ATK GlobalRects giving nonsense locations

One thing I noticed is that all widgets which are not currently visible on screen have a wrong globalRect. What is worse is that I didn't find any way to tell whether a widget is currently visible or not.
I'll try and see if we can at least return a well-known invalid rect in that case (maybe (-1,-1,0,0)) instead of completely random numbers.

I linked a branch which might solve the issue, but "autopilot vis" doesn't seem to exist anymore. Is there any replacement?

Hi Alberto,

autopilot vis is now in a separate package - you need to install python-autopilot-vis.

The current test in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ken-vandine/gnome-control-center-signon/autopilot/view/head:/tests/autopilot/gnome_control_center_signon/test_control_center_signon.py doesn't access globalRect. However, I read the code of atk_component_get_extents(), and it indeed just returns without changing its input variables if it's not a valid component. So the attached branch makes sense.

I was going to replicate that in a test, but the current logic makes widgets not have a globalRect property at all until they become visible. I'll try to hide them again and ensure that globalRect has a sensible value.

I cannot reproduce this. I tried with a widget and a GtkDialog, and in both cases the widget does not have a globalRect property until it becomes visible; while being visible it has a valid rect, and after it gets hidden the globalRect stays at the old (valid) values. The latter is probalby a bit questionable, but as the "visible" property is false, one shouldn't pay attention to it.

Is that still an issue with current autopilot-gtk? Ken?

Fix committed into lp:autopilot-gtk at revision 45, scheduled for release in autopilot-gtk, milestone Unknown

This bug was fixed in the package autopilot-gtk - 1.3+13.10.20130627-0ubuntu1

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autopilot-gtk (1.3+13.10.20130627-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Add make test/ctest integration, and run tests during package build.
  * Add integration test suite (LP: #1083612). (LP: #1083612)

  [ Alberto Mardegan ]
  * Initialize rect fields to -1 This makes the globalRect variable
    return negative values (for some reason, not -1 but -2147483648)
    when the rectangle is offscreen. (LP: #1176234)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 46
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:01:15 +0000