uitest: add a shared helper method for selecting text

Change-Id: I15d059ea51ec1e7f0923dab5326a9bb8433e664c
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/47550Tested-by: Jenkins <ci@libreoffice.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Mohrhard <markus.mohrhard@googlemail.com>

uitest/demo_ui/edit.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 from libreoffice.uno.propertyvalue import mkPropertyValues
 
 from uitest.framework import UITestCase
-from uitest.uihelper.common import type_text, get_state_as_dict
+from uitest.uihelper.common import type_text, get_state_as_dict, select_text
 
 import time
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class EditTest(UITestCase):
         type_text(xEdit, "otherChars")
         self.assertEqual("siotherCharsgeName", get_state_as_dict(xEdit)["Text"])
 
-        xEdit.executeAction("SELECT", mkPropertyValues({"FROM": "2", "TO": "12"}))
+        select_text(xEdit, from_pos="2", to="12")
         self.assertEqual("otherChars", get_state_as_dict(xEdit)["SelectedText"])
 
         xAddBtn = xAddNameDlg.getChild("cancel")

uitest/uitest/uihelper/common.py

@@ -16,4 +16,7 @@ def type_text(ui_object, text):
 def select_pos(ui_object, pos):
     ui_object.executeAction("SELECT", mkPropertyValues({"POS": pos}))
 
+def select_text(ui_object, from_pos, to):
+    ui_object.executeAction("SELECT", mkPropertyValues({"FROM": from_pos, "TO": to}))
+
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