Public API for Robot Class

[Kevin Rushforth]

Yes, there is interest in creating a public JavaFX API for Robot. See 
the following:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2018-January/021212.html

This is a good reminder, mostly to myself, that I need to do a review of 
the proof-of-concept.

-- Kevin


August Nagro wrote:
> Since Java 9 makes com.sun.glass.ui.Robot unavailable, is there any
> interest in making it public? There seems to be a bug for it here:
>
> https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8090763#
>
> The TestFX developers also made a proposal (not sure if they shared on this
> list):
> https://gist.github.com/brcolow/26370db6cab0355186d4a1d13b30fc19
> https://github.com/TestFX/Robot
>
> In addition to their notes, I'd also suggest that keyPress and keyRelease
> be handled globally like in AWT Robot. Developers could then press Ctrl +
> Tab to change applications, for example.
>
> Regards,
>
> August
>