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.
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: Bret Pettichord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 1:40 pm Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] The Plan for Watir > 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 showModalDialog is > that it > >> only works with Ruby 1.8.2. Fixing this would require that > IEDialog.dll > >> be rewritten as an activex component. > >> > > > > Doesn't WET already handle modal dialogs pretty well? > Yes, i believe it does. > > What would be > > involved in integrating WET's functionality into Watir? > > > Some programming and testing. And apparently more than any one is > willing to do. > >>> Provide cleaner interface and more reliable support for modal > windows>>> dialogs (i.e. replace winClicker.rb) > >>> http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-4 > >>> > >> Although this is desirable and many people have talked about > helping > >> with this, we've seen few actual contributions. Personally, i > have > >> almost always found ways to avoid these dialogs, so I have > never had > >> much motivation to fix this myself. > >> > > > > I would like to help, but I don't feel competent enough yet to > do any > > good. I'd imagine that others probably feel the same way. > Perhaps it > > would help attract more help if there were some tutorials on the > > architecture of watir? > > > First of all, this code has nothing to do with "the architecture > of > watir". It is basically standalone and separate. > > Your suggestion seems to assume that I am trying to attract more > help. > Actually, I'm mostly inclined to remove this code from Watir or > else > move to a separate contrib project. I think the best way to > attract > support would be be make it clear that this is abandoned code. > > For the record, i do not have a good understanding of this code. > I've > never worked on it. And i don't use it. > > But if you are able to convince somebody to write up a tutorial on > how > this code works (or doesn't) then that would be great. Just don't > look > at me. > > At one point (like when i opened the jira ticket) i thought i > might > eventually get around to cleaning up this code. I no longer think > this > is likely. > > >> The show_modal_dialog support in watir 1.5 is specific to IE. > So no. It > >> would be handy to have a better windows library for handling > general > >> windows dialogs, and if we had that, then it would also help > for firefox > >> -- you could use it there too, although I know that Angrez is > focussing > >> on features that would not be platform specific. All of the > mechanisms > >> that we currently using in Watir (autoit, winclicker, win32api) > are > >> windows specific, so known of them would be migrated to other > platforms.>> > > > > Is there a design document for what such a library should have? > > > No i don't believe so. > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > Wtr-general@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general > _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
