It does make sense, and someone has raised this issue before.
It would be great if you could create a patch against the latest in
trunk and attach it to bugzilla.
-- Ketan
On 01-Jul-08, at 3:19 PM, Hans Schwaebli wrote:
> In Swing for every GUI component one can set a name and identify it
> by that name uniquely.
>
> This can be used for automated GUI tests to find a specific
> component by an invariable name, which makes tests more stable
> concerning GUI changes. Another advantage of this is that the tests
> are independant of the language used for the UI. In test
> specifications these unique constant names can be used, which could
> be another advantage.
>
> In SWT the equivalent seems to be
> org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.getData("key") and
> org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.setData("key", "value").
>
> Curious as I am I looked into the source of Abbot SWT. There is a
> abbot.swt.finder.matchers.NameMatcher class. It allows to find a
> widget by its name.
>
> I would contribute such a NameMatcher for SWTBot if you like the
> idea and if you agree.
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