| How to ues the EclipseSpy view on an Application? [message #1011602] |
Tue, 19 February 2013 16:59  |
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I am not sure of the "nuts and bolts" of using the SWTBot EclipseSpy view. I can get it to open, and it appears to give me information about the IDE as a move the cursor over the Eclipse IDE.
I would like to know how to use it to discover widgets on the RCP app I am trying to test. If I run the RCP App, and if I hover over Widgets in the RCP app, I get no results showing up in the EclipseSpy View. It seems that knowing about the widgets of the app I want to test is more important than the widgets in the Eclipse IDE.
Do I need to include the EclipseSpy as a dependency for my app under test? Do I need to embed something in the app to make it EclipseSpy aware?
Just a quick "How-To" for button pushes on using the EclipseSpy View would be helpful. I am using Indigo (3.7) and one of the latest SWTBot downloads.
My simple SWTBot test seems to work fine, but I need to know how to use the EclipseSpy View.
Thanks,
Herb Miller
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| Re: How to ues the EclipseSpy view on an Application? [message #1012024 is a reply to message #1011940] |
Wed, 20 February 2013 13:06  |
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On 02/20/2013 03:47 PM, Herb Miller wrote:
> My problem is that I do not know how to use EclipseSpy. If someone can
> tell me how to use it, I would be grateful. Surely it is not just for
> hovering over the Eclipse IDE?
I've never even looked at the EclipseSpy code but I guess it listen to
mouse move and get the control under the mouse and change the content
when it's a new control.
If it works with the IDE, I think it could work with any RCP
application: just install the plugin in your RCP app, open the
EclipseSpy view, and it should be all. If it's not working, it's most
likely a bug.
> For years, Visual Studio has had a tool called something-Spy (not sure
> of the name). You could use this tool to see the activity of almost any
> GUI widget that was displayed on the desktop. I assumed that EclipseSpy
> has this functionality, and I just do not know how to use it correctly.
The EclipseSpy is only intended to SWTBot UI, and most likely only
"spies on" the application that hosts it.
HTH
--
Mickael Istria
JBoss, by Red Hat
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| Re: How to ues the EclipseSpy view on an Application? [message #1014508 is a reply to message #1012863] |
Mon, 25 February 2013 19:17 |
| Eclipse User |
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Thanks. I will try to get the EclipseSpy into my project so I can use to find some of the escoteric GUI combinations added by the programmers - like a Form with a Section with a formatted Text box tied to a toolbar with toolitems and menus and menuitems made up of formatted text boxes.
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