From eede49939921c0f2741a4ac3a5b0d71d8b83f96b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso@lyx.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 23:14:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allowed to set the default typing delay via environment
 variable. Improved documentation of usage.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@37523 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
---
 development/autotests/README             | 13 +++++++++++++
 development/autotests/hello-world-in.txt |  3 +++
 development/autotests/keytest.py         |  5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/development/autotests/README b/development/autotests/README
index 6f437cdc7c..62fa6c27a4 100644
--- a/development/autotests/README
+++ b/development/autotests/README
@@ -37,6 +37,19 @@ as argument to the run-tests.sh script, e.g.:
 For failed tests you get a folder with the logs that help you identify
 the problem.
 
+Despite the efforts to avoid it, sometimes a test fails simply because
+the key presses provided to the process are someway lost due to slow
+hardware, slow window manager, too beautiful and animated desktop,...
+When this happens, the tests should be run with a higher delay among
+key presses. The default of 100 milliseconds can be changed by setting
+the XVKBD_DELAY environment variable.
+
+The standard xvkbd available on your system may be used to run the
+tests. However, a custom xvkbd may optionally be used that forbids the
+testing framework to type into non-LyX windows and may mitigate the
+issue described right above. This option can be activated by defining
+the XVKBD_HACKED environment variable to any value.
+
 
 SYNTAX
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/development/autotests/hello-world-in.txt b/development/autotests/hello-world-in.txt
index cda460b7f9..95b872b770 100644
--- a/development/autotests/hello-world-in.txt
+++ b/development/autotests/hello-world-in.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
 #     \[Tab] ........ sends a Tab character
 #     \[Return] ..... sends a Return
 #
+# KD: n
+#   Changes the delay among typed charactes to n milliseconds.
+#
 #
 # This example instructs LyX to type "Hello World", then exports it as
 # LaTeX, and verifies that the typed characters are indeed present in the
diff --git a/development/autotests/keytest.py b/development/autotests/keytest.py
index 138342f365..c247c01c54 100755
--- a/development/autotests/keytest.py
+++ b/development/autotests/keytest.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ print 'Beginning keytest.py'
 
 FNULL = open('/dev/null', 'w')
 
-def_delay = '60'
 key_delay = ''
 
 class CommandSource:
@@ -262,6 +261,10 @@ if xvkbd_exe is None:
 
 xvkbd_hacked = os.environ.get('XVKBD_HACKED') != None
 
+def_delay = os.environ.get('XVKBD_DELAY')
+if def_delay is None:
+    def_delay = '100'
+
 file_new_command = os.environ.get('FILE_NEW_COMMAND')
 if file_new_command is None:
     file_new_command = "\Afn"