But there's no way for Watir to infer the object type the way FireWatir does?
Thanks,
Richard
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> wrote:
>
> Richard Lawrence wrote:
>> Using FireWatir's element_by_xpath on my Mac, I get the expected type
>> for the element. For example, on the Google home page:
>>
>> irb(main):008:0> b.element_by_xpath("//*...@name='btnG']").class
>> submit
>> => FireWatir::Button
>>
>> But with Watir (on Windows, of course), I always get an instance of
>> WIN32OLE back. For the same example:
>>
>> irb(main):018:0> b.element_by_xpath("//*...@name='btnG']").class
>> => WIN32OLE
>>
>> Is there a way I can get the Button object I expect from
>> element_by_xpath with Watir?
>>
>>
> b.button(:xpath, "//*...@name='btnG']")
>
> This actually wraps the call to element_by_xpath.
>
> Bret
>
> >
>
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