Test::Without::Gtk2Things - disable selected Gtk2 methods for testing

 # perl -MTest::Without::Gtk2Things=insert_with_values foo.t

 # or
 use Test::Without::Gtk2Things 'insert_with_values';

This module removes or disables selected features from Gtk2 in order to simulate an older version (or other restrictions). It can be used for development or testing to check code which adapts itself to available features or which is meant to run on older Gtk. There's only a couple of "without" things as yet.

Obviously the best way to test application code on older Gtk is to run it on an older Gtk, but making a full environment for that can be difficult.

From the command line use a -M module load (per perlrun) for a program or test script,

    perl -MTest::Without::Gtk2Things=insert_with_values foo.t

Or the same through Test::Harness in a MakeMaker test run

    HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES="-MTest::Without::Gtk2Things=blank_cursor" \
      make test

A test script can do the same with a use,

    use Test::Without::Gtk2Things 'insert_with_values';

Or an equivalent explicit import,

    require Test::Without::Gtk2Things;
    Test::Without::Gtk2Things->import('insert_with_values');

In each case generally the "withouts" should be established before loading application code in case it checks features at BEGIN time.

Currently Test::Without::Gtk2Things loads Gtk2 if not already loaded, but don't rely on that. A mangle-after-load instead might be good, if it could be done reliably.

verbose

Have Test::Without::Gtk2Things print some diagnostic messages to STDERR. For example,

    perl -MTest::Without::Gtk2Things=verbose,blank_cursor foo.t

    Test::Without::Gtk2Things -- without CursorType blank-cursor, per Gtk before 2.16
    ...

blank_cursor

Remove blank-cursor from the Gtk2::Gdk::CursorType enumeration. Currently this means removing from Glib::Type->list_values, and making Gtk2::Gdk::Cursor->new and new_for_display throw an error if asked for that type.

Object properties of type Gtk2::Gdk::CursorType are are not affected (they can still be set to blank-cursor), but perhaps that could be done in the future. Blank cursors within Gtk itself are unaffected.

blank-cursor is new in Gtk 2.16. In earlier versions an invisible cursor can be made by applications with a no-pixels-set bitmap as described by gdk_cursor_new in such earlier versions. (See Gtk2::Ex::WidgetCursor for some help with that.)

builder

Remove Gtk2::Builder and the Gtk2::Buildable interface, as per Gtk before 2.12.

The Buildable interface is removed by removing the class and by mangling UNIVERSAL::isa() to pretend nothing is a Buildable. Actual package @ISA lists are not changed currently. This should mean Buildable still works in C code, but not from Perl (neither currently loaded nor later loaded classes).

In a Perl widget implementation it can be fairly easy to support Gtk pre-2.12 by omitting the Buildable interface if not available.

    use Glib::Object::Subclass
      'Gtk2::DrawingArea',
      interfaces => [ # Buildable new in Gtk 2.12, omit otherwise
                      Gtk2::Widget->isa('Gtk2::Buildable')
                      ? ('Gtk2::Buildable')
                      : (),
      ];

cell_layout_get_cells

Remove the get_cells method from the Gtk2::CellLayout interface. That interface method is new in Gtk 2.12 and removal affects all widget classes implementing that interface. In earlier Gtk versions Gtk2::CellView and Gtk2::TreeViewColumn have individual get_cell_renderers methods. Those methods are unaffected by this without.

draw_as_radio

Remove the Gtk2::CheckMenuItem and Gtk2::ToggleAction draw-as-radio property and corresponding explicit get/set methods.

draw-as-radio on those two classes is new in Gtk 2.4. For prior versions it was only a builtin drawing feature of Gtk2::RadioMenuItem, or some such. Simply skipping it may be good enough in those prior versions.

gdkdisplay

Remove Gtk2::Gdk::Display and Gtk2::Gdk::Screen classes, and the various get_display, set_screen, etc widget methods, as would be the case in Gtk 2.0.x.

In Gtk 2.0.x there was a single implicit screen and display, and some methods for querying their attributes (see Gtk2::Gdk). Most widget code doesn't need to do much with a screen or display object, and it can be reasonably easy to support 2.0.x by checking for a set_screen method etc if say putting a dialog on the same screen as its originating main window.

insert_with_values

Remove the insert_with_values method from Gtk2::ListStore and Gtk2::TreeStore. That method is new in Gtk 2.6. In earlier versions separate insert and set calls are necessary.

menuitem_label_property

Remove from Gtk2::MenuItem label and use-underline properties and corresponding explicit get_label, set_use_underline etc methods.

label and use-underline are new in Gtk 2.16. (For prior versions new_with_label or new_with_mnemonic create and set a child label widget.)

widget_tooltip

Remove from Gtk2::Widget base tooltip support new in Gtk 2.12. This means the tooltip-text, tooltip-markup and has-tooltip properties, their direct get/set methods such as $widget->set_tooltip_text, and the query-tooltip signal.

For code supporting both earlier and later than 2.12 it may be enough to just skip the tooltip setups for the earlier versions. See set_property_maybe in Glib::Ex::ObjectBits for some help with that.

It's not possible to no Test::Without::Gtk2Things to restore removed things. Once removed they're gone for the whole program run.

Gtk2, Test::Without::Module, Test::Weaken::Gtk2

Glib::Ex::ObjectBits set_property_maybe() for skipping non-existent properties.

Copyright 2010, 2011 Kevin Ryde

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