Re: [platform-swt-dev] Is there a way to send a key event programmatical

[Chris McLaren <Chris_McLaren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are developing an SWT only app,
I'm not sure.. perhaps an SWT person could help you.
If you are developing eclipse plugins,
there are some services within eclipse to help you:

1. If your goal is to invoke a command
itself, you are better off invoking the command directly using our API
because key sequences can be re-assigned by the user. Ctrl-F7 might not
do what you were expecting once the user customizes his key bindings.

The one-line version of this code reads
as follows:
Workbench.getInstance().getCommandSupport().getCommandManager().getCommand("the.command.id").execute(null);

2. If you really want to inject a fake
key stroke into our command processing mechanism, which effectively ends
up calling the above method eventually anyway, we have a method to do this
but I believe it it currently for internal use only. Also, it doesn't pass
the key event through the widget hierarchy so you won't any menu items
'blink'. Please file an enhancement request to platform-ui-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx
if you would like this method made available to you.

Chris.

Yue MA <mayue@xxxxxxxxxx>
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02/19/04 05:24 AM

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I want to invoke the accelerator menu (Ctrl+F7) programmatically
in Eclipse. But I could not find a way to fire such keyEvent in code, Is
there a mechanism in Eclipse can support this now? To simulate a key event?
and will SWT support it in future? I think this kind of mechanism could
make it possible to support the automation UI test of Eclipse.

Can I use notifyListeners(eventType, event) to
do that?

Need your help.

Ma Yue, 
IBM Client Platform, IBM China Software Development Lab