TestFX 4 Selecting a value from ChoiceBox / Menu

Question

I'm scratching my head here trying to get my TestFX robot to click on a Menu and then a MenuItem.

None of the above classes derive from Node so I cannot use fxRobot.clickOn(Node node).

Does anyone else have an idea of how to accomplish this? Besides simply using a TextMatcher, which searches through the whole scope.

Example of MenuBar with a menu:

<MenuBar fx:id="mainMenuBar">
        <menus>
            <Menu mnemonicParsing="false" style="-fx-font-weight: bold;" text="MainMenu">
                <items>
                    <MenuItem mnemonicParsing="false" style="-fx-font-weight: normal;" text="About" />
                    <MenuItem mnemonicParsing="false" style="-fx-font-weight: normal;" text="Exit" />
                </items>
            </Menu>

How would I achieve a robot clicking on the top Menu (preferrably by the visible text of the menu) and the the menuItem inside (also preferrably selected by the visual text)

Example of ChoiceBox:

<ChoiceBox fx:id="myChoices" />

It's items are dynamically populated from my controller:

@FXML private ChoiceBox myChoices;

@FXML
public void initialize() {
    List<String> items = ItemsRepo.getItems();
    myChoices.setItems(FXCollections.observableArrayList(items))
}

I could first click the choiceBox via it's fx:id. But how would I then select one of it's items? Preferably from the items visible text. The items texts could interfer with other texts inside the application. So I want to make sure I click one of the choicebox items, not some other text.

Regards

add code here.i ll tell you how to do that – Gaali Prabhakar Aug 19 '16 at 08:44 — Gaali Prabhakar, Aug 19 '16 at 08:44
@Prabhakargaali I've added some sample code – Robin Jonsson Aug 19 '16 at 08:52 — Robin Jonsson, Aug 19 '16 at 08:52

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '17 at 18:24

I had to fill a PopUp form in my test case which had some ChoiceBox input fields. The items of the ChoiceBox were visible on the Scene below the PopUp so find the item by its text was not possible (the robot usually clicked on another occurrence of the text). I achieved this with the FxRobotInterface as below.

clickOn("#choiceBox");
type(KeyCode.DOWN);
type(KeyCode.ENTER);

Like this the first item of the ChoiceBox was selected. You cannot perfectly control which item you select with this solution as the items might change, but it worked for my case.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 04 '16 at 14:32

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If you have the scene you can use lookup on the MenuBar, which is a Node within the scene.

MenuBar menuBar = scene.lookup("#menuBar");

You need the "#" in front of the identifier. Once you have the MenuBar you can iterate through the menus and the menu items in each menu.

answered Nov 04 '16 at 14:32

Fiona Buchanan

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Thanks Fiona, however, when I have gotten my `MenuBar` by id, and looped through it's `MenuItem`s, how would i click on the one I want? Like I mentioned in my original question, FXRobot can only click on items derrived from `Node`, and `MenuItem` isn't considered a `Node`. I could just use a `TextMatcher` to click on it, but i would want to limit that matchers scope to the active `Menu` (and not search for ANY visible text) – Robin Jonsson Nov 07 '16 at 13:16

TestFX 4 Selecting a value from ChoiceBox / Menu

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