Component-less click method

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-I'm extending Fest-Swing to add support for a custom Swing table.  I want
the ability to tell fest-swing robot do a click "here" another word, click
at point p without the translation relative to a component center performed
in RobotEventGenerator.moveMouse() method.  
-In particular in my driver class I'm already able to figure out the Point
object of where I want to click on so having a component-less click()
method is very nice feature.   

Right now I modified RobotEventGenerator.moveMouse() method as follows:

public void moveMouse(Component c, int x, int y) {
    try {
        if ( null == c)
        {
            robot.mouseMove(x, y);
        }
        else
        {
            Point point = locationOnScreenOf(c);
            if (point == null) return;
            point.translate(x, y);
            robot.mouseMove(point.x, point.y);
        }

    } catch (IllegalComponentStateException e) {}
  }

In my custom driver code I can do a component-less click:  
   Point p <-- custom swing table returns p
   robot.click(null, p, mouseButton,  times);

Original issue reported on code.google.com by viet....@gmail.com on 27 May 2008 at 3:50

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Original comment by Alex.Rui...@gmail.com on 27 May 2008 at 4:27

• Changed title: [fest-swing] Component-less click method
• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Milestone-Release1.0, OpSys-All, Priority-High, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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We cannot implement this enhancenment. We have two mechanisms for generating 
user 
inputs AWT Robot (RobotEventGenerator) and posting AWT events 
(AWTEventGenerator). 
Both generators should provide exactly the same functionality (users can change 
the 
event generation mechanism and their tests should always work.)

The problem is that we cannot change RobotEventGenerator only. In the case of 
AWTEventGenerator, we cannot simulate moving the mouse pointer to an absolute 
coordinate. To post a AWT event we need a reference to a GUI component.

We can only move the mouse pointer to an absolute position and without a 
Component 
using the AWT Robot.

If you know a way to simulate mouse movements to an absolute position, please 
let us 
know. Another solution would be to have your fixture deal with relative 
coordinates, 
instead of absolute ones.

You can try to get a relative position to your custom table this way:

Point relative = SwingUtilities.convertPoint(null, point, customTable);

For now, we are closing this enhancement request.

Regards,
-Yvonne

Original comment by wanghy1...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2008 at 3:52

• Changed state: WontFix

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Set the module as a label, instead of being part of the title.

Original comment by Alex.Rui...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2008 at 1:58

• Changed title: Component-less click method
• Added labels: Module-fest-swing

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Reopening this issue. Now that we have removed AWT mode, we can have a 
component-less
click method.

Original comment by Alex.Rui...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2008 at 6:48

• Changed state: Accepted

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r2110 and r2111

Original comment by Alex.Rui...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2008 at 4:35

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More changes at r2116

Original comment by Alex.Rui...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2008 at 12:44

• Changed state: Fixed