Question

I have this swing client-server app.

I want to simulate the ‘Ctrl+Shift+f1‘ effect programatically and write to my log4j log file for certain frames that I am loading for debugging purposes. Is there a swing method I call to turn this option on? How do I do this?

Or is there a better way to know the layout while it loads and write to log file?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can simulate key presses quite easily using the Robot class, it has methods to press and release keys.

Robot r = new Robot();
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_CONTROL);
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_SHIFT);
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_F1);
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_F1);
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_SHIFT);
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_CONTROL);