<AWT Dev> RFR: 8226806 [macOS 10.14] Methods of Java Robot should be called from appropriate thread

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

Hi Sergey,

Fix looks ok to me. BTW, you told it does not manifest in 10.15 but only 
10.14. Can you confirm the present fix works in 10.15 too?
Regards
Prasanta
On 13-Mar-20 5:44 AM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> Any volunteers to review?
> This could be a reason of test instability.
>
> On 3/5/20 12:52 am, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>> Hello.
>> Please review the fix for jdk/client.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8226806
>> Fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8226806/webrev.00
>>
>> On macOS 10.14(and not on 10.13/10.15) some of the Robot
>> operations produce the warnings in the error log which
>> suggests that the used API should be called on Appkit thread only.
>>
>> Some related information can be found here:
>>      https://indiestack.com/2018/08/let-it-rip/
>>
>> The root cause in the case of Robot is the generation of
>> keyboard events. To fix that, I have moved these methods to the
>> Appkit, even mouse events to prevent races between event generations.
>>
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