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From: "Steve McKay☄" <smckay@google.com>
To: "Thomas Fitzsimmons" <fitzsim@redhat.com>
Cc: mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Tweaking default java.awt.Robot settings
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f2ee4520709251114l2c59aecfxbdfe553217fd0113@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F94F1F.8000103@redhat.com>

Thomas,

I think David's suggestion was better, so I'll work that up instead of
the autoDelay changes I proposed.

--steve

On 9/25/07, Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
>


-- 
Steve McKay <smckay@google.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-24 20:31 Steve McKay☄
2007-09-24 20:50 ` David Herron
2007-09-24 21:22   ` Steve McKay☄
2007-09-24 21:41     ` David Herron
2007-09-25 18:33       ` Lillian Angel
2007-09-25 19:13         ` Steve McKay☄
2007-09-25 19:27           ` Lillian Angel
2007-09-25 19:37             ` Steve McKay☄
2007-09-25 19:45               ` Lillian Angel
2007-09-25 19:27         ` David Herron
2007-09-25 18:33   ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2007-09-25 18:57     ` Steve McKay☄
2007-09-25 19:58       ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2007-09-25 20:28         ` Steve McKay☄
2007-10-04  0:43           ` Steve McKay☄
2007-10-04 13:04             ` Lillian Angel
2007-09-25 19:24     ` David Herron
2007-09-25 18:10 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2007-09-25 18:14   ` Steve McKay☄ [this message]

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