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aszlig
8be00dc71d
nixos/test-driver: Make tesseract OCR optional.
By default this is now enabled, and it has to be explicitely enabled
using "enableOCR = true". If it is set to false, any usage of
getScreenText or waitForText will fail with an error suggesting to pass
enableOCR.

This should get rid of the rather large dependency on tesseract which
we don't need for most tests.

Note, that I'm using system("type -P") here to check whether tesseract
is in PATH. I know it's a bashism but we already have other bashisms
within the test scripts and we also run it with bash, so IMHO it's not a
problem here.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2015-05-22 07:21:58 +02:00
aszlig
8bd025a75e
nixos/test-driver: Add new waitForText function.
As promised in the previous commit, this can be used similarly to
$machine->waitForWindow, where you supply a regular expression and it's
retrying OCR until the regexp matches.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2015-05-21 19:55:21 +02:00
aszlig
235c2228ca
nixos/test-driver: Add new getScreenText function.
Basically, this creates a screenshot and throws tesseract at it to
recognize the characters from the screenshot. In order to produce a
result that is well enough, we're using lanczos scaling and scale the
image up to 400% of its original size.

This provides the base functionality for a new Machine method which will
be called waitForText. I originally had that idea long ago when writing
the VM tests for VirtualBox and Chromium, but thought it would be
disproportionate to the case.

The downside however is that VM tests now depend on tesseract, but given
the average runtime of our tests it really shouldn't have a too big
impact and it's only a runtime dependency after all.

Another issue is that the OCR process takes quite some time to finish,
but IMHO it's better (as in more deterministic) than to rely on sleep().

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2015-05-21 19:55:21 +02:00
Mikey Ariel
a099ca4505 Chunk NixOS manual
[Squashed commits to make git blame etc. more likely to work. -ED]
2014-08-26 19:03:49 +02:00