Help using somone's documentation

[davetheant]

Hello everyone. I was wondering how to import someone else's documentation (the one in particular is located here: Robot (Abbot Documentation)). How would I do this? Thanks in advance.

[goldest]

What do you exactly mean about "importing documentation" ?

Do you want to get all the javadoc API stored on that webpage? or something else? Would you please elaborate a bit?

Goldest

[davetheant]

I just want to use the methods listed at the link in my code.

[goldest]

Abbot seems to be a separate framework all together for specific GUI needs.

If you want to use that, you can download the source code zip file from here, that contains the source and required library jar files to make the things work.

You can put that jar files in your class path or from where you can refer to them and you are good to go.

Goldest

[davetheant]

Thanks a lot, now one last question: I'm unsure as to what I am supposed to do with the contents of this zip file. Is there a specific file I am supposed to take out for the Robot class? Or do I just dump everything in my JDK/JRE folder?

[goldest]

That zip file would most probably contain a directory named "lib". In that directory you will find many jar files. These jar files actually contain the class files of the source code i.e. the features you would like to use.

So what you have to do is, either put all those jar files in your class path or check out the jar file contents and place only the jar files that you need in your class path.

For e.g. there is one abbot.jar in the lib folder. Inside its directory structure it contains the Robot.class file with structure abbot\tester\Robot.class. So if you want to use Robot class features, put the abbot.jar in your class path. Same for other things...

Hope you are clear enough,

Goldest

[davetheant]

Thanks a lot. Now I know this is a noob question but where is the Classpath I'm supposed to put it in? I ran "echo %CLASSPATH%" in cmd and it directed me to a zip file in my JRE. There are some other jar's in that folder, so I put abbot.jar with it, but the compiler tells me abbot does not exist as a package.

[goldest]

Do you use an IDE like eclipse?

If that's the case, you can simply right click on your project and go to Build Path -> Configure Build Path -> Library and say "Add External JARs". Add your abbot.jar here from your file system.

In your java code, simply import the abbot structure and you are done.

This is what I tried just now,

import abbot.tester.Robot;

public class AbbotTest {
	public static void main(String args[]) {
		Robot r = new Robot();
		System.out.println("Robot Successful");
	}
}

And the output is Robot Successful. It works dude! :D

Hope that's clear now,

Goldest

[davetheant]

I got it thanks. We can say your rep = rep++; lol

edit: It seems that since java.awt.Robot and abbot.tester.Robot end with the same name, they both can not be imported. Is this true?

[goldest]

In case if you use command prompt,

Suppose that your abbot.jar is in D:\Downloads\abbot-1.0.2\lib\abbot.jar And the code file is in D:\dell\Robot\AbbotTest.java directory.

In that case you need to provide the classpath to your abbot.jar file on the command line.

Compile by,

D:\dell\Robot>javac -cp D:\Downloads\abbot-1.0.2\lib\abbot.jar AbbotTest.java

Run by,

D:\dell\Robot>java -cp D:\Downloads\abbot-1.0.2\lib\abbot.jar;. AbbotTest

Which would produce,

Robot Successful

Hope that's clear,

Goldest

[goldest]

I got it thanks. We can say your rep = rep++; lol

LOL :D

edit: It seems that since java.awt.Robot and abbot.tester.Robot end with the same name, they both can not be imported. Is this true?

In that case you can use the other Robot this way to avoid naming collision,

java.awt.Robot r1 = new java.awt.Robot();

Hope thats clear,

Goldest

[davetheant]

I got everything worked out. The problem was that I had to use java.awt.Robot because I imported abbot's Robot first. Thanks again.

[goldest]

You are Welcome.

Nice to know that everything got resolved. All well, that ends well. :D

Goldest