Re: Tweaking default java.awt.Robot settings

[Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@redhat.com>]

Steve McKay☄ wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've noticed that at least some of the tests using java.awt.Robot are
> non-deterministic due to lags is the underlying window system. The
> java.awt.Component.keyPressTest, for example, fails some of the time
> (on linux, windows, linux+wine, ...). It looks like enabling
> autoWaitForIdle (waits for the awt EventQueue to be empty before
> adding new events to the queue), and setting autoDelay (pauses for an
> arbitrary period of time) to some magic number of millis well above
> zero (I use 100) significantly reduces failures. Would anyone object
> to configuring the Robot with settings like this by default?

No objections here, that sounds like a good idea.  When you say "significantly 
reduces failures", does that mean some non-deterministic failures persist with 
the new auto* settings?

Tom