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How to open a menu? [message #1786317]

Mon, 30 April 2018 17:33

Lutz Wrage

Messages: 181
Registered: July 2009

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I am investigating to what degree I can use swtbot to automatically create screen shots that can be put in documentation. One thing I'd like to do is show a screenshot with an opened menu from the menu bar or an open context menu. I tried bot.menu("File").click(), but that doesn't seem to do anything. I can use bot.menu(...).click() to execute the command associated with a menu item, but that works without displaying the open menu.
This is on Oxygen.3a, Kubuntu 17.10.
Is there a way to open a menu using swtbot?

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Re: How to open a menu? [message #1786340 is a reply to message #1786317]

Tue, 01 May 2018 16:55

Patrick Tasse

Messages: 84
Registered: July 2009

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Hi Lutz,

I remember experimenting a bit with this when I was reworking the SWTBotMenu implementation. I think I was able to have them visible, but they didn't appear where the menu bar was, or where the context menu was invoked (by SWTBot), they appeared where the mouse cursor was located, so it was interfering with the user (but then again, everything the user does with the mouse can interfere with the running SWTBot test...). So I didn't pursue it further.

Maybe it could be something that can be added to SWTBotPreferences as an optional setting (and have it 'off' by default). I'll see if I have some time to try it out.

Patrick

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