Enabling stand-alone Standard Widget Toolkit applications

You must enable stand-alone Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) support before using Rational® Functional Tester to test SWT applications in the application under test.

About this task

To enable an SWT application, you must first enable the JRE in which the application runs, and then modify the Java code of the SWT application.

From Rational Functional Tester version 8.2.2 onwards, Rational Functional Tester automatically enables the environments for functional testing. As a result, you can directly record functional test scripts without enabling components manually. The automatic enablement takes place under certain conditions and has limitations. For more information about the conditions and limitations, see Automatically enabled environment for functional testing.

Note: Enabling 64 bit JRE on 64 bit Linux causes the error "Wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32' for libftsys.so.. Currently, Rational Functional Tester does not support 64 bit JRE on Linux.

Procedure

Enable the JRE in which the SWT application runs. To do this:
1. Click Configure > Configure Applications for Testing from Functional Tester to invoke the Enable Environments dialog box.
2. Click the Java Environments tab.
3. Click Search. The Search for Java Environments dialog box opens.
4. Select the appropriate search mechanism, and click Search.
  When the search is complete, the JREs are listed in the Java Environments list.
5. Select the environment of the SWT application by clicking it on the list.
6. Click Enable and then click Close.
Place the rational_ft_bootstrap.jar file in the classpath. The rational_ft_bootstrap.jar is found in the C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\FunctionalTester\EclipseEnabler\plugins location.
The enableSwtUi() method must be called from the User Interface (UI) thread of the SWT application. Add this code:
```
try 
 { 
 com.rational.test.ft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.enableSwtUi(this); 
 } 
 catch (Throwable e) {}
```
This must be called from the code that first creates the application shell.
Save your changes.

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