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How to identify keystroke [message #24976]

Sun, 01 March 2009 09:54

Eclipse User

Hello,

Is it possible to track keystrokes like SWT.TAB, SWT.CTRL+'S' using
Swtbot.

Regards,
Manju

Re: How to identify keystroke [message #25015 is a reply to message #24976]

Sun, 01 March 2009 20:55

Eclipse User

Err...

What is it that you're trying to do ? Why does swtbot need to track
keystrokes ?

-- Ketan

On 1/3/09 20:24, Manju Mathew wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to track keystrokes like SWT.TAB, SWT.CTRL+'S' using Swtbot.
>
> Regards,
> Manju
>

Re: How to identify keystroke [message #25339 is a reply to message #24976]

Mon, 02 March 2009 10:16

Eclipse User

If you mean to use it and not to record it, I made a helper class for it:
http://rafb.net/p/CcIB3a33.html

Sometimes a event is fired after TAB is pressed, so I need to invoke it in
an automated way.

Re: How to identify keystroke [message #25379 is a reply to message #25339]

Mon, 02 March 2009 22:42

Eclipse User

The editor we are using is a Form based editor.
1) There are many widgets which will be visible only if we scroll the
page. It would have been good if SWTBot can listen to keystokes like TAB,
so as to navigate to different widgets.
2) CTRL+'A' to select the entire content of a text box widget.
3) DEL key to delete an item from a tree viewer.

Above are some of the usecases.

~Manju

Re: How to identify keystroke [message #25420 is a reply to message #25379]

Mon, 02 March 2009 23:37

Eclipse User

This is a classic case for providing support for forms based editors.
There's no support for forms out of the box, and I've not had the time
to do a spike about it either.

On 3/3/09 09:12, Manju Mathew wrote:
> The editor we are using is a Form based editor. 1) There are many
> widgets which will be visible only if we scroll the page. It would have
> been good if SWTBot can listen to keystokes like TAB, so as to navigate
> to different widgets.

bot.button("foo").setFocus();
bot.button("foo").traverse(Traverse.TAB_NEXT);

> 2) CTRL+'A' to select the entire content of a text box widget.

You probably want to just call setText():

bot.textbox().setText("some text");

> 3) DEL key to delete an item from a tree viewer.

There is no API to send keystrokes to any widget. You may use
Display.post(event) with the DEL key to achieve this. If you open a bug
about this someone could provide a nicer API to send keystrokes to widgets.

> Above are some of the usecases.
>
> ~Manju
>

Re: How to identify keystroke [message #25616 is a reply to message #25379]

Tue, 03 March 2009 18:54

Eclipse User

This is pretty easy to do in SWT...you should look at class Hans posted in
this thread

http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=391&gro up=eclipse.swtbot#391

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