RFR: 8345538: Robot.mouseMove doesn't clamp bounds on macOS when trying to move mouse off screen [v13]

Harshitha Onkar honkar at openjdk.org
Tue May 27 17:31:05 UTC 2025


On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:13:12 GMT, Alisen Chung <achung at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Currently on macOS when mouseMove is given an offscreen coordinate to move the mouse to, mouseMove will physically clamp to the edge of the screen, but if you try to grab the mouse location immediately after by using MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation() you will get the value of the offscreen point.
>> 
>> Windows and linux do this clamping and coordinate handling for us, but new distributions may not necessarily handle clamping the same way, so Robot should be checking for clamping rather than delegating it to native.
>> 
>> This fix updates shared code to cache the screen bounds and adds a check to not exceed the bounds in mouseMove. The caching is done in the Robot constructor, so if the screen bounds changes the constructor must be called again to update to the new bounds.
>
> Alisen Chung has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 17 commits:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into 8345538
>  - move clamping code into macos
>  - use absolute distance to choose correct screen for offscreen clamping
>  - helper function
>  - grab screen data on mouseMove
>  - fix bounds
>  - peer.mouseMove
>  - fix implementation
>  - robot update
>  - Revert "robot multimonitor fix"
>    
>    This reverts commit 5734165881a66dc48d5a9f19e02bf63fac57cdc9.
>  - ... and 7 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/8b16897b...e0a5c872

test/jdk/java/awt/Robot/MouseMoveOffScreen.java line 52:

> 50:         for (int i = 0; i < gs.length; i++) {
> 51:             r[i] = gs[i].getDefaultConfiguration().getBounds();
> 52:         }

@alisenchung 
I would suggest logging screen bounds (provides better debug info for anyone running the test)

Suggestion:

        for (int i = 0; i < gs.length; i++) {
            r[i] = gs[i].getDefaultConfiguration().getBounds();
            System.out.println("Screen: "+ gs[i].getIDstring() + "  Bounds: " + r[i]);
        }

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22781#discussion_r2109774604


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