How to retain focus on the eclipse plugin

[kishan.mv]

Hi,

I am using WindowTester for our product Flex Builder. In the test i will be launching Flex application from our Flex application. Once the Flex application is launched focus will be on the Flex application and Flex builder looses the focus. Because of this our test fails with UnableToFindActiveShellException. Is there anyway we can retain the focus on the Flex builder (Where WindowTester test will be running) even after launching the Flex application?

Thanks,
Kishan

[Phil Quitslund]

You can do this by forcing focus back to Flex Builder once focus is lost. We are working on an API condition for handling this (com.windowtester.runtime.swt.condition.eclipse.WorkbenchHasFocusCondition). In fact our next beta will have a fixed version of it in place. Once it is there you can write something like this:

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ui.ensureThat(new WorkbenchHasFocusCondition());

In the meantime, you can use the existing version of the condition this way:

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new WorkbenchHasFocusCondition().handle(ui);

to force focus.

Is this something that happens at predictable times?