Need to expose custom autopilot APIs for Toolbar and Tabs

[Florian Boucault]

Application developers need to have 3 new APIs added to the ui toolkit's autopilot package to be able to write a lot of their tests reliably:
- toolbar.show()
- toolbar.getButton(action)
- tabs.switch(tab)

When complete, please notify gusch, oSoMoN, nerochiaro and bfiller.

[Tim Peeters (tpeeters)]

I doubt tabs.switch() is needed, because you can easily say tabs.selectedTabIndex = 7

[Tim Peeters (tpeeters)]

there is also tabs.selectedTab but that is readonly. If there are examples where using selectedTabIndex is not sufficient and the tab needs to be set, we can work on that in Tabs.

[Günter Schwann (schwann)]

1.) when switching to the tab - how can I detect that all the animations have finished?
2.) setting the selectedTabIndex does not simulate the user input (that's what autopilot is about)
3.) what we in UI want, is one function call - as the property and or it's object might easily change (again and again and ...), and we don't want to deal with that

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

Note that I started work on an emulator for this for autopilot ubuntusdk app testing. I think it's best handled there. It's sitting in my +junk at the moment, but I'm hoping it could have a permanent home as part of the sdk. Check it out here. It provides the requested features:

lp:~nskaggs/+junk/ubuntusdk_autopilot_emulator

It's currently being used for the core apps project developers as part of the drive towards autopilot tests for all the apps.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-ui-toolkit at revision None, scheduled for release in ubuntu-ui-toolkit, milestone Unknown

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Was reverted because it broke the autopilot tests.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 0.1.46+13.10.20130703.1-0ubuntu1

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