow you to record a  
> drag drop motion against a page with no offsets that would work for  
> the most basic scenarios. The next iteration of this would be  
> allowing you to do your recording against a simple page, then pass  
> offset values or a function of offsets to make everything work  
> correctly against a more complex page.
>
> There are instructions on how to write an extension to windmill here:
> http://windmill.osafoundation.org/trac/wiki/BookChapter-7-Extensions
>
> An example of our Cosmo specific drag drop (which has to pull ID's  
> dynamically from a javascript hash):
> http://windmill.osafoundation.org/trac/browser/windmill/trunk/ 
> windmill/js/extensions/extensions.js
>
> line 56, function windmill.controller.extensions.cosmoDragDrop
>
> Hopefully this helps, and I will post again when I have more in the  
> way of an out of the box drag drop recorder in the trunk.
>
> Thanks for your interest,
>
> Adam
>
>
> ____
> Hi,
>
> Windmill looked pretty awesome. This was probably covered, but how  
> does
> it tell communicate with the browser to simulate drag and drop and  
> such?
> I'm definitely going to install it and see if I can put it to use. I
> thought it was an interesting presentation.
>
> Bjorn
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