[wtr-general] where was the send method placed in?

2008-10-07 Thread bugs apple
In the locator.rb for watir api, there is call that execute the element.send(@how) method like below, but I fail to find the send method in element.rb, anybody can tell where it is and which rb files? def locate object_index = 1 @elements.each do |object| element = Element.ne

[wtr-general] Re: ERROR installing watir

2008-10-07 Thread Tim Koopmans
Dang, can't take my own advice =) I've created an MSI based on Windows XP SP2 with Ruby 1.8.6 and Watir 1.5.6 here: http://justaddwatir.com/watir/wp-content/uploads/watir_156.msi Feel free to try it out, no guarantees of course ... There is also some brief instructions for use here: http://justa

[wtr-general] Re: HOW TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF DEVELOP THE WATIR CODE

2008-10-07 Thread bugs apple
Even if I go through the JAF code, but the discoveryobject.rb still does not work in Watir Environment, maybe it was banded in FireWatir. Have you any other suggestions? Thanks -Wiston. 2008/10/7 aidy lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 07/10/2008, bugs apple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

[wtr-general] Re: Bug Fix For Watir 1.5.6

2008-10-07 Thread bugs apple
Yes, I known this but I want to get it work. *Hi, more watir developers,* Another questions about the email title, there are two issues below I am very concern. a, For the bug ticket in jira, http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-193, on our tested system, there are lots of duplicate objects, which

[wtr-general] Re: text_field

2008-10-07 Thread wesley chen
Weird, I can make it with your code. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following

[wtr-general] Re: ERROR installing watir

2008-10-07 Thread Tim Koopmans
Indeed, it's a chicken and egg scenario =) I used to package applications into MSIs; I've often thought about rolling my own msi to take from site to site, as the organizations I work in rarely have unauthenticated access to the internet. However doing it via a batch file works well for me. An MS

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate the element with node(child node, father node) or directory attributes?

2008-10-07 Thread wesley chen
Thanks Bret, your comment works. I mistake the parent as parentNode, so I always failed. Hi, Aidy, Would you please show your idea more detailed? I think your idea may be useful sometimes. Thanks all you guys. Wesley. --:) Man should be hard to himself, but tolerant to others. --~--~-~

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate an INPUT element embedeed in a table

2008-10-07 Thread Cynthia Zhang
This shall work as well: ie.form(:id,'login_form').text_field(:name, 'u_name').set'user' ie.form(:id,'login_form').text_field(:name, 'p_word').set'password' ie.form(:id,'login_form').button(:class,'btSubmit').click -Original Message- From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

[wtr-general] Re: text_field

2008-10-07 Thread Fukaya Yoshikazu
help me How can I access to the following text_field ! I could not get to it by using "ie.text_field(:name,'miseCode').set('1234')" Why! can't Watir access to a text_field without 'type=' like this? -- title --

[wtr-general] Re: Clicking a menu item

2008-10-07 Thread Tiffany Fodor
Hi! Have you tried clicking on the span itself? ie.span(:text, 'SpanText').click -Tiffany On Oct 7, 3:27 pm, FM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to click a menu item on the webpage using it's id but it > does not seem to work. Any suggestion? The menu item is contained by > el

[wtr-general] Clicking a menu item

2008-10-07 Thread FM
Hi, I am trying to click a menu item on the webpage using it's id but it does not seem to work. Any suggestion? The menu item is contained by element. Thank you. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wat

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate an INPUT element embedeed in a table

2008-10-07 Thread Tiffany Fodor
Yay! Nice work Ravi! On Oct 7, 2:13 pm, Ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found the following working! > > $ie.div(:id,'maincontent').text_field(:name,'u_name').set '1234' > > $ie.div(:id,'maincontent').text_field(:name,'p_word').set '1234' > > On Oct 7, 12:26 pm, Tiffany Fodor <[EMAIL PROTEC

[wtr-general] Re: Identifying Tabs

2008-10-07 Thread Fatema Karim
Thank you very much. I will try the suggestions you have given me. On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Tiffany Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > When I've worked with tabs in the past, the text the user clicks on in > the tab is usually a link. Try something like this: > > ie.link(:text,

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate an INPUT element embedeed in a table

2008-10-07 Thread Ravi
I found the following working! $ie.div(:id,'maincontent').text_field(:name,'u_name').set '1234' $ie.div(:id,'maincontent').text_field(:name,'p_word').set '1234' On Oct 7, 12:26 pm, Tiffany Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again! > > I didn't realize your site was public, so I gave it a sh

[wtr-general] Re: ERROR installing watir

2008-10-07 Thread Bret Pettichord
I've found that the gem installer works much better if you do a "gem update --system". Unfortunately this can be hard to do also (for the same reasons). On one occassion, I did this update on a machine that did not have connection problems, then I copied the entire ruby directory to my other

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate the element with node(child node, father node) or directory attributes?

2008-10-07 Thread Bret Pettichord
element1 = browser.link(:id, 'menu9373847813') element2 = element1.parent.parent element3 = element2.parent element4 = browser.div(:after? => element2) wesley chen wrote: > Please watch the pic: question.jpg at first; > When I locate the element A, how can I locate the element close to A > with

[wtr-general] Re: ERROR installing watir

2008-10-07 Thread Tim Koopmans
This happens to me a lot. Try installing from gem files downloaded manually. There's some instructions on how to do this here: http://justaddwatir.com/watir/q-how-do-i-gem-install-watir-behind-a-proxy-server/ Check out the comments section for recent example. Regards, Tim Koopmans --~--~

[wtr-general] Re: Identifying Tabs

2008-10-07 Thread Tiffany Fodor
Hi! When I've worked with tabs in the past, the text the user clicks on in the tab is usually a link. Try something like this: ie.link(:text, 'Tab 1').click Hope this helps! -Tiffany On Oct 7, 11:26 am, FM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently started using Watir. I think this

[wtr-general] Re: Identifying Tabs

2008-10-07 Thread Oscar Rosario
You should download and try "IE HTML Element Spy" or similar product(s). Good luck. From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Lane Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 2:58 PM To: watir-general@googlegroups.com Subject: [wtr-gen

[wtr-general] Re: Identifying Tabs

2008-10-07 Thread Nathan Lane
'Tabs' doesn't mean much to Watir I think, because there is no such thing as a tab HTML element (for example doesn't exist in HTML), it would help us and you more if you could tell us if the tab is contained by a , , or element or some other element. On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:26 AM, FM <[EMAIL P

[wtr-general] Identifying Tabs

2008-10-07 Thread FM
Hi, I have recently started using Watir. I think this is not a new quesiton but I have searched for different solutions and they do not seem to work. I have 6 tabs in a webpage, and I am trying to click one of them but I am unable to do this since there is no object id or name that I could use to

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate an INPUT element embedeed in a table

2008-10-07 Thread Tiffany Fodor
Hi again! I didn't realize your site was public, so I gave it a shot myself. The username and password on the http://www.fotolog.com homepage work fine, but I'm having the same problem with the password field on the http://account.fotolog.com/login page. If you find a way around this, I'd be rea

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate an INPUT element embedeed in a table

2008-10-07 Thread Natasha Ranney
Thanks Tiffany. I will try that out. Just that this is not our code. This belongs to Fotolog. But anyways, will surely try out the options suggested and revert with my observations. Regards, Natasha Tiffany Fodor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry, I should have included this in my original resp

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate an INPUT element embedeed in a table

2008-10-07 Thread Tiffany Fodor
Sorry, I should have included this in my original response I don't think your problem is related to your object being embedded in a table, I think there's a protection on it that doesn't allow automated tools to access it. You can verify this by just performing a .exists? on your object to m

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate an INPUT element embedeed in a table

2008-10-07 Thread Tiffany Fodor
Hi Natasha! I've run into the same problem with password confirmation fields when adding a user in an application. If the field will not accept focus from Watir, you may need to see if you can get your developer to change the properties on it. I tried everything I could think of and even solici

[wtr-general] How to locate an INPUT element embedeed in a table

2008-10-07 Thread Natasha
Hello All, I am trying to automate Fotolog's login page. Please could you help me. Following is the snippet of HTML code: --- Username:

[wtr-general] Re: Bug Fix For Watir 1.5.6

2008-10-07 Thread Michael Hwee
Hi Wiston, The text_field element does not support multiple-attributes as of now. So, that is not unusual to get error with hash parameter. Michael From: bugs apple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: watir-general@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 5:22:11 AM

[wtr-general] Re: ERROR installing watir

2008-10-07 Thread Bret Pettichord
Here is some information here about installing Watir from behind a proxy. http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Installing+ruby+gems+from+behind+proxy+firewall Watir now depends on several other gems, so it will be complicated to try and download and install them them all locally. You will need to

[wtr-general] Re: if page loading

2008-10-07 Thread Paul Rogers
you should be able to look in the wait method of Watir::IE and see what we poll for to see if the page is complete. There are 2 poperties that contain this info, one for the document and one for the window ( frames probably have one per doc) its called something likie readyStateComplete Paul On

[wtr-general] if page loading

2008-10-07 Thread aidy lewis
Hi, Is there anything in the external api that will check to see if the page is currently loading? Aidy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to wa

[wtr-general] Re: Open-source in test automation

2008-10-07 Thread alex.ikhelis
Hi Zeljko, Pete, Aidy! Thanks a lot for your replies! These are good references! To Zeljko: much appreciate your consecutive and useful response. Just to be on the same page. I was not much clear in my original post. I have already been watching watir community for 1 year. And now I have came up

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate the element with node(child node, father node) or directory attributes?

2008-10-07 Thread Alan Baird
You can also locate the parent by using: object.parent On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:55 AM, aidy lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:16 AM, wesley chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > When I locate the element A, > > anchor = ie.document.getElementByTagName("A") > > how can

[wtr-general] Re: HOW TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF DEVELOP THE WATIR CODE

2008-10-07 Thread aidy lewis
On 07/10/2008, bugs apple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am very interesting in your code for learning the objects in discovery.rb, > but it does not work in my machine, and it work well in firewatir. > Have you the similar method code for the IE watir to discovery the objects > on page? Or cou

[wtr-general] Re: Open-source in test automation

2008-10-07 Thread aidy lewis
alex, On 07/10/2008, Pete Dignan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex - if you can wait a few months, Watircraft (www.watircraft.com) > is starting work on a framework using RSpec (rspec.info), designed for > use with Watir, that we intend to open-source. It should be available > in late Dece

[wtr-general] Re: Open-source in test automation

2008-10-07 Thread Pete Dignan
Alex - if you can wait a few months, Watircraft (www.watircraft.com) is starting work on a framework using RSpec (rspec.info), designed for use with Watir, that we intend to open-source. It should be available in late December or January sometime. It will be general in nature so it can be widely

[wtr-general] Re: HOW TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF DEVELOP THE WATIR CODE

2008-10-07 Thread bugs apple
aidy, thanks a lot. I am very interesting in your code for learning the objects in discovery.rb, but it does not work in my machine, and it work well in firewatir. Have you the similar method code for the IE watir to discovery the objects on page? Or could you please provide some suggestion so t

[wtr-general] Re: Bug Fix For Watir 1.5.6

2008-10-07 Thread bugs apple
hi, aidy For the current version, the watir support the hash data for the multiple attributes, but, I fail to execute this statement ie.text_field(:name => "test").set "abb" when only specify one attribute. In fact, I want to the hash varible for parameter transferring after package it as a functi

[wtr-general] Re: Bug Fix For Watir 1.5.6

2008-10-07 Thread aidy lewis
On 07/10/2008, bugs apple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ie.text_field(:name => "test").set "abb", If you are just hooking onto one attribute use ie.text_field(:name, "test").set "abb" for > 1 ie.text_field(:name => "test", :id => "aidy").set "abb" or ie.text_field(:name => "test", :index=> 1).

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate the element with node(child node, father node) or directory attributes?

2008-10-07 Thread aidy lewis
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:16 AM, wesley chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I locate the element A, anchor = ie.document.getElementByTagName("A") how can I locate the element close to A with > node(child node, father node) or directory attributes? > anchor.getAttribute("title") anchor.getE

[wtr-general] Bug Fix For Watir 1.5.6

2008-10-07 Thread bugs apple
Bret, aidy, and watir developers, Another questions about the email title, there are two issues below I am very concern. a, For the bug ticket in jira, http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-193, on our tested system, there are lots of duplicate objects, which are equipped with the input tag, it seem

[wtr-general] Re: How to locate the element with node(child node, father node) or directory attributes?

2008-10-07 Thread Željko Filipin
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:16 AM, wesley chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I locate the element A, how can I locate the element close to A with node(child node, father node) or directory attributes? I am pretty sure you can do it with xpath, but I am not good at it. I would Google for xpath tut

[wtr-general] Re: ERROR installing watir

2008-10-07 Thread Željko Filipin
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Alister Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Development+Builds Alister, gems at that page are really old. Maybe you should remove them. Ranulfo, Download watir from here (and follow Alister's instructions): http://rubyforge.or

[wtr-general] Re: Ruby integration with TestLink

2008-10-07 Thread Natasha Ranney
Thanks a bunch for sharing details. Actually I haven't yet thought about the exact implementation. I have recently started using Watir and am maintaining my tests in XLS. But I wanted to use any open source test case management tool which helps me organize my tests, allows me to execute te

[wtr-general] Re: Ruby integration with TestLink

2008-10-07 Thread Tim Koopmans
Natasha, there's an API already available which you could use as a client. As Manish has mentioned, it would be relatively simple to execute test cases. To update, you could just use the sample ruby client implementation ... Do you have specific functionality in mind that you're looking to impleme

[wtr-general] Re: Watir/Ruby TestManager

2008-10-07 Thread vasu
Hi, Presently iam aslo working on WATIR but as per our manager we need a GUI to control. Please share your knowledge with me. thanks, vasu On Sep 3, 11:55 am, Manish Sapariya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We use TestLink for managing our tests.http://www.teamst.org/ > We have customized testlink

[wtr-general] Re: Need help with input type : p (paragraph)

2008-10-07 Thread Natasha Ranney
Hey Paul, It worked :) I just tried simulating it in a way things happen manually. I had actually tried the same thing yesterday, but was accessing the element by wrong method. So, following is what worked for me: $ie.p(:id,"pTypeHint").span(:index,"1").click $ie.text_fiel

[wtr-general] Re: Ruby integration with TestLink

2008-10-07 Thread Alister Scott
Hi Manish, If you have time, it would be great if you could share your solution you talk about on a wiki page. You can create a page with the example under: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Advanced+Examples Screenshots would be good too. Regards, Alister Scott On Oct 7, 4:26 pm, Manish Sapar