[platform-swt-dev] direct-driving SWT with java.awt.Robot, was: ordering

[Thomas L Roche <tlroche@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Wilson Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:26:23 -0400
> "robots" can be/are being built on top of SWT in its current form

Make that "are being used," by the eclipse-ui folks. This just in:

Abbot

http://sourceforge.net/projects/abbot

and therefore abbotforswt (seeking open-source-release approval), is
essentially high-level, highly-usable API for generating native events
with java.awt.Robot. j.a.R is a required part of J2SE (and is therefore
found in any compliant JDK, e.g. Sun, IBM, and the J2SE J9) since 1.3.

It is possible to "direct-drive" j.a.R, and the eclipse-ui folks are
now doing this, since they needed something yesterday ($%&^#@! lawyers
:-). See

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37704#c3

TIA, Tom Roche, Rational Studio Model2 Tooling, abbotforswt admin