[browsershots-factories] Re: Testing shotfactory under windows

[Marcin Król]

> 1. There is no os.spawnlp under windows so browser command is not enough
> to launch browser. Full path is also needed (and it may be different on
> each factory). For now I've hardcoded my path into windows.py, but thats
> probably not acceptable.

The best workaround here would be to put full path as command in
database for windows browsers. Johann, can you put following commands
for my factory so I could implement and test required code changes?

c:\bin\kmeleon.bat
c:\bin\msie.bat
c:\bin\netscape4.bat
c:\bin\netscape6.bat
c:\bin\netscape7.bat
c:\bin\netscape8.bat

> 2. Page scrolling works only for MSIE here. I'll run some more test
> tomorrow.

For scrolling we need to know class name of browser window. Since this
information differs from browser to browser IMO it should be put into
database. X11 and Darwin may simply ignore this field. Johann, if you
will agree for that here are class names for my browsers:

K-Meleon
KMeleon Browser Window

MSIE
IEFrame

Netscape 4
Afx:400000:b:14be:6:d7f

Netscape 6 and 7
MozillaWindowClass

Netscape 8
NS_AE_WindowClass

> 3. When launching browsers from batch files they leave their DOS
> windows. I'll need to get rid of them.

That was local issue. Ignore it.

> 4. When browser is different than MSIE shotfactory seems to hang after
> launching browser. I need more debugging here to say something more
> about this.

I can't reproduce this behaviour. Now it seems to work.

M.