How to access Clipboard while running SWTBot tests?
Following code throws Invalid thread access.
Clipboard clipBoard = new Clipboard(SWTUtils.display());
Object object = clipBoard.getContents(TextTransfer.getInstance());
The above code is working when run in the UI Thread. Is this the only way?
How to access the clipboard in the SwtBot thread?
Like with any other access of UI elements in SWTBot, you need to delegate the Clipboard access to the UI thread.
If there isn't a ClipboardBot in SWTBot already, you can do this yourself like so:
final Object[] object = { null }
display.syncExec( new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Clipboard clipBoard = new Clipboard( display );
object[ 0 ] = clipBoard.getContents( TextTransfer.getInstance() );
clipboard.dispose();
}
} );
If you would like to use some of the SWTBot infrastructure to accomplish this, there is also a post about how to extend SWTBot.