[platform-swt-dev] Re: swt.Robot?

[Tom Roche <tlroche@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Henrik Vendelbo" <hvendelbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:20:30
> How about an interface to native GUI event queue. Which would allow
> you to write test cases manipulating SWT applications as well as
> native applications. A number of automation queries would probably
> be to information only maintained by SWT, but that could be served
> by special message (event) handlers implemented in the platform
> dependent layer.

That sounds very useful--is there one?

IIRC current Java GUI-automation tools (see

http://www.superlinksoftware.com/cgi-bin/jugwiki.pl?TestingGUIs

) work either by

a stuffing events in java.awt.EventQueue

or

b wrapping j.a.Robot

so the interface you describe could probably best serve SWT developers
if it was API-compatible with j.a.EventQueue--then we could presumably
just "plug it into" existing tooling.