Comments on: Using White To Test Kosmos GUI

By: breki

breki — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:55:42 +0000

@adam,

Thanks for the info. I actually did test it a long time ago on an openSUSE virt. image and, as you point out, it runs quite slowly. I suspect the biggest problem is Mono's implementation of GDI+ drawing engine. The good news is that I'm in the process of rewriting the Kosmos drawing code and it will be much less reliant on GDI+ (there will be an alternative Cairo mode which I hope will run faster on Mono). So I hope Kosmos v3 will be more portable. Also, I've become an (almost) regular user of Linux now, so it will be easier for me to support Kosmos on Linux.

By: adam

adam — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:02:26 +0000

I installed openSUSE on VMWare Player and did a quick test of Kosmos.Gui on it. It actually runs without any additional code changes. It does sometimes break down on the “Open file” dialog however, but this looks like a bug in Mono. Kosmos.Gui runs quite slowly on my VM, especially on zoomed-in maps when it has to draw street names. Anyway, test it if you want on your Linux machines and let me know about your experience.

By: igorbrejc.net » White Facade - Fluent Interface For Writing Tests Using White

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:06:07 +0000

[...] few days ago I wrote about my first experiences in using White. I mentioned I wanted to create a facade around the White API in order to avoid constantly retyping [...]

By: breki

breki — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:18:05 +0000

Vivek,

Thank you for the response. I'll be sure to check out the documentation in the source code.

Regarding shortcuts, here's a simple code to parse WinForms-style shortcuts from the string into a System.Windows.Forms.Keys enumeration (although I suppose you would want something more general, not WinForms, for White):

try { KeysConverter converter = new KeysConverter (); Keys shortcutKeys = (Keys)converter.ConvertFromInvariantString (value); } catch (ArgumentException) { throw new ArgumentException(String.Format (System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "Illegal hotkey '{0}'.", value)); }

Looking forward to the next release of White. And keep up the good work!

By: Vivek Singh

Vivek Singh — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:08:55 +0000

I am sorry for your not so good experience. I am making sure the next release, NDoc is much better. As you said, there is lot more documentation in the source which for some reason didnt showup in the NDoc and I didn’t check it. Yes, but the intention is not to leave it undocumented. There is a release coming up next week. I would try to address some of your concerns. Also if you face any issue you can raise it is IssueTracker or Discussion List. I like your idea of Ctrl+O. Regarding providing a wrapper, the release after next should answer something around this. It ready for use but I havent released it because it isnt documented completely yet. Sorry again, but your ideas are welcome.