I do understand the lifecycle of a view. I'm not sure I understand what you want SWTBot to do.
As far as SWTBot is concerned, it works merely on what is visible. It does not care much about anything else. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Guillaume Bourel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Ketan, > > If SWTBot is not throwing a WidgetNotFoundException when a view is not > open, there's probably a bug. > > I agree with this, but the view is already "open" it is just not visible : > just after launching the application the two views are in the same folder : > the first is visible (on top) but the second is hidden. > "As a human being", when I just click on the tab of the second view, the RCP > framework "automatically" calls createViewPart and the view is shown. > to reproduce this behavior with SwtBot I need to : > 1°/ Manually create the view > 2°/ Call SWTEclipseBot.view to select the view > > I'm not sure if this manual creation is really the right thing, because it > creates a different behavior between my "real" application and my test > application : > what I'm afraid of is : > if I manually force the creation of the view (in my test case), a behavior > which needs this view (initialised) will work fine. > But in the real application if I don't clic on the view, it will not be > initialised and the same behavior will not work. > > > Ketan Padegaonkar a écrit : > > SWTBot works in a way which is similar to what a human being does. If > you search for a view which is not open SWTBot throws a > WidgetNotFoundException, which is a right failure, since the view is > not really open, although it exists. > If SWTBot is not throwing a WidgetNotFoundException when a view is not > open, there's probably a bug. > So what you're doing is the right thing, activate the view in whatever > way you find convinient -- invoke API directly or click through the > menus. > Cheers, > Ketan Padegaonkar > I blog... therefore I am... http://ketan.padegaonkar.name > http://swtbot.org/ - a functional testing tool for SWT/Eclipse > On 6/10/08, Guillaume Bourel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I tried to use SWTEclipseBot.view(String label) to select a view which > has been created at launch time but was never made visible (my > perspective contains two views within the same folder). > But if I just load the view (with IWorkbenchPage.showView("myViewID", > null, IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_CREATE); ) before calling > SWTEclipseBot.view(String label) everything works fine. > Maybe this check could be done in > SWTBotView.findWidget(IWorkbenchPartReference view, Finder finder) > when ((WorkbenchPartReference) view).getPane().getControl() returns a > null control. > Or does this null return value means something else ? > Cheers, > Guillaume. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > SWTBot-users mailing list > SWTBot-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/swtbot-users > http://swtbot.org/ - a functional testing tool for SWT/Eclipse > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > SWTBot-users mailing list > SWTBot-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/swtbot-users > http://swtbot.org/ - a functional testing tool for SWT/Eclipse > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ SWTBot-users mailing list SWTBot-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/swtbot-users http://swtbot.org/ - a functional testing tool for SWT/Eclipse
