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Invoking SWTBot methods on non-UI threads [message #7788]

Tue, 09 December 2008 12:24

Eclipse User

Hello,

I would like to verify something about SWTBot running in non-UI threads.
Are there any SWTBot methods that need to run in a UI thread, wrapped in
a syncExec call for example?

Or does SWTBot handle all interactions with the UI thread? Then it is
guaranteed that it is safe to call any SWTBot methods on non-UI thread
and not have to worry about hangs/deadlocks related to operations on the
UI thread.

Thanks,
Joe

Re: Invoking SWTBot methods on non-UI threads [message #7852 is a reply to message #7788]

Tue, 09 December 2008 18:51

Eclipse User

The general idea I think is, SWTBot API handles/hides needing to execute a
method on UI thread...the one of the many things I like about this
framework.

Now if you use SWT Widget objects yourself, then you must handle UI thread
stuff. But I love the APIs to execute in UI thread and get results back
from it. Only wish there was a way to handle exceptions in UI thread
runnable...something like SafeRunnable in eclipse. But this is not really
big issue.

Re: Invoking SWTBot methods on non-UI threads [message #7911 is a reply to message #7852]

Tue, 09 December 2008 21:50

Eclipse User

Handling exceptions has been a long pending feature request.

If you can submit a patch, that'll be great.

-- Ketan

On 10/12/08 05:21, Ketan Patel wrote:
> The general idea I think is, SWTBot API handles/hides needing to execute
> a method on UI thread...the one of the many things I like about this
> framework.
> Now if you use SWT Widget objects yourself, then you must handle UI
> thread stuff. But I love the APIs to execute in UI thread and get
> results back from it. Only wish there was a way to handle exceptions in
> UI thread runnable...something like SafeRunnable in eclipse. But this is
> not really big issue.
>

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