Description Tim Kaiser 2011-01-31 10:38:24 EST

While trying to do a direct edit,
not only the text field ready for direct editing
is considered but also other text fields which
are parented by the shell of the active workbench page.

Call stack fragment:
org.eclipse.swtbot.swt.finder.SWTBot(org.eclipse.swtbot.swt.finder.SWTBotFactory).widgets(org.hamcrest.Matcher<T>, org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget) line: 268	
org.eclipse.swtbot.swt.finder.SWTBot(org.eclipse.swtbot.swt.finder.SWTBotFactory).widgets(org.hamcrest.Matcher<T>) line: 277	
org.eclipse.swtbot.eclipse.gef.finder.widgets.SWTBotGefViewer.directEditType(java.lang.String) line: 277	
org.eclipse.swtbot.eclipse.gef.finder.widgets.SWTBotGefEditor.directEditType(java.lang.String) line: 178	

I modified the following method to make it work:

public void directEditType(String text) throws WidgetNotFoundException {

		/*
		 * we use 'bot()' and not 'bot' to scope the widget search to the editor. Otherwise if another widget of the
		 * same type is present in the workspace and is found first, the code after will fail.
		 */

		/* by using SWTBot#widgets() we get the added benefit of an implicit wait condition. */
		List<? extends Text> controls = bot().widgets(widgetOfType(Text.class), canvas.widget);
		if (controls.size() == 1) {
			final Text textControl = controls.get(0);
			canvas.typeText(textControl, text);
		} else {
			throw new WidgetNotFoundException(String.format(
					"Expected to find one text control, but found %s.  Is the editor in direct-edit mode?", controls.size()));
		}
	}

I think it is important to narrow the search of Text widgets to the supplied canvas:
List<? extends Text> controls = bot().widgets(widgetOfType(Text.class), canvas.widget);

Otherwise additional text fields are found and the direct edit does not work.

Best, Tim