RFR: 8345538: Robot.mouseMove doesn't clamp bounds on macOS when trying to move mouse off screen [v11]

Sergey Bylokhov serb at openjdk.org
Fri Feb 28 03:54:54 UTC 2025


On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:59:22 GMT, Alisen Chung <achung at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > The Robot API is just a wrapper around the native API with a basic functionality that works across all platforms. If a native macOS application can move the mouse in a certain way, why should Java be restricted?
> 
> The problem is that different platforms have different behaviors. I think since Java behavior should be consistent across platforms, it should be changed to have it's own implementation rather than just be a wrapper around the native API.

To some extent, yes, but the Robot class is part of AWT, which is a platform-dependent toolkit.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22781#issuecomment-2689654446


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