On 2009-12-31, (rkumar) Sentinel <sentinel.2001 / gmx.com> wrote: > Screen's "C-a h" creates a hardcopy *sans* attributes. > But i guess that's a start - I guess one can't have everything. > If i can find a way to get part coverage, that would help. It's at least a start. > Unfortunately there's so much that's interactive. Clicking, typing text, > scrolling and then typing text. Hmm. > Perhaps with a screen hardcopy, I can at least see that all test screens > load and display the basic widgets correctly positioned with starting > data. Possibly. You could do hardcopies basically every "frame", too. e.g., send the first letter of a password, verify that the hardcopy now shows the *, or whatever. You could probably also hack screen to write a second hardcopy file which is a grid of attributes in some notation, so you could compare the pair of files. > btw, is there something i am missing in your statement "which is > reliable at ***obeying curses commands***". Essential issues: 1. There is no guarantee that two correct sets of curses commands which produce the same exact final screen output do so by sending the same sequence of characters. There may be many possible ways to, say, clear all the characters on a given line. Depending on non-obvious externalities, or current cursor location, you might see anything from a sequence of spaces to a special line-clear command... Curses is specifically designed to "optimize" these things, meaning that the sequence of characters produced is not necessarily consistent for a given output. 2. Related to the above, curses can and will overwrite things. So imagine that curses were to send: foo^H^H^Hbar You probably want to treat this precisely the same as just sending "bar". So basically, you want a thing which interprets the terminal escape sequences curses generates and tells you what the final output looks like. Happily, screen does that (at least for vt100). -s -- Copyright 2009, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nospam / seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated!