enterText: Cannot enter numeric value

[palbaret]

Hi All,

I want to type a character string inside a text field for example: ui.enterText("slwinpatsp1");

but instead of the character "1", character "&" occurs. I have a French keyboard where the 2 characters "1" and "&" are on the same key.

What is the workaround?
thanks and regards,

Patrick

[Phil Quitslund]

Hi Patrick,

We're currently investigating international keyboard support.

Could you submit a bug report to:

wintest-support@instantiations.com

This will help us track your issue.

In the meantime, the abbot tester classes that ship with windowtester might help.

Here's what I'd try:

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Text text = (Text)ui.click("text");  //click the text and cache it
new abbot.tester.swt.TextTester().actionEnterText("slwinpatsp1"); //use the abbot tester to set it


Why should this work? Behind the scenes, abbot is setting the text directly on the widget:

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widget.setText(text);


This bypasses our keyStroke event posting which is the culprit in this case.

Hope this helps! (And please follow up with a bug report either way.)

Thanks!

-phil

[palbaret]

Thank you , it is working fine even with Chinese characters.

Patrick

[Phil Quitslund]

Great!

As I said, we are working on a proper fix (we'd like to enter text with keystrokes rather than just calling setText on the widget), but it's good to know this gets you unblocked in the meantime.