Description Ketan Padegaonkar 2008-12-28 00:07:30 EST

Description copied from http://swtbot.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139:

It would be useful to be able to traverse controls using the keyboard with the bot API. A common use case is to enter text into a field and tab to set focus to the next field. (I need this for testing traversal ordering.)

To accommodate this, I played with an added a method like this:

public void typeKey(final char key) {
log.debug(MessageFormat.format(?Inserting text:{0} into text {1}?, key, this));

setFocus();
notifyKeyboardEvent(SWT.NONE, key);
}

and calling it like this:

text.typeKey(SWT.TAB);

Unfortunately, this doesn?t do the trick.

I also experimented with synthesizing a traverse event and sending it directly to the widget like this:

Event event = new Event();
event.type = SWT.Traverse;
event.time = (int) System.currentTimeMillis();
event.widget = projectName.widget;
text.notify(SWT.Traverse, event);

but no dice. (I didn?t entirely expect it to work but it was worth a try anyway.)

Any ideas?