Do we need to start selenium server to use Selenium2Library in RIDE pls?

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Originally submitted to Google Code by scottyan... on 28 Dec 2011

Environment Info:

1. Python26 Jython2.5.1 WindowsXP
2. we use RF with Seleniumlibrary2.5.7 + selenium-server2.0 fluently.

____Question1_____ Do we need to start selenium server to use Selenium2Library in RIDE pls?

____Trial Steps_____

1. put the Selenium2Library folder to this path: C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages
2. create a new project in RIDE and import the library Selenium2Library to test suite
3. write test case: the keyword "open browser" has been hightlighted with bold blue style and the tooltip shows the keyword if from selenium2library. open browser xxx xxx

   4. no matter we started the Selenum-Server2.0 or not, it reported the same error as following:

   FAIL: No keyword with name 'Open Browser' found.

20111228 16:07:26.315 ERROR Invalid syntax in file 'd:\ride\wu3\suites\Test1\Array.tsv' in table 'Setting': Importing test library 'Selenium2Library' failed: ImportError: No module named api PYTHONPATH: ['C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\Selenium2Library\lib\decorator-3.3.2', 'C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\Selenium2Library\lib\selenium-2.8.1\py', 'C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\Selenium2Library\lib\decorator-3.3.2', 'C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\Selenium2Library\lib\selenium-2.8.1\py', 'C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages', 'C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\robot\libraries', 'C:\jython2.5.1\Lib', 'classpath', 'pyclasspath/', 'C:\jython2.5.1\Lib\site-packages', 'D:\RIDE\wu3\lib', '.'] CLASSPATH: C:\jython2.5.1\jython.jar;C:\Python26\Lib; Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\importing.py", line 94, in _import import(name) File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\Selenium2Libraryinit.py", line 8, in <module> from keywords import * File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\Selenium2Library\keywordsinit.py", line 1, in <module> from _logging import _LoggingKeywords File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\Selenium2Library\keywords_logging.py", line 4, in <module>

from robot.api import logger

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Originally submitted to Google Code by scottyan... on 8 Jan 2012

Also, it showed us this error info by using the official demo(login tests) without starting selenium server.

Import Selenium2Library module failed. Please make sure you have Selenium2Library installed.

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Originally submitted to Google Code by @pekkaklarck on 10 Jan 2012

First of all, this tracker is for the old SeleniumLibrary. Selenium2Library has its own tracker in its project pages on GitHub. Second, at least with SeleniumLibrary you always need to have the server running. I don't know do you always need it with Selenium2Library.