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+ Usage Instructions for Monkey NetSurf 13 March 2011
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ This document provides usage instructions for the Monkey version of
+ NetSurf.
+
+ Monkey NetSurf has been tested on Ubuntu.
+
+Overview
+========
+
+ What it is
+ ----------
+
+ The NetSurf Monkey front end is a developer debug tool used to
+ test how the core interacts with the user interface. It allows
+ the developers to profile NetSurf and to interact with the core
+ directly as though the developer were a front end.
+
+ What it is not
+ --------------
+
+ Monkey is not a tool for building web-crawling robots or indeed
+ anything other than a debug tool for the NetSurf developers.
+
+ How to interact with nsmonkey
+ -----------------------------
+
+ In brief, monkey will produce tagged output on stdout and expect
+ commands on stdin. Windows are numbered and for the most part
+ tokens are space separated. In some cases (e.g. title or status)
+ the final element on the output line is a string which might have
+ spaces embedded within it. As such, output from nsmonkey should be
+ parsed a token at a time, so that when such a string is encountered,
+ the parser can stop splitting and return the rest.
+
+ Top level tags for nsmonkey
+ ---------------------------
+
+ GENERIC
+
+ WARN, ERROR, DIE
+
+ WINDOW
+
+ DOWNLOAD_WINDOW
+
+ SSLCERT
+
+ 401LOGIN
+
+ In the below, %something% indicates a substitution made by Monkey.
+
+ %url% will be a URL
+ %id% will be an opaque ID
+ %n% will be a number
+ %bool% will be TRUE or FALSE
+ %str% is a string and will only ever be at the end of an output line.
+
+ Warnings, errors etc
+ --------------------
+
+ Warnings (tagged WARN) come from the NetSurf core.
+ Errors (tagged ERROR) tend to come from Monkey's parsers
+ Death (tagged DIE) comes from the core and kills Monkey dead.
+
+ Generic messages
+ ----------------
+
+ GENERIC STARTED
+ Monkey has started and is ready for commands
+ GENERIC CLOSING_DOWN
+ Monkey has been told to shut down and is doing so
+ GENERIC FINISHED
+ Monkey has finished and will now exit
+ GENERIC LAUNCH URL %url%
+ The core asked monkey to launch the given URL
+ GENERIC THUMBNAIL URL %url%
+ The core asked monkey to thumbnail a content without
+ a window.
+ GENERIC POLL BLOCKING
+ Monkey reached a point where it could sleep waiting for
+ commands or scheduled timeouts. No fetches nor redraws
+ were pending.
+
+ Window messages
+ ---------------
+
+ WINDOW NEW WIN %id% FOR %id% CLONE %id% NEWTAB %bool%
+ The core asked Monkey to open a new window. The IDs for 'FOR' and
+ 'CLONE' are core window IDs, the WIN id is a Monkey window ID.
+
+ WINDOW SIZE WIN %id% WIDTH %num% HEIGHT %num%
+ The window specified has been set to the shown width and height.
+
+ WINDOW DESTROY WIN %id%
+ The core has instructed Monkey to destroy the named window.
+
+ WINDOW TITLE WIN %id% STR %str%
+ The core supplied a titlebar title for the given window.
+
+ WINDOW REDRAW WIN %id%
+ The core asked that Monkey redraw the given window.
+
+ WINDOW GET_DIMENSIONS WIN %id% WIDTH %num% HEIGHT %num%
+ The core asked Monkey what the dimensions of the window are.
+ Monkey has to respond immediately and returned the supplied width
+ and height values to the core.
+
+ WINDOW NEW_CONTENT WIN %id%
+ The core has informed Monkey that the named window has a new
+ content object.
+
+ WINDOW NEW_ICON WIN %id%
+ The core has informed Monkey that the named window hsa a new
+ icon (favicon) available.
+
+ WINDOW START_THROBBER WIN %id%
+ The core asked Monkey to start the throbber for the named
+ window. This indicates to the user that the window is busy.
+
+ WINDOW STOP_THROBBER WIN %id%
+ The core asked Monkey to stop the throbber for the named
+ window. This indicates to the user that the window is finished.
+
+ WINDOW SET_SCROLL WIN %id% X %num% Y %num%
+ The core asked Monkey to set the named window's scroll offsets
+ to the given X and Y position.
+
+ WINDOW UPDATE_BOX WIN %id% X %num% Y %num% WIDTH %num% HEIGHT %num%
+ The core asked Monkey to redraw the given portion of the content
+ display. Note these coordinates refer to the content, not the
+ viewport which Monkey is simulating.
+
+ WINDOW UPDATE_EXTENT WIN %id% WIDTH %num% HEIGHT %num%
+ The core has told us that the content in the given window has a
+ total width and height as shown. This allows us (along with the
+ window's width and height) to know the scroll limits.
+
+ WINDOW SET_STATUS WIN %id% STR %str%
+ The core has told us that the given window needs its status bar
+ updating with the given message.
+
+ WINDOW SET_POINTER WIN %id% POINTER %id%
+ The core has told us to update the mouse pointer for the given
+ window to the given pointer ID.
+
+ WINDOW SET_SCALE WIN %id% SCALE %num%
+ The core has asked us to scale the given window by the given scale
+ factor.
+
+ WINDOW SET_URL WIN %id% URL %url%
+ The core has informed us that the given window's URL bar needs
+ updating to the given url.
+
+ WINDOW GET_SCROLL WIN %id% X %num% Y %num%
+ The core asked Monkey for the scroll offsets. Monkey returned the
+ numbers shown for the window named.
+
+ WINDOW SCROLL_START WIN %id%
+ The core asked Monkey to scroll the named window to the top/left.
+
+ WINDOW POSITION_FRAME WIN %id% X0 %num% Y0 %num% X1 %num% Y1 %num%
+ The core asked Monkey to position the named window as a frame at
+ the given coordinates of its parent.
+
+ WINDOW SCROLL_VISIBLE WIN %id% X0 %num% Y0 %num% X1 %num% Y1 %num%
+ The core asked Monkey to scroll the named window until the
+ indicated box is visible.
+
+ WINDOW PLACE_CARET WIN %id% X %num% Y %num% HEIGHT %num%
+ The core asked Monkey to render a caret in the named window at the
+ indicated position with the indicated height.
+
+ WINDOW REMOVE_CARET WIN %id%
+ The core asked Monkey to remove any caret in the named window.
+
+ WINDOW SCROLL_START WIN %id% X0 %num% Y0 %num% X1 %num% Y1 %num%
+ The core asked Monkey to scroll the named window to the start of
+ the given box.
+
+ WINDOW SELECT_MENU WIN %id%
+ The core asked Monkey to produce a selection menu for the named
+ window.
+
+ WINDOW SAVE_LINK WIN %id% URL %url% TITLE %str%
+ The core asked Monkey to save a link from the given window with
+ the given URL and anchor title.
+
+ WINDOW THUMBNAIL WIN %id% URL %url%
+ The core asked Monkey to render a thumbnail for the given window
+ which is currently at the given URL.
+
+ Download window messages
+ ------------------------
+
+ DOWNLOAD_WINDOW CREATE DWIN %id% WIN %id%
+ The core asked Monkey to create a download window owned by the
+ given browser window.
+
+ DOWNLOAD_WINDOW DATA DWIN %id% SIZE %num% DATA %str%
+ The core asked Monkey to update the named download window with
+ the given byte size and data string.
+
+ DOWNLOAD_WINDOW ERROR DWIN %id% ERROR %str%
+ The core asked Monkey to update the named download window with
+ the given error message.
+
+ DOWNLOAD_WINDOW DONE DWIN %id%
+ The core asked Monkey to destroy the named download window.
+
+ SSL Certificate messages
+ ------------------------
+
+ SSLCERT VERIFY CERT %id% URL %url%
+ The core asked Monkey to say whether or not a given SSL
+ certificate is OK.
+
+ 401 Login messages
+ ------------------
+
+ 401LOGIN OPEN M4 %id% URL %url% REALM %str%
+ The core asked Monkey to ask for identification for the named
+ realm at the given URL.
+