How to perform a mouse click on a certain position

[GerhardH]

Hello all,

I run a local Java application, where I can access almost all GUI
objects via SwingLibrary.

Now I want to perform a click on a table header cell (to sort the
table by the clicked column). But SwingLibrary does not support this.
So I try to implement that in my own Java library.

Also in Jemmy lib I did not find a method that directly supports a
click on a table header cell. But I found a class
org.netbeans.jemmy.drivers.MouseDriver which provides a method
clickMouse. The documentation to that class is rather poor, and my
first trials failed with ...

I assume I will be able to calculate the position of the header cell,
but I need to pass a ComponentOperator object. I assume that I created
the wrong object here.

Can anyone describe me how to use that clickMouse method? How do I
have to create this ComponentOperator? The other parameters seem to be
clear. Is there any trick besides the right ComponentOperator?

Any hint is welcome, thanks in advance.

Best regards
Gerhard

[Janne Härkönen]

Hello Gerhard,

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:25 PM, GerhardH <gerhard....@nsn.com> wrote:
> Now I want to perform a click on a table header cell (to sort the
> table by the clicked column). But SwingLibrary does not support this.

I found out that Jemmy supports getting coordinates of a table header
column via JTableHeaderOperator. I created an enhancement request for
SwingLibrary about this [1]

[1] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-swinglibrary/issues/detail?id=184

thanks,
--J

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[Heil, Gerhard (EXT-Other - FI/Tampere)]

Hello,

I just solved it by implementing my own Java keyword, but only for this special application, so it is only a workaround. I loop through all the components and subcomponents to find the JTableHeader object; from that object I call getLocationOnScreen and from the columns getWidth. So I can calculate the position to click.

With these values I call mouseMove of class java.awt.Robot and then mousePress and mouseRelease.

Using mouseClick from jemmylibs MouseDriver always crashed, with not helpful exception text.

Best regards
Gerhard