Support of Standart Dialogs (Select Color,...)

[a.bitsche]

Standart Windows Dialogs like 'Select Color' and 'Search Folder' are not supported.

Is the support of this Dialogs planned / in work?
Is a workaround available?

[Phil Quitslund]

Native dialogs are not supported and present a challenge. We've been considering providing helper classes to manipulate them but haven't released any yet. In the meantime, you might be able to manipulate them manually by programming keystrokes (that is: invoke the dialog, wait a bit for it to appear, and navigate it with keystrokes). Ultimately this is unsatisfying for sure, but it may work as a stopgap.

Feel free to submit a feature request to: wintest-support@instantiations.com

[a.bitsche]

As soon as a native Dialog is opened, the keystrokes doesn't work.

This code doesn't affect the dialog

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Thread.sleep(2000); // Wait for the dialog
ui.keyClick(SWT.CR);

nore does this

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abbot.swt.Robot r = new abbot.swt.Robot();
r.keyPress(SWT.CR);
Thread.sleep(5);
r.keyRelease(SWT.CR);

It seems to me as if the programm is paused till the nativ dialog is closed.
Because the keystroke is executed after the dialog is closed.

[Phil Quitslund]

You're absolutely right! Sorry to send you down a dead-end (but thanks for reporting it). It appears that native dialogs block the test thread. We'll have to do a bit of digging to see if/how we might support this.

In the meantime, are there any workarounds for your use case? That is, can you accomplish the same actions programmatically? I know this isn't totally satisfying but it might get you unblocked.

Thanks for submitting a feature request BTW. We'll look into it and be in touch.