RE: [Wtr-general] another next step

2005-08-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
At 12:41 AM 8/18/2005, Tim Feltham wrote: Is there any thought of adding a 8. WATIR for firefox? Read #6 again: 6. defer invokation of COM calls until necessary I've been pushing us this way for a while and believe that it is more important than ever. The simplest example of what this

RE: [Wtr-general] another next step

2005-08-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
To be more specific, Both xcom/mozilla and selenium are technologies that will drive firefox. At 12:41 AM 8/18/2005, Tim Feltham wrote: Is there any thought of adding a 8. WATIR for firefox? Read #6 again: 6. defer invokation of COM calls until necessary I've been pushing us this way for

RE: RE: [Wtr-general] Detecting a closed IE

2005-08-18 Thread Peter Chau
This code works for minimize and background IE browsers... Is there a way to turn background on/off in the middle of a script?? require 'watir' include Watir class IE def exists? begin @ie.hWnd== -1 return true rescue

RE: RE: [Wtr-general] Detecting a closed IE

2005-08-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
$ie.ie.visible = false At 11:12 AM 8/18/2005, Peter Chau wrote: This code works for minimize and background IE browsers... Is there a way to turn background on/off in the middle of a script?? require 'watir' include Watir class IE def exists? begin @ie.hWnd== -1

Re: [Wtr-general] A general question about the role of scripted tests within the responsibilities of QA.

2005-08-18 Thread John Lloyd-Jones
Michael In our project, developers use watir for validating a build -- basically regression testing to demonstrate that the build is viable and worthy of deploying in the test environment. Testers use a disfferent tool. Their job is made simpler because they don't wate time on a build that has one

[Wtr-general] [ wtr-Bugs-2263 ] Table should be a container

2005-08-18 Thread noreply
Bugs item #2263, was opened at 2005-08-18 13:30 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detailatid=487aid=2263group_id=104 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Bret Pettichord (bret) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Table

[Wtr-general] need help understanding focus error

2005-08-18 Thread Warren Pollans
How can I figure out (debug) what this complaint is about: WIN32OLERuntimeError: focus OLE error code:8000 in htmlfile Unexpected call to method or property access. HRESULT error code:0x80020009 Exception occurred. c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/watir.rb:3399:in

Re: [Wtr-general] need help understanding focus error

2005-08-18 Thread Warren Pollans
That works - but why doesn't the other work? I've temporarily bypassed this particular problem by using the value= method - just so I can get on with writing the test On or about Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:13:38 -0500 Bret Pettichord [EMAIL PROTECTED] allegedly wrote: At 03:23 PM 8/18/2005, Warren

[Wtr-general] installer issues

2005-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kohl
I am getting some emailsreporting a couple of issues. The first is from folks trying to install Watir with Ruby 182-15. They get an error message about the installer not being able to find Fox. Looks like Fox is now installed as a Gem, so one must also require rubygems in the installer. We

Re: [Wtr-general] another next step

2005-08-18 Thread Alex Verhovsky
Bret Pettichord wrote: 7. make a gem how could i forget -- kingsley is helping me with this. To remind, I once submitted a gemspec for Watir. It was before there were any native libraries in the distibution though. Anyway, Bret, if you need help with a gem, just whistle :) Alexey

Re: [Wtr-general] another next step

2005-08-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
Thanks for the reminder. I had searched my mail archive for your posts, but i didn't think to search for all possible spellings of your name Mr. Ver(k)hovsky. At 10:33 PM 8/18/2005, Alex Verhovsky wrote: Bret Pettichord wrote: 7. make a gem how could i forget -- kingsley is helping me with

Re: [Wtr-general] need help understanding focus error

2005-08-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
At 05:07 PM 8/18/2005, Warren Pollans wrote: That works - but why doesn't the other work? The object reference you stored becomes stale when a page loads or reloads. The same thing will happen to the value= method. I've temporarily bypassed this particular problem by using the value=

Re: [Wtr-general] installer issues

2005-08-18 Thread Jeff Wood
Bret Pettichord wrote: I just installed Ruby 182-15 and then Watir 1.4 and did not have any problems. All the unit tests (but the three frame tests -- a known issue) ran without problem. I did not need to add require 'rubygems'. I'm pretty sure that Fox was a gem in 182-14 as well. The

Re: [Wtr-general] installer issues

2005-08-18 Thread Jeff Wood
Bret Pettichord wrote: I just installed Ruby 182-15 and then Watir 1.4 and did not have any problems. All the unit tests (but the three frame tests -- a known issue) ran without problem. I did not need to add require 'rubygems'. I'm pretty sure that Fox was a gem in 182-14 as well. The