Why are disabled elements seen as not displayed ?

[lragnarsson]

selendroid/selendroid-server/src/main/java/io/selendroid/server/model/AndroidNativeElement.java

Line 94 in 11419e8

boolean enabled = getView().isEnabled();

Is there a reason to include the enabled attribute in this check? Disabled edit_texts for example will return false but they are clearly "displayed" on the screen.

Thank you.

[lukeis]

in general for the native components if it's not enabled it's not rendered on the screen. You've found the exception to the rule :) (I also don't know how many other exceptions there are to this)

We'll likely need to check if the View is a particular type that could be displayed and then not check the enabled flag.

[lukeis]

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#isEnabled()
"The interpretation of the enabled state varies by subclass."

This doesn't help :(

[lragnarsson]

Hmm, is there any cases where the enabled attribute is the only attribute deciding the visibility of a view? If not then the check might be redundant.

[lragnarsson]

I don't think the enabled attribute ever determines the visibility of a view. I also think that the

(View.VISIBLE == getView().getVisibility())

part on line 100 is unnecessary as it is already checked in the isShown method