Hello! I maintain a test harness for JavaFX applications:
https://www.github.com/io7m-com/xoanon I expose an interface that uses the javafx.scene.robot.Robot interface internally, but I expose a slightly higher level API that allows for (amongst other things) typing text as strings on components rather than sending individual key codes. The problem I immediately run into is that KeyCodes are keyboard layout specific, and there doesn't appear to be any way to detect what keyboard layout is in use. If I, for example, send the KeyCode for the `@` symbol, I'll actually get `"` on some keyboard layouts. This can cause some types of tests to fail, even though the code is correct. Consider a test where an email address is typed into a text field, and then the form containing the field is checked to see if the text field accepted/rejected the text as being a valid email address. On some keyboard layouts, a test that sends the string "some...@example.com" will fail because what ends up in the text field is actually "someone"example.com". I provide a workaround for this: At the start of the test suite run, xoanon will send every KeyCode to a text field one at a time and see what character appeared in the text field as a result. It then builds a mapping between characters to KeyCodes, and it can then do the translations as necessary when running the rest of the test suite: https://github.com/io7m-com/xoanon?tab=readme-ov-file#keymap-generation Unfortunately, this is still rather flaky. This often seems to fail more or less at random for reasons that aren't clear to me. Is there some way the Robot interface could be extended to allow for typing strings? Failing that, is there some way JavaFX could advertise the underlying keyboard map? I feel like some underlying component must know the information I'm trying to infer, but it doesn't seem to be exposed anywhere that I've been able to find. -- Mark Raynsford | https://www.io7m.com
