Re: [Wtr-general] New Watir User Guide (beta)

2007-05-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: Eh. I had the opposite experience. It made me go read about what a Module is. They why did you say it's magic anyway? ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

Re: [Wtr-general] Error message with a dropdown

2007-05-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
Ken wrote: ItemShopping.rb:40: undefined method `Select' for #Watir::SelectList:0x2d64ca8 (NoMethodError) Again, here is the line it is referring to: ie.select_list(:name, frameMain:_ctl5:_ctl1:SearchType).Select(Supplier SKU) I noticed that when i use the Dev tool to ensure that the

Re: [Wtr-general] New Watir User Guide (beta)

2007-05-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: I just think ie = IE.new is nicer than ie = Watir::IE.new If we are going to tell everyone to do 'include Watir', then we could make things easier by putting just this line of code in watir.rb and have it execute automatically when the 'require watir' happens. Or

Re: [Wtr-general] Error message with a dropdown

2007-05-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
Ken wrote: Here is the HTML for the object: TD SELECT class=StdDropDownList id=frameMain__ctl5__ctl1_SearchType name=frameMain:_ctl5:_ctl1:SearchType OPTION value=KeywordKeyword/OPTION OPTION value=SupplierSKUSupplier SKU/OPTION OPTION value=SupplierNameSupplier Name/OPTION OPTION

Re: [Wtr-general] New Watir User Guide (beta)

2007-05-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: From my perspective, I always start out by requiring and including watir, because I'd rather paste it into the top of a script once than have to type Watir:: several times below. I was planning to say that I'd love to have watir automatically included whenever I require

Re: [Wtr-general] :beforeText and :afterText

2007-05-17 Thread Bret Pettichord
Željko Filipin wrote: On 5/16/07, *Jeff Fry* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any input from folks who either use or have tried unsuccessfully to use these two? I have tried to use it, but it did not work for me. As far as I am concerned, it can be removed.

Re: [Wtr-general] Controlling IE popups with stock Watir: simplest way?

2007-05-17 Thread Bret Pettichord
Brian Marick wrote: I'll check it out. The only advantage over using popen is that you don't have to have an executable ruby file (and know where to find it). You can just require a watcher file and do the work without any implicit or explicit exec. I seem to remember seeing a

Re: [Wtr-general] Error message with a dropdown

2007-05-17 Thread Bret Pettichord
Ken wrote: I just downloaded Watir a week ago so I assume its the latest and greatest. No, there is no refresh when the box is selected. You are using 1.4.1. You can find more recent versions here: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Development+Builds

Re: [Wtr-general] how to manipulate this?

2007-05-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Paul Rogers wrote: ie.div(:class , 'wiki').ole_object.invoke('innerText' , hi Chris) My guess would be ie.div(:class , 'wiki').ole_object.innerText = hi Chris ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org

Re: [Wtr-general] Supporting IE 7

2007-05-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Paul Rogers wrote: I think its important to support both at the moment, as Im sure many people still havent upgraded. If you or someone else had a patch for http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-116, that would help. ___ Wtr-general mailing list

Re: [Wtr-general] fireWatir guess. Re: how to manipulate this?

2007-05-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: Answering my own question, I'll bet that s/innerText/textContent/ would work. (Thanks Selenium reference page!) But I haven't tried it yet. There's another good candidate for refactoring. Could you say more words about what you are suggesting.

Re: [Wtr-general] fireWatir guess. Re: how to manipulate this?

2007-05-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: Quoting from the Selenium reference: storeText ( locator, variableName ) Gets the text of an element. This works for any element that contains text. This command uses either the textContent (Mozilla-like browsers) or the innerText (IE-like browsers) of the element,

Re: [Wtr-general] ole_object syntax?

2007-05-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: Paul, Bret, I tried both syntax examples and got errors on both. Do you see anything wrong with ie.frame(:index,1).div(:class, 'wiki').ole_object.innerText = McChris was here or ie.frame(:index,1).div(:class, 'wiki').ole_object.invoke(innerText,McChris was here) I'm

Re: [Wtr-general] fireWatir guess. Re: how to manipulate this?

2007-05-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: Neither Watir nor Selenium nor FireWatir currently provides commands for munging text directly. To me this sounds like something that is outside the scope of a testing tool. Can you elaborate on the scenario that makes you want to do this? Is it testing related?

Re: [Wtr-general] verifying contents of text_field

2007-05-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
alan wrote: I'm doing a test where I fill in a field with : ie.text_field(:name,track_note_0).set(testtext) it then saves this entry with a: ie.button(:value, save).click and then logs out. I need to have the script go back to the page and make sure that field still has that text in it,

Re: [Wtr-general] Controlling IE popups with stock Watir: simplest way?

2007-05-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Brian, Thanks for your detailed report. As you no doubt have realized, Watir's support (if it can be called that) for popups is none too good: awkward and often unreliable. So your efforts are much appreciated. Personally, I haven't had to deal with popups in my scripts, mostly finding ways to

Re: [Wtr-general] FireWatir not finding buttons by id

2007-05-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Charley Baker wrote: It's a curious bug, just saw the same thing. A bug/feature, works more than it should. :) Chris is right we should definitely spend more time with Angrez, Prema and the Firewatir community. I'm getting slammed by requests for multiple browser tests and starting to

Re: [Wtr-general] 'method_missing': document (WIN32OLERuntimeError)

2007-05-15 Thread Bret Pettichord
this on list, but had no replies. It happens always when I do goto (www.hotmail.com) Is there any known bug in 1.5 latest gem? Any directions so that I can give more inputs to debug problem. Watir Version: watir-1.5.1.1158. Thanks and Regards, Manish Bret Pettichord wrote: aidy

[Wtr-general] Watir Development Gem 1.5.1.1166 Released

2007-05-14 Thread Bret Pettichord
A new gem is ready for download. This is the latest pull from Subversion source, tagged at 1.5.1.1166. Changes in this release include: * The wait method was completely rewritten. This should fix various errors seen in 1.5.1.1165 and 1.5.1.1158. * Removed the spinner.

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir Development Gem 1.5.1.1166 Released

2007-05-14 Thread Bret Pettichord
Paul Rogers wrote: will you be providing some call back mechanism so I am able to add my own spinner when the page is loading? I didn't realize that anyone was still using this. The main reason that i removed it was simply because we did not have good unit tests for the wait code and

Re: [Wtr-general] Use of attribute_value() under WATIR 1.5.1.1145

2007-05-14 Thread Bret Pettichord
Derek Wong wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write some tests that test various attribute keys in DIV elements for particular values. The DIV in question has a class attribute but even though I know the attribute is defined, invoking attribute_value(class) always returns nil. I've tried this on

Re: [Wtr-general] OT: find min/max values in an array of floats

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: I can think of a couple of ways to do this, but they're all painful in one way or another. Ruby being Ruby, I wonder if there's some nifty shortcut. Given floats = [] floats 3.456 floats 1.53 floats 5.123 show that the least element of the array is 1.53 and the

Re: [Wtr-general] RDOC - Help determining what needs documentation

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Jeff Fry wrote: I'm left hoping we can find another way for me to learn what's been added but not documented in v1.5. So Brett, Charley, Paul, or others involved in building v1.5...if you were going to update the rdoc, how would you know what to edit? If you were going to be making the

Re: [Wtr-general] RDOC - Help determining what needs documentation

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Paul Rogers wrote: In my opionion, the rdocs are really dificult to read right now. I think if I was picking up watir now and looking at the rdocs for the first time, Id be a bit disheartened. I would make sure that only relevant ( to the end user ) methods/classes/modules are in the

Re: [Wtr-general] Community involvement with Watir

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Helder Ribeiro wrote: I think a section of recipes, where people could post clear and well commented code on how to do specific tasks, would also be very useful, perhaps even some non-testing stuff like automating airline ticket searching or emptying large gmail labels. It could start with

Re: [Wtr-general] The Plan for Watir

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Thanks for your detailed replies. Comments inline. Christopher Rasch wrote: Well, ultimately, I want to be able to handle any popup that the browser throws up: attach to it, manipulate it, etc. My understanding is that better modal dialog support is one of the new features of Watir 1.5.

Re: [Wtr-general] Ataaching to windows on slow network connections

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Dhrubojyoti Biswas wrote: I am eager to know if there is a better way to do this? Use Watir 1.5. This problem is fixed there. You can look at the repository on openqa if you want details. Bret ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org

Re: [Wtr-general] Community involvement with Watir

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Željko Filipin wrote: Watir user guide can have enterprise look, but I would also like to create one version with cartoon characters. I am sure there are lots of creative people here and I hope they will show their creativity. If you would not like to see cartoon characters in Watir user

Re: [Wtr-general] Sample Training Presentation and Exercises posted on Wiki

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chris McMahon wrote: The Scripting101 course could use some enhancement. I'm just sayin'... http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=104 I am actually in the process of rewriting this using the Depot/Rails test application. Bret ___ Wtr-general

Re: [Wtr-general] The Plan for Watir

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Christopher Rasch wrote: Both of these tickets relate to improving the existing modal web dialog support (showModalDialog). At this point, I no longer have plans to work on them and no one else has volunteered to work on them. Probably the biggest problem with our current support for

Re: [Wtr-general] The Plan for Watir

2007-05-09 Thread Bret Pettichord
Paul Rogers wrote: Id like the winclicker code to disappear and be replaced by a full windows testing library ( How you getting along with that Chris ? ). Enough people seem to want it. I think a lot of people would like to see that. I certainly would. But last i looked Chris's project

Re: [Wtr-general] Community involvement with Watir

2007-05-08 Thread Bret Pettichord
Christopher Rasch wrote: Thanks! How should we contribute to the User Guide? It doesn't appear to be user editable: http://wtr.rubyforge.org/watir_user_guide.html This HTML file is stored in our SVN repository. I think one question Zeljko needs to address is what form he wants it to

Re: [Wtr-general] The Plan for Watir

2007-05-08 Thread Bret Pettichord
Christopher Rasch wrote: I'm looking forward to ... better support for modal_dialogs on the supported platforms. Nothing is planned in this area. What were you hoping for? Bret ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org

Re: [Wtr-general] unknown property or method `readyState'

2007-05-08 Thread Bret Pettichord
I'm not sure i understand the context (is this supposed to be part of a thread? because it isn't). In any case, there are some recent changes that I made to trunk that might fix this problem. Bret Ken Lim wrote: Good day. Hope I understood your request for stack traces correctly. Please

Re: [Wtr-general] Community involvement with Watir

2007-05-04 Thread Bret Pettichord
Charley Baker wrote: I'd like to send out another annoucement asking for people to contribute to the Watir user guide and volunteer. I've started poking around at the user guide today and made a few changes, notably to update view source with the ie developer toolbar. I'll make further

Re: [Wtr-general] FireWatir doesn't ignore if it doesn't exists but Watir does

2007-05-04 Thread Bret Pettichord
Eoin wrote: However FireWatir doesn't ignore the login button and bombs out when it sees it. It would help if you showed us the error and the page. However, my guess is that the problem is with the behavior of contains_text. In Watir for IE 1.4 this did not include the title. In Watir for

[Wtr-general] The Plan for Watir

2007-05-04 Thread Bret Pettichord
I've been doing a lot of thinking and planning for what we need to do with Watir. I've also been fairly quiet. I now have a new job and have been preoccupied by the change in jobs lately: with wrapping up affairs at my old job at DataCert, with a job search, and then with starting at Dovetail,

Re: [Wtr-general] manipulating dos prompt with watir

2007-05-01 Thread Bret Pettichord
alan wrote: In my watir script i would like to have it go to open a dos command window and start sqlplus, then run a simple query to see if a member exists, the flow would be something like: open cmd.exe log in as [EMAIL PROTECTED] pass the password somewhere around here do query select *

Re: [Wtr-general] Do AutoIt3 scripts also work in Firewatir?

2007-05-01 Thread Bret Pettichord
Paul Rogers wrote: This may be a good thing to try and coordinate with Chris Macmahons Win32guitest port. Where can i find out more about this? Bret ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org

Re: [Wtr-general] Do AutoIt3 scripts also work in Firewatir?

2007-04-30 Thread Bret Pettichord
Angrez Singh wrote: AutoIt3 is not supported by FireWatir. This is done so as to make Firewatir platform independent. Only 'alert' and 'confirm' javascript pop ups are supported as of now. We are looking into the alternatives/solutions were we can support other dialogs like Save File etc

Re: [Wtr-general] OT: New version of RDT plugin for Eclipse

2007-04-25 Thread Bret Pettichord
Lillis, Dara wrote: one thing I've noticed that's slightly weird is that when I use click_no_wait from eclipse using the new rdt (eclipse 3.2, with rdt 0.9 RC1), what looks like a dos window pops up for a fraction of a second. the method still works and the popup causes me no problems,

[Wtr-general] Fwd: + Hackety Hack +

2007-04-25 Thread Bret Pettichord
Here is what looks like a very useful tool for learning Ruby. This is from the author of Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby. http://hacketyhack.net/ http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hacketyhack/wiki/GetHacketyHack Bret -- Forwarded message -- From: why the lucky stiff [EMAIL

Re: [Wtr-general] Accessing a custom input field

2007-04-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
Jeff Fry wrote: Hi gang, I have been trying unsuccessfully to access the username field on: http://sandbox.freebase.com/signin/signin http://sandbox.freebase.com/signin/signin In the HTML source, all I see is: div component=SignInComponent/ div which is included above:

Re: [Wtr-general] Controlling a Browser's Menubar (or whatever it is called)

2007-04-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
Bernard Kenik wrote: I have a script which: 1. goes to a site 2. moves to the login page 3. login 4. moves to an interactive database 5. specify the desired data by means of checkboxes, select_lists, and buttons 6. the result is the specified data displayed in a table. What I would

Re: [Wtr-general] [OT] - array nightmare

2007-04-17 Thread Bret Pettichord
Walter Kruse wrote: Anyway, as I said, off topic so don't worry too much - this solves a sort-term problem. Just to be clear. I don't consider this line of questions to be off topic. Yes technically they are Ruby questions rather than Watir questions, but the are welcome on this forum.

Re: [Wtr-general] How to verify the values in the tages

2007-04-17 Thread Bret Pettichord
vamsi wrote: require 'test/unit' class TC_Spike Test::Unit::TestCase def test_crlf data = first line second line assert_match(,data, /first line\s+second line/) end end error: first line\r\n\r\nsecond line expected but acutal was /fist line\s+secondling/ Please show your

Re: [Wtr-general] Basic question re looping

2007-04-12 Thread Bret Pettichord
Nicola Kennedy wrote: require 'watir' include Watir require 'test/unit' class TC_recorded Test::Unit::TestCase def test_recorded ie = IE.new ie.goto(http://www.google.co.uk;) ie.bring_to_front ie.text_field(:name, 'q').set(barry manilow)

Re: [Wtr-general] Running Watir in cygwin environment

2007-04-11 Thread Bret Pettichord
Koteswara Annavarapu wrote: So , if I need to use WATIR module from the cygwin environment , please let me know wat I need to do of the below 1) change the environement variables in cygwin , for using the same ruby installed in windows 2) let me know , if we can install the watir gem in

Re: [Wtr-general] Accessing elements between DIV tags

2007-04-11 Thread Bret Pettichord
Daniel Kurtz wrote: Thanks, I'll give it a try. Although I haven't had luck so far with things like div().links. We'll see how it goes. Use Watir 1.5. ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org

Re: [Wtr-general] Using Until

2007-04-05 Thread Bret Pettichord
Nicola Kennedy wrote: I want the code to do the following things: 1. Check on page for a link. 2. If link not there, press Next page 3. If link there, click on it. 4. When next page reached (if step 2 followed), repeat the action of looking for link/clicking next. Here is one

Re: [Wtr-general] IE nested class of module watir?

2007-04-05 Thread Bret Pettichord
aidy lewis wrote: I am unsure why IE is a nested class of the module watir All of the Watir classes are in the Watir module. This is to avoid collisions with classes you may be using from other packages. Watir tries to be a good citizen. If you look at other Ruby libraries, you will see that

Re: [Wtr-general] Assert Dates?

2007-04-02 Thread Bret Pettichord
Ravi wrote: Replace: $mainF.contains_text(/myDates/) with: $mainF.contains_text(#{myDates}) This will also work: $mainF.contains_text(myDates) ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org

Re: [Wtr-general] Modal_dialog_test.rb

2007-03-28 Thread Bret Pettichord
Simba wrote: So what is the Ruby Version i have to use ,to resolve this problem. 1.8.2 ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

Re: [Wtr-general] watir execution from webserver

2007-03-27 Thread Bret Pettichord
eisdrache wrote: I actually thought about the gserver route, but now that you mention the idea of using rails my attention has been perked. I have done a tiny bit of work with rails, but my overall knowledge of the framework is limited. I am highly interested in learning and am actually in

Re: [Wtr-general] Question about wait_until(n) {element.exists?}

2007-03-27 Thread Bret Pettichord
John Lolis wrote: waitr 1136 Lets say I have the following action i want to perform $ie.frame('Frame').table(:id,'ID).table(:index,1)[1][2].click But, the this is frame heavy page, and wait sometimes doesn't play nice, so I decide to do element =

Re: [Wtr-general] Testing a development process

2007-03-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
It is time to find a new client. If you are right, with time they will figure out on their own why they need you and will be calling you back. Bret ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

[Wtr-general] OpenQA issues

2007-03-15 Thread Bret Pettichord
If you have problems with the OpenQA website, including Jira, Confluence (the wiki) and the Forums, you should contact our host Patrick Lightbody [EMAIL PROTECTED]. There is also a mailing list (but not a forum) for discussing these issues. It is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you can join by sending an

Re: [Wtr-general] I'm a little confused..

2007-03-14 Thread Bret Pettichord
The user forum, and FAQ sections of the openqa.org/water site are broken links Could you please provide details so we can fix them. Bret - Posted via Jive Forums

[Wtr-general] Fwd: [openqa-admin] IE issues

2007-03-14 Thread Bret Pettichord
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Patrick Lightbody [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mar 14, 2007 5:59 PM Subject: [openqa-admin] IE issues To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All, If any of your users report or have reported issues with IE not working on parts of OpenQA, please let them know the

Re: [Wtr-general] Is there a global variable to control the scripts

2007-03-13 Thread Bret Pettichord
$FAST_SPEED = true - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.openqa.org/thread.jspa?threadID=6874messageID=19838#19838 ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org

Re: [Wtr-general] OT: The original problem. Re: A small doubt in Ruby

2007-03-10 Thread Bret Pettichord
As Marick says, variables and objects are different kinds of things. The name of the thing is not the thing itself. Variables do not contain objects, they point to them. In the array example Chris posted, we assign a, a reference which points to the collection containing [a, b,c], and then

Re: [Wtr-general] OT: The original problem. Re: A small doubt in Ruby

2007-03-06 Thread Bret Pettichord
Apparently inside an each loop you're only working on a copy of the item, not the item itself, so to_s isn't actually working on the real items in the array. This is not true. The problem is not that you have a copy, but rather that your reference ('item) is local to the block. Changing it

Re: [Wtr-general] Calling Definition again!

2007-03-06 Thread Bret Pettichord
Please post some Ruby code that demonstrates your problem. What you posted was pseudo-code and I was not able to follow it. Please post code that we can run, so we can see your problem. Bret - Posted via Jive Forums

Re: [Wtr-general] Problems accessing modal_dialog from ruby v. 1.8.5

2007-03-06 Thread Bret Pettichord
Do we have a timeline on when this will work in 1.8.5? Is anyone working on this? I don't believe any one is working on it right now. The simple solution would be to merge our changes to the WIN32OLE library into the 1.8.5 version and recompile it. But then we'd have the same problem again

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir + IE dev toolbar

2007-02-27 Thread Bret Pettichord
Thanks for the reports. What versions of the IE Dev Toolbar are you using? I noticed that they are now on Version Beta 3. - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.openqa.org/thread.jspa?threadID=6590messageID=19263#19263

[Wtr-general] ci-reporter question

2007-02-27 Thread Bret Pettichord
I'm getting an error with ci_reporter on my CI box. It works on my development machine. I've tracked the error down to the gem command, found here: def create_builder begin gem 'builder' require 'builder' rescue begin gem

Re: [Wtr-general] ci-reporter question

2007-02-27 Thread Bret Pettichord
Ethan Jewett wrote: gem replaced require_gem, sort of - http://redhanded.hobix.com/bits/require_gemIsDeprecated.html However, you seem to have a recent enough version of rubygems that this shouldn't be a problem. Maybe there's a missing require 'rubygems' somewhere? I'm using Ruby

Re: [Wtr-general] Problem with wrapper created around Watir.rb

2007-02-26 Thread Bret Pettichord
Your problem is that unlike the Watir::IE objects, the objects returned by Watir::IE::Frame are short lived. You are using your reference for too long. Specifically a page refresh invalidates the object. Details below. Bret # return a current, valid reference to the frame. def

Re: [Wtr-general] Nested Frames

2007-02-26 Thread Bret Pettichord
Akhil Mehra wrote: No the applications is currently hosted on the same server. I get the following error when clicking on a link from one frame which inter updates another frame. Exception: unknown property or method `readyState' HRESULT error code:0x80070005 Access is

Re: [Wtr-general] A Question about Java applets

2007-02-26 Thread Bret Pettichord
Quang wrote: Is there any way of using watir with java applets? Or does anyone know of any testing tool that could test java applets? You'll need to use a Java GUI Testing tool, like Abbot or Marathon. ___ Wtr-general mailing list

Re: [Wtr-general] OT: Test unit reporter project dead?

2007-02-26 Thread Bret Pettichord
Nick Sieger wrote: The other bit is that it will write its report files to test/reports, unless you set the ENV variable CI_REPORTS to a directory where they should be written. I didn't know to look here. I installed ci_reporter today and had to read the source to figure this out (I should

Re: [Wtr-general] Button identification

2007-02-26 Thread Bret Pettichord
Simba wrote: Thanks Bret , Toady i have seen that limitation in Watir site , i did not knew this limitation in Watir and also i am new to Watir , I have another question for you For some page I used ie.show_all_objects in CMD , it has given ouput something like this HTML Docuemnt

Re: [Wtr-general] TextField#set and utf-8

2007-02-26 Thread Bret Pettichord
See http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-71 for comments on how to support Chinese. - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.openqa.org/thread.jspa?threadID=6674messageID=19265#19265 ___

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
Walter Kruse wrote: I just wish the Win32-GUITest library could get the same amount of attention. I've had lots of success with Perl's version of this lib., and would like to do that testing in Ruby now. Maybe you could give it some attention. Seriously, there is no one to do this stuff

Re: [Wtr-general] Pass links text to array

2007-02-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
sathees wrote: I am running watir 1.4.1 , if I update to 1.5.1 then my test is not running in IE 6 Please report details. We are giving top priority to these problems. Bret ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org

Re: [Wtr-general] Pass links text to array

2007-02-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
sathees wrote: i am getting an error i have added the div to where the links i want are located. irb(main):363:0 s=[] = [] irb(main):364:0 ie.div(:id, top).links.each {|link|slink.text} NameError: undefined local variable or method `document' for #Watir::Div:0x2dfdafc from

Re: [Wtr-general] Nested Frames

2007-02-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
Akhil Mehra wrote: Hi Guys, I am currently trying to use Watir (1.5.1.1158) to test Web applications in our organization. The web application i am trying to build test around have a number of Frames and IFrames and in a number of cases heavily nested. I am currently facing problems

Re: [Wtr-general] Pass links text to array

2007-02-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
sathees wrote: yes that's true. it works with watir 1.5.XX. but the problem is my test which runs well in Watir 1.4.1 ie6 doesn't run with watir 1.5.xx and IE 6. I am getting the following error. any help appreciated c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.1.1127/./watir.rb:2592:in

Re: [Wtr-general] Button identification

2007-02-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
Simba wrote: Hi, I have several [b]Delete[/b] caption button on page , To identify them i am trying to use multiple properties but its giving error some thing like this ie.button(:text='Delete',:index=1) please anybody tell me how solve this problem. This is a known (to me) problem.

Re: [Wtr-general] 'ie.close' or 'ie.close if ie'

2007-02-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
Maisonnette wrote: Hi everyone , I have two question for you ! 1- I don't know what 's the difference between the ie.close and the ie.close if ie. In the first case if ie is nil (i.e. has not been initilized), then you will get a missing method 'close' for nil error. In the second case,

Re: [Wtr-general] Print statements

2007-02-21 Thread Bret Pettichord
ie2.image(:src , /ps_save_button.gif/).click WIN32OLERuntimeError: Unknown property or method `document' HRESULT error code:0x80010108 The object invoked has disconnected from its clients. from C:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.1.1145 /./watir.rb:1655:in

Re: [Wtr-general] Problem with wrapper created around Watir.rb

2007-02-21 Thread Bret Pettichord
Ajitesh Srinetra wrote: Hi all In My testcases I created a wrapper around Watir.rb def login(ie,username,password) ie.text_field(:name, ranger_user[name]).set(username) ie.text_field(:name, ranger_user[password]).set(password) ie.button(:name, commit).click

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-21 Thread Bret Pettichord
John Lolis wrote: I don't feel that its a problem Watir needs to solve. If the community really did want some framework I think it would be a project separate from Watir. I'm not even sure a project like that would work. Every application that needs testing is probably going to need a

Re: [Wtr-general] How to call .fireEvent(event, eventObj)?

2007-02-19 Thread Bret Pettichord
MadNut wrote: language = javascript script = some script ie = IE.attcah(...) window = ie.document.parentWindow() window.execScript(script, language) Actually i was curious to know that the javascript looked like. ___ Wtr-general mailing list

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-19 Thread Bret Pettichord
Cylindric wrote: I'm not entirely sure what you mean by being unable to reference scripts, but I split my tests into: 1 script with helper functions such as GoToURLAndExpectText for example 1 script with the header type declarations in it, URL's, usernames etc X several scripts with various

Re: [Wtr-general] OT: Test unit reporter project dead?

2007-02-17 Thread Bret Pettichord
Nick Sieger wrote: Slightly shameless plug -- you might be interested in my CI::Reporter [1] package that I released recently. [1] http://caldersphere.rubyforge.org/ci_reporter Yes, thanks, it looks good, and i plan to install it this week. Apparently it is the annoited successor to

Re: [Wtr-general] VBScript Fails with Watir

2007-02-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
My best guess is the problem is with the data.set command. Watir just jams the argument into the value parameter, whereas most pages have a bunch of validation code that runs on it first. In other words, it is likely that Watir is NOT running this validation code. If there is a problem with

Re: [Wtr-general] OT: algorithm help?

2007-02-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Here is a clever and elegant solution: http://dannorth.net/2007/02/monkey-business-value ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

Re: [Wtr-general] How to call .fireEvent(event, eventObj)?

2007-02-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
p.s. As a variant, I resolve this problem by executing that script directly via ExecScript() from ie window. Maybe, anybody can tell a better way. Could you share this with us? ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir and SmartClient

2007-02-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know if Watir would run on a SmartClient, that uses IE dlls? It probably wouldn't be hard to reuse 95% of watir, but you would have to make some modifications to the IE class. ___ Wtr-general mailing list

Re: [Wtr-general] How to call .fireEvent(event, eventObj)?

2007-02-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Settle down. He's only trying to help. ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

Re: [Wtr-general] Windows 2003 64-bit and IE.new_process Fails

2007-02-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Jim Hollcraft wrote: IE.new_process appears to fail under windows 2003 64-bit. IE.new works fine. I'm pretty sure this isn't an issue with my code since the exact same code works great under 32 bit versions of both windows 2003 and windows XP. Any suggestions? What error are you getting?

Re: [Wtr-general] OT: Test unit reporter project dead?

2007-02-16 Thread Bret Pettichord
Charley Baker wrote: I've been using test unit reporter for some time. I just tried to look up the page on Rubyforge for a friend and now I'm getting an Invalid Project page at http://rubyforge.org/project/test-report/ http://rubyforge.org/project/test-report/ and the project site listed

Re: [Wtr-general] VBScript Fails with Watir

2007-02-15 Thread Bret Pettichord
Federico Vela wrote: Hi Bret, Thanks so much for your reply and sorry for not posting that code initially. mainFrame.link(:url,%r{Report\.asp}).click mainFrame.button(:name,cmdGo).click mainFrame.text_field(:name,txtInitialDate).set(2/10/2006) mainFrame.link(:id,ViewReport).click

Re: [Wtr-general] Broken link for the web service file.

2007-02-15 Thread Bret Pettichord
barry wrote: This link is broken. Can someone fix this? http://wtr.rubyforge.org/s101/doc/exercises/web-services-lab.html It is here: http://wtr.rubyforge.org/s101/exercises/web-services-lab.html ___ Wtr-general mailing list

Re: [Wtr-general] Why this error and how to supress it?

2007-02-15 Thread Bret Pettichord
The error will go away if you upgrade to Watir 1.5. ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

Re: [Wtr-general] VBScript Fails with Watir

2007-02-14 Thread Bret Pettichord
Federico Vela wrote: I know document.all is not the greatest of functions but it is how the application is working currently and I do not have the option of changing the source code... any ideas??? Can you show us the watir code that triggers this error?

Re: [Wtr-general] [NEWBIE] can't convert WIN32OLE into

2007-02-13 Thread Bret Pettichord
Federico Vela wrote: I will upgrade to watir 1.5, but in the meanwhile i will comment out the add_checker( navigation_checker ) line. What exactly does this function do? Actually my question is, how safe is it to uncomment? The navigation_checker automatically raises exceptions when you

Re: [Wtr-general] actual working code Re: OT: algorithm help?

2007-02-13 Thread Bret Pettichord
This would be a great topic to discuss on ruby-talk (aka comp.lang.ruby). I'm sure you'd get lots of suggestions. Bret ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

Re: [Wtr-general] [NEWBIE] can't convert WIN32OLE into String (TypeError)

2007-02-12 Thread Bret Pettichord
By the way, this problem looks like it is related to http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-94 Bret ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

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