Public API for Robot Class

[Kevin Rushforth]

I didn't see this before I replied with basically the same answer.

-- Kevin


Michael Ennen wrote:
> I have a thread on this list entitled "Proposal For Inclusion of Robot and
> ParametersImpl in the Public API".
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> I have made a webrev of the suggested changes.
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> Kevin is going to look at the changes sometime after RDP 2.
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> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:49 PM, August Nagro <augustnagro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8090763#
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> Regards,
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>> August
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