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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

/*
 * UI Automation (for testing tools) snippet: post key events
 *
 * For a list of all SWT example snippets see
 * http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
 * 
 * @since 3.0
 */
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Event;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text;

public class KeyEventPost {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final Display display = new Display();
        final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
        final Text text = new Text(shell, SWT.BORDER);
        text.setSize(text.computeSize(150, SWT.DEFAULT));
        shell.pack();
        shell.open();
        new Thread() {
            public void run() {
                String string = "Love the method.";
                for (int i = 0; i < string.length(); i++) {
                    char ch = string.charAt(i);
                    boolean shift = Character.isUpperCase(ch);
                    ch = Character.toLowerCase(ch);
                    if (shift) {
                        Event event = new Event();
                        event.type = SWT.KeyDown;
                        event.keyCode = SWT.SHIFT;
                        display.post(event);
                    }
                    Event event = new Event();
                    event.type = SWT.KeyDown;
                    event.character = ch;
                    display.post(event);
                    try {
                        Thread.sleep(10);
                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    }
                    event.type = SWT.KeyUp;
                    display.post(event);
                    try {
                        Thread.sleep(100);
                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    }
                    if (shift) {
                        event = new Event();
                        event.type = SWT.KeyUp;
                        event.keyCode = SWT.SHIFT;
                        display.post(event);
                    }
                }
            }
        }.start();
        while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
            if (!display.readAndDispatch())
                display.sleep();
        }
        display.dispose();
    }
}