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Table of Contents
This extension is a minimal set of client and server extensions required to completely test the X11 server with no user intervention.
This extension is not intended to support general journaling and playback of user actions. This is a difficult area [XTrap, 89] as it attempts to synchronize synthetic user interactions with their effects; it is at the higher level of dialogue recording/playback rather than at the strictly lexical level. We are interested only in the latter, simpler, case. A more detailed discussion and justification of the extension functionality is given in [Drake, 91].
We are aiming only to provide a minimum set of facilities that solve immediate testing and validation problems. The testing extension itself needs testing, where possible, and so should be as simple as possible.
We have also tried to:
Confine the extension to an appropriate high level within the server to minimize portability problems. In practice this means that the extension should be at the DIX level or use the DIX/DDX interface, or both. This has effects, in particular, on the level at which "input synthesis" can occur.
Minimize the changes required in the rest of the server.
Minimize performance penalties on normal server operation.
The functions provided by this extension fall into two groups:
Client Operations |
These routines manipulate otherwise hidden client-side behavior. The
actual implementation will depend on the details of the actual language
binding and what degree of request buffering, GContext caching, and so on, is
provided.
In the C binding, defined in "XTEST Extension Library", routines are
provided to access the internals of two opaque data structures
-- |
Server Requests | The first of these requests is similar to that provided in most extensions: it allows a client to specify a major and minor version number to the server and for the server to respond with major and minor versions of its own. The remaining two requests allow the following:
|
The following types are used in the request and event definitions in subsequent sections:
FAKE_EVENT_TYPE
{ KeyPress,
KeyRelease,
MotionNotify,
ButtonPress,
ButtonRelease }
| |
| FAKE_EVENT | [type: FAKE_EVENT_TYPE, |
| detail: BYTE, | |
| time: TIME, | |
| root: WINDOW, | |
| rootX, rootY: INT16] | |
CURSOR { CurrentCursor, None }
or a cursor as defined by the X11 Protocol.
These are abstract definitions of functionality. They refer to client-side objects such as "GC" and "VISUAL" that are quoted to denote their abstract nature. Concrete versions of these functions are defined only for particular language bindings. In some circumstances a particular language binding may not implement the relevant abstract type or may provide it as a transparent, rather than opaque, type, with the result that the corresponding function does not make sense or is not required, respectively.
| gc: "GC" |
| gid: GCONTEXT |
Sets the GCONTEXT within the "GC" gc to have the value specified by gid.
| visual: "VISUAL" |
| visualid: VISUALID |
Sets the VISUALID within the "VISUAL" visual to have the value specified by visualid.
| dpy: "CONNECTION" |
| => |
| status: BOOL |
Discards any requests that are present in the request buffer associated with
the "CONNECTION" dpy.
The status returned is
True
if there were one or more requests
in the buffer and
False
otherwise.
XTestGetVersion
| clientMajorVersion: CARD16 |
| clientMinorVersion: CARD16 |
| => |
| serverMajorVersion: CARD16 |
| serverMinorVersion: CARD16 |
Errors: Length
|
This request can be used to ensure that the server version of the XTEST extension is usable by the client. This document defines major version two (2), minor version one (1).
XTestCompareCursor
| window: WINDOW |
cursor-id: CURSOR or
CurrentCursor
or
None
|
| => |
| same: BOOL |
Errors:
Window,
Length,
Cursor
|
This request looks up the cursor associated with the window and
compares it with either the null cursor if cursor-id is
None ,
or the current cursor (that is, the one being displayed),
or the cursor whose ID is cursor-id, and returns
the result of the comparison in same.
XTestFakeInput
| events: LISTofFAKE_EVENT |
Errors:
Window,
Length,
Alloc,
Value
|
This request simulates the limited set of core protocol events within the set FAKE_EVENT_TYPE. Only the following event fields, defined in FAKE_EVENT, are interpreted:
type |
This must be one of
|
detail |
For key events, this field is interpreted as the physical keycode.
If the keycode is less than min-keycode or greater than max-keycode,
as returned in the connection setup, then a
|
time |
This is either
|
root |
In the case of motion events this field is the ID of the root window on
which the new motion is to take place. If
|
rootX & rootY | In the case of motion events these fields indicate relative distance or absolute pointer coordinates, according to the setting of detail. If the specified coordinates are off-screen, the closest on-screen coordinates will be substituted. |
When the simulated event(s) are processed, they cause event propagation, passive grab activation, and so on, just as if the corresponding input device action had occurred. However, motion events might not be recorded in the motion history buffer.
For the currently supported event types, the event list must have length one,
otherwise a
BadLength
error occurs.
| impervious: BOOL |
If impervious is
True,
then the executing client becomes impervious to server grabs;
that is, it can continue executing requests even if another client
grabs the server.
If impervious is
False,
then the executing client returns to the normal state of being
susceptible to server grabs.
Please refer to the X11 Protocol Encoding document as this document uses conventions established there.
The name of this extension is "XTEST".
FAKE_EVENT_TYPE
2 KeyPress
3 KeyRelease
4 ButtonPress
5 ButtonRelease
6 MotionNotify
NOTE that the above values are defined to be the same as those for the corresponding core protocol event types.
XTestGetVersion
1 CARD8 opcode
1 0 xtest opcode
2 2 request length
1 CARD8 client major version
1 unused
2 CARD16 client minor version
=>
1 1 Reply
1 CARD8 server major version
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 0 reply length
2 CARD16 server minor version
22 unused
XTestCompareCursor
1 CARD8 opcode
1 1 xtest opcode
2 3 request length
4 WINDOW window
4 CURSOR cursor-id
0 None
1 CurrentCursor
=>
1 1 Reply
1 BOOL cursors are the same
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 0 reply length
24 unused
XTestFakeInput
1 CARD8 opcode
1 2 xtest opcode
2 1+(1*8) request length
1 FAKE_EVENT_TYPE fake device event type
1 BYTE detail: button or keycode
2 unused
4 TIME delay (milliseconds)
0 CurrentTime
4 WINDOW root window for MotionNotify
0 None
8 unused
2 INT16 x position for MotionNotify
2 INT16 y position for MotionNotify
8 unused
XTestGrabControl
1 CARD8 opcode
1 3 xtest opcode
2 2 request length
1 BOOL impervious
3 unused