[17:44] <balloons> elopio, I need to pick your brain for a minute. So I want to use the textfield emulator, but the app has defined it's own object that simply contains a textfield. How can I still use the helper?
[17:45] <elopio> balloons: if autopilot sees the name of the extended class, you can also extend TextField on python. Take a look at the clock, we are doing that.
[17:45] <elopio> balloons: if autopilot sees TextField even if it's extended, then you won't have to do anything. This is the most common case.
[17:45] <balloons> elopio, thanks I'll take a look
[17:46] <balloons> elopio, no the object is indeed the custom name
[17:46] <balloons> but the base qml is still textfield
[17:46] <elopio> balloons: yes, on the clock, I don't remember the name of the component.
[17:46] <elopio> it's like TextFieldWithDots
[17:46] <elopio> or something like that.
[17:46] <balloons> elopio, ahh
[17:46] <balloons> class LabelDots(toolkit_emulators.TextField):
[17:46] <balloons>     """Autopilot helper for the LabelDots component."""
[17:47] <balloons> brillant
[17:47] <balloons> the trouble is I'm digging myself in deeper to redoing the setup for this test :-)
[17:48] <elopio> that's it. kudos to the clever autopilot developers that let us play with the weird inheritance in python and in QML.
[17:48] <elopio> balloons: redoing setups, I like that.
[17:48] <balloons> elopio, I'm treading carefully
[17:48] <balloons> It's just hard to see custom code not using the helpers
[17:49] <balloons> elopio, oO.. can we not handle TextArea's?
[17:50] <elopio> balloons: TextAreas I think that need a separate helper.
[17:50] <balloons> elopio, it should be able to inherit much of the textfield helper
[17:50] <balloons> one of my inputs is a textarea...
[17:50] <balloons> see, this is why we don't travel down the rabbit hole :-)
[17:51] <elopio> balloons: in QML, text area is not an extended text field.
[17:51] <elopio> but yes, we can do many of the things through composition. Shouldn't be hard.
[17:51] <elopio> balloons: you can convince la_juyis to implement that one :)
[17:52] <balloons> elopio, ohh, I was going to do it.. hehe.. Julia is even better
[17:53] <elopio> balloons: even better if you two pair-program.
[17:53] <balloons> I'm going to cheat and do the same with textarea for this hahah
[17:53] <elopio> :(
[17:56] <balloons> elopio, indeed if you inherit the textfield emulator it works fine
[17:56] <balloons> so it's cheating for my needs, but I think I can ship it
[17:57] <balloons> we'll still do a proper textarea helper, and I'll comment and link to a bug for it
[18:00] <balloons> elopio, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1327354
[18:00] <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1327354 in Ubuntu UI Toolkit "TextArea needs autopilot helper" [Undecided,New]
[18:00] <balloons> see, I'm not so mean!
[18:17] <elopio> cgoldberg: do you know of any changes on autopilot to the pid property of the app proxy object?