Selenium and GXT CheckboxListView

I recently updated my application to use a menu hooked up to a button in which I display a GXT CheckboxListView of stamp issues. The general idea is that when defining my stamp if there are flaws (I tend to avoid collecting these) I can check-off the flaws in a drop-down like list. I added some selenium tests to capture the correct functionality, and came a across a few interesting points I thought I'd share.

1. GXT does not appear to let you set a constant on the checkbox, such that can you tie it back to an enumerated list easily. This meant I had to navigate to the text of interest (localized display value of the enum) and then proceed back in the DOM to get the input field such as the following:
   
   

   MENU_LOCATOR + //td[.='" + display_str + "']/../td/input[contains(@class,'x-view-item-checkbox')]

2. For closing the menu, the best approach I found was to use the "Escape" key on the menu itself:
   
   

   selenium.keyDown(PICKER_LOCATOR, "\u0027");
   selenium.keyPress(PICKER_LOCATOR, "\u0027");
   selenium.keyUp(PICKER_LOCATOR, "\u0027");

3. Setting the value of the checkbox turned out to be more than simply using click(). In order for the click to be registered with the underlying GXT models I also needed to emit a DOMActivate event on the checkbox:
   
   

   selenium.check(getCheckboxLocator(str));
   selenium.fireEvent(getCheckboxLocator(str),"DOMActivate");

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Version Info
GXT: 2.1.0
GWT: 2.0.0

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