Ticket #8 (closed defect: fixed)
Improve status bar search
| Reported by: | tvalusek | Owned by: | jteh |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 2009.1 |
| Component: | Core | Version: | development |
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Description (last modified by jteh) (diff)
The search for a status bar, as used by the reportStatusLine script, currently fails in many cases, including Mozilla products. This search should be improved so that it works in as many cases as possible.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by jteh
- Status changed from new to assigned
- Description modified (diff)
- Summary changed from Status bar in Mozilla product: Not found to Improve status bar search
- Version set to trunk
- Milestone set to 0.6
- Owner set to jteh
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by jteh
- Status changed from accepted to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
Implemented in r1875. I went for the second approach above; i.e. using the object at the bottom left in terms of screen coordinates. Please comment if reportStatusLine now fails in any cases where it used to work. Note that this still won't work in applications that do not expose accessible status bars; e.g. Microsoft Office 2000.


There are two possibilities: