I'm sure there's a way for Watir to do this just like FireWatir. It just
hasn't been done yet, as far as i am aware.
Angrez is the author of both Watir's xpath support as well as FireWatir,
so that is probably why xpath works better with FireWatir than WatirIE.
Angrez, do you have anything to add here?
Bret
Richard Lawrence wrote:
> 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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