RFR: 8129827: [TEST_BUG] Test java/awt/Robot/RobotWheelTest/RobotWheelTest.java fails

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:02:27 GMT, Alexander Zvegintsev <azvegint at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> test/jdk/java/awt/Robot/RobotWheelTest/RobotWheelTest.java line 47:
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>>> 45: 
>>> 46:     private static AtomicInteger wheelRotation = new AtomicInteger();
>>> 47:     private static int wheelSign = Platform.isOSX() ? -1 : 1;
>> 
>> Is this the scroll rotation direction?
>> If it is, then as you can see in  JDK-8282716 review comments, this direction can be configured so we cannot rely on this it will always be -1 for macos...
>> Maybe you can do the same as it is done there to check at runtime what is the scroll direction configured?
>
> It is the scroll rotation direction.
> 
> Just checked, enabling/disabling `Scroll direction: Natural` for mouse or trackpad does not affect robot scrolling, so the test passes regardless of these settings.
> 
> Besides that verification of `getWheelRotation()` method itself is significant part of the test, so I doubt we can use it to detect scroll direction.

Ok. Thanks for the clarification.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8305