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SwtbotEclipseEditor.typeText() fails in Eclipse cocoa [message #701436]

Mon, 25 July 2011 05:40

Radhakrishna Bhat

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Registered: July 2011

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I am trying to use typeText() of SWTBotEclipseEditor in Eclipse 3.7 Cocoa. It fails with following message:

java.awt.AWTException : headless environment.

If I change Keyboard_strategy to SWTKeyboardStrategy , it fails with different message , "Could not post key event".

I have also set Keyboard_layout as MAC_EN_US. No clue whats happening. Any help would be appreciated

Here is my code,

SWTBotPreferences.KEYBOARD_STRATEGY = "org.eclipse.swtbot.swt.finder.keyboard.SWTKeyboardStrategy";
if(SWT.getPlatform().equals("cocoa"))
	SWTBotPreferences.KEYBOARD_LAYOUT = "MAC_EN_US";
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SWTBotEclipseEditor textEditor = currentEditor.toTextEditor();
textEditor.typeText("testme");

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Re: SwtbotEclipseEditor.typeText() fails in Eclipse cocoa [message #702216 is a reply to message #701436]

Tue, 26 July 2011 05:16

Radhakrishna Bhat

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Registered: July 2011

Junior Member

Any clues/hints on how to solve this ?

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Re: SwtbotEclipseEditor.typeText() fails in Eclipse cocoa [message #708865 is a reply to message #701436]

Wed, 03 August 2011 08:32

Radhakrishna Bhat

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Registered: July 2011

Junior Member

Ok, I see that in Cocoa UI thread has to be the main thread to send OS key events. But SWTBot requires test to be started as non-UI thread.

So I switched KeyboardStrategy to MockKeyboardStrategy. But it still doesn't work. No exceptions, just doesn't type anything.

The issue is not only with editors, but any widget which can key events. Text, StyledText etc...

Has anyone successfully used Mock in cocoa?

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Re: SwtbotEclipseEditor.typeText() fails in Eclipse cocoa [message #709824 is a reply to message #701436]

Thu, 04 August 2011 10:54

Radhakrishna Bhat

Messages: 6
Registered: July 2011

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Can somebody please confirm that its not possible in cocoa?

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Re: SwtbotEclipseEditor.typeText() fails in Eclipse cocoa [message #710867 is a reply to message #701436]

Fri, 05 August 2011 14:02

Ketan Padegaonkar

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

This should work, what version of macosx are you on?

-- Ketan

On 7/24/11 10:40 PM, Radhakrishna Bhat wrote:
> I am trying to use typeText() of SWTBotEclipseEditor in Eclipse 3.7
> Cocoa. It fails with following message:
>
> java.awt.AWTException : headless environment.
> If I change Keyboard_strategy to SWTKeyboardStrategy , it fails with
> different message , "Could not post key event".
>
> I have also set Keyboard_layout as MAC_EN_US. No clue whats happening.
> Any help would be appreciated
> Here is my code,
>
>
> SWTBotPreferences.KEYBOARD_STRATEGY =
> "org.eclipse.swtbot.swt.finder.keyboard.SWTKeyboardStrategy";
> if(SWT.getPlatform().equals("cocoa"))
> SWTBotPreferences.KEYBOARD_LAYOUT = "MAC_EN_US";
> ....
> ....
> ....
> SWTBotEclipseEditor textEditor = currentEditor.toTextEditor();
> textEditor.typeText("testme");
>

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