[wtr-general] Failed to revoke program remotely from Linux

2009-04-08 Thread Dan
I developed the program on Windows platform, for our project only support IE. The program works fine on Windows platform. Because other test cases are on Linux platform, we want to integrate all the test cases on the same platform. I need to revoke the program from Linux remotely, and I install

[wtr-general] Creating Frame objects before a page with a frame exists

2009-04-08 Thread Tony
Hi, Having trouble creating a frame object before a particular page contains the object. The framework contains an object repository which contains all the objects and methods that act on a particular page. Using textfields, links, buttons etc work fine, because this is not checked on the page

[wtr-general] Basic Watir presentation

2009-04-08 Thread JArkelen
Hi, Does anyone already have a powerpoint presentaion about Watir (what is it, hopw does it work, benefits, etc)? I will give a basic Watir training to my colleagues and want to create a presentation, but if there is already a good one around, I can use that one. Cheers, John

[wtr-general] Re: Browser.url does not return proper URL immediately after a browser.goto statement

2009-04-08 Thread Jarmo Pertman
Hi. Actually, it doesn't matter if () or {} is used. You just have to use some non-alpha character - for example, let's say that you want to add elements like {one {two {three then you cannot use %w{}, but it would be wise to use %w() instead. Anyway, here are some examples: irb(main):004:0

[wtr-general] click link in out of focus

2009-04-08 Thread venky
Hi All, I need to click a link which is out of focus in the page. I want the particular link or image to be visible and then click it. Can any body throw some light on it Thanks, Venkatesh --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[wtr-general] Re: How to use xml element?

2009-04-08 Thread Jarmo Pertman
You have some xml file opened in IE? Why not just download it and handle it as a regular XML, instead of trying to manipulate it with Watir? On Mar 31, 9:13 am, Angrez Singh ang...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Vikas, but my problem is not related to reading XML in ruby.

[wtr-general] Creating Frame objects before a page with a frame exists

2009-04-08 Thread Tony
Hi, Having trouble creating a frame object before a particular page contains the object. The framework contains an object repository which contains all the objects and methods that act on a particular page.Using textfields, links, buttons etc work fine, because this is not checked on the page

[wtr-general] Re: Difference between fire_event(click) and element.click

2009-04-08 Thread Jarmo Pertman
As I understand, then onfocus event is require prior clicking something? So for example, if uses clicks with mouse, then onfocus event is triggered before actual click? Is this the reason, why at the moment I have to do something like this in my tests to work correctly: button.click

[wtr-general] Re: Basic Watir presentation

2009-04-08 Thread Željko Filipin
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 13:19, JArkelen johnvanarke...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone already have a powerpoint presentaion about Watir I have something: http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ddxzzv39_615ggn2m7w4skipauth=true Željko --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[wtr-general] Re: WatirCraft Environment config file.

2009-04-08 Thread James
Awesome, thanks! New documentation is looking great, by the way! James On Apr 7, 7:41 pm, Bret Pettichord b...@pettichord.com wrote: James wrote: Also, can I set up different variables in the environment config table? For instance, what if I want one environment to be Site A with Login

[wtr-general] Windows Vista task scheduler can not start test.rb

2009-04-08 Thread jnxgn
I am facing a weird problem. I can start a test job test.rb by WindowsXP task scheduler, but can not initiate the test job by Windows Vista task scheduler, the test.rb can be run by double click on Windows Vista Explorer. Any help will be highly appreciated.

[wtr-general] Tooltip text with overlib

2009-04-08 Thread Trevor
Does anyone have any experience of using overlib with WATiR? Basically, our application uses overlib to display tooltips for as long as the mouse hovers over a help image. I need to check the text of the tooltip that is being returned, but haven't yet found out how - all the tooltips have

[wtr-general] Re: How to click on a table cell based on the text string that I know. Ex:- Wilmington.

2009-04-08 Thread SuperKevy
Well done Satish, Yepper we just gave you some close enuf examples. Glad you caught on and deconstructed the code to what you needed. On Apr 7, 3:41 pm, satish spanchumar...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Tiffany and SuperKevy, Both solutions are wonderful. Appreciate your help on this. I had to

[wtr-general] Re: How to click on a table cell based on the text string that I know. Ex:- Wilmington.

2009-04-08 Thread satish
Thank you. On Apr 7, 8:02 pm, KimBrown kimbro...@yahoo.com wrote: One other way that I figure out how to select a certain cell or button is to use a freeware capture/playback tool called Script Recorder. I'll set it to record and click on what I want and the code will almost always be

[wtr-general] Re: How to click on a table cell based on the text string that I know. Ex:- Wilmington.

2009-04-08 Thread satish
Thank you Satish On Apr 8, 10:54 am, SuperKevy kpe...@scholarshipamerica.org wrote: Well done Satish, Yepper we just gave you some close enuf examples. Glad you caught on and deconstructed the code to what you needed. On Apr 7, 3:41 pm, satish spanchumar...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you

[wtr-general] Re: How to calculate time difference?

2009-04-08 Thread Wesley Chen
require 'time' def time_difference(start_time, end_time) start_time = Time.parse(start_time) end_time = Time.parse(end_time) total_time = end_time - start_time time=Time.local(00:00:00) + total_time return time.to_s.match(/\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}/).to_s end puts

[wtr-general] Re: Creating Frame objects before a page with a frame exists

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Hwee
Frame object always checked before you can use it. - Original Message From: Tony ynot...@gmail.com To: Watir General watir-general@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 2:30:49 AM Subject: [wtr-general] Creating Frame objects before a page with a frame exists Hi, Having

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread George
I grabbed this code from somebody here...this may work (you'll need to install AutoIt): # Create a file clicker.rb require 'win32ole' begin autoit = WIN32OLE.new('AutoItX3.Control') loop do autoit.ControlClick(Windows Internet Explorer, '', 'OK') autoit.ControlClick(Security

[wtr-general] Re: Watir returns first element found. How to return all elements found?

2009-04-08 Thread IDIEININIIS
I forgot to give an update. Here it is. Tiffany's method worked great. e.g.) ie.div(:class = 'something', :index = 1) I just made the index value a variable and incremented it for every loop iteration. On Apr 6, 10:11 am, IDIEININIIS ideler.den...@gmail.com wrote: @George, Yes they are

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread Lisa Crispin
We seem to do just this. I haven't looked at it in awhile so I'm not sure if this is everything. This is in a module. require 'watir\ie' require 'watir\contrib\enabled_popup' # Main method to click a modal dialog button. def click_modal_button(ie, type='OK', sleep_time=6, timeout=20)

[wtr-general] Re: Are there IE Settings that can cause Watir to fail?

2009-04-08 Thread Tiffany Fodor
Hi Andrew! Could you please provide a sample of your code and the error you're getting? Thanks! -Tiffany On Apr 8, 12:10 pm, andrew.d...@lthree.com wrote: I am installing on a new machine, and watir fails searcing for its first element (a frame in this case). The exact code works on many

[wtr-general] Re: click link in out of focus

2009-04-08 Thread orde
Perhaps: @browser.link(:id, 'link_id').fire_event('onfocus') @browser.link(:id, 'link_id').click Do you have sample HTML? On Apr 8, 5:13 am, venky venkatesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I need to click a link which is out of focus in the page. I want the particular link or image to be

[wtr-general] Re: Are there IE Settings that can cause Watir to fail?

2009-04-08 Thread andrew . dahl
Here is a code snippet. logon_page.top_frame.contains_text('some text').should_not be_nil in logon_page.rb I have def logon_frame @browser.frame(:id, 'top_frame') end alias :top_frame :logon_frame and I gaurantee that there is a frame with id = 'top_frame' Fails with

[wtr-general] Re: Are there IE Settings that can cause Watir to fail?

2009-04-08 Thread Chuck van der Linden
What OS are you on? is there more than one open IE window on your system or does a second window open when you run the tests? Environments with 'high security' browser stipulations (vista, server 2008) will not allow a browser to have sessions open within it from different security zones. I

[wtr-general] Re: Tooltip text with overlib

2009-04-08 Thread Chuck van der Linden
I can see where the html might have identical format, but if it's completely identical I don't understand how it would work, unless it was inside some other container (like a div) that was different.. might be easier if you showed us more of the html, so we could see like 2 or 3 of these things

[wtr-general] Re: Can I get the content in the boolean left and right value??

2009-04-08 Thread Chuck van der Linden
As the others have indicated you need to pass the values into the method, and then do the equivalency test once you are inside. I defined something like this to do validations for some of my early scripts where I didn't like using assert or should because they would stop, and I wanted to run the

[wtr-general] Re: Organization and execution of test cases.

2009-04-08 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Apr 7, 11:29 am, Bret Pettichord b...@pettichord.com wrote: Calm down. The original poster asked what do people use. People should be able to share what they are using, when asked, without being obliged to provide a tutorial. I am calm. Although I should have phrased that better. I can

[wtr-general] Re: Basic Watir Help

2009-04-08 Thread Chuck van der Linden
We have to pick our battles.. Sounds like you've thought this one through and I can't say I'd not make the exact same choice to just 'live with it' given what you've described as being the situation. Especially if this is old and established code that as you say is not likely to change (sometimes

[wtr-general] Re: Organization and execution of test cases.

2009-04-08 Thread James
Thank you everyone for your comments. I've gotten watircraft working for me quite well, especially now that new documentation for it has been posted. I don't mind short answers to my questions, as long as people don't mind me asking following up questions if I don't understand what something

[wtr-general] Host our next Intro to Watir class?

2009-04-08 Thread Pete Dignan
On April 16 and 17, Bret will be teaching Intro to Watir in the Portland, OR area. We were able to do this thanks to Keith Hamilton and the good people at Transcore, who offered to host the class at their facility. We'd like to hold our next public class soon - in May, or June at the latest -

[wtr-general] Re: uninitialized constant Windows::API::Error (NameError)

2009-04-08 Thread marekj
Had the same issue on Windows XP test machine here when upgrading framework to use watir 1.6.2 and Ruby 1.8.6-26 We had windows-pr-0.9.6.gem installed with watir 1.6.2 I upgraded to following gems and it's fine windows-pr-1.0.2 windows-api-0.3.0.gem win32-api-1.4.0-x86-mswin32-60.gem fyi: We

[wtr-general] Re: Difference between fire_event(click) and element.click

2009-04-08 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Apr 8, 5:26 am, Jarmo Pertman jarm...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand, then onfocus event is require prior clicking something? So for example, if uses clicks with mouse, then onfocus event is triggered before actual click? I don't belive it's 'required' or the .click method would not

[wtr-general] Posting invalid form data with Watir

2009-04-08 Thread Paul Denize
In previous versions of watir I used to send 11 characters to a field that had a maxlimit of 10. This would ensure the server also checked the parameter and did something sensible (truncate or error message). The newer version seems a bit safer and ie.text_field (:index,1).set (01234567890)

[wtr-general] Re: Can I get the content in the boolean left and right value??

2009-04-08 Thread Wesley Chen
Hi, Chuck, :), to be honest, in my current code, I have the same approach as you have used before. In the approach, I can abandon the verify or assert completely. I think it is not good enough. Maybe I have to spend some time on Watircraft. Maybe I can make my frame easier, :). Thanks. Wesley

[wtr-general] Regex question

2009-04-08 Thread vladimir...@hotmail.com
I have a string obj_url = http://crisp.adoc.xerox.com:8080/docushare/dsweb/Get/ Document-77/ and need to extract 77. This code works perfect: handle = /.*Document-(.*)\//.match( obj_url ) puts handle[ 1 ] # returns 77 but this code does not work: obj_type = Document str = '.*' + obj_type

[wtr-general] Re: Regex question

2009-04-08 Thread ANu Gangavaram
When using regular expression with a variable, the syntax is /#{str}/ On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:30 PM, vladimir...@hotmail.com vladimir...@hotmail.com wrote: I have a string obj_url = http://crisp.adoc.xerox.com:8080/docushare/dsweb/Get/ Document-77/ and need to extract 77. This code

[wtr-general] Go on performance test using script.

2009-04-08 Thread Wesley Chen
Hi, All, I have heard that, we can go on performance test, such as load/stress test by script. So I would like to study one script language for it. I think in this great Watir general group, there are many testers going on performance testing. Any of you do the performance testing by manual

[wtr-general] firewatir, xpath and GL

2009-04-08 Thread Jeremy Mordkoff
Our app uses GL. Here's a snippet of a page source: ?xml version=1.0? ?xml-stylesheet href=chrome://global/skin/ type=text/css? !DOCTYPE window SYSTEM chrome://zviewer/locale/zviewer.titles.dtd !-- Window as main container-- window id=zvwindow title=Zv VideoGrid

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread spike
Thanks sir, the error which i was getting was removed but the script does not handle popups, so please suggest me a script for handling popups. On Apr 8, 8:03 pm, Jim Matthews jim_m...@swbell.net wrote: spike, The only thing I see right off is that you have: wsh

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread spike
Hi Thnaks for the reply but it isnt working for me. On Apr 8, 9:24 pm, George george.sand...@gmail.com wrote: I grabbed this code from somebody here...this may work (you'll need to install AutoIt): # Create a file clicker.rb require 'win32ole' begin   autoit =

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread kiran yajamanyam
hi, handle the popup window using autoit. install autoit software. and use the followinf code autoit = WIN32OLE.new('AutoItX3.Control') Opt(WinTitleMatchMode, 3) autoit.WinWait('Windows Internet Explorer', '', 2) autoit.WinActivate('Windows Internet Explorer') autoit.Send('{enter}') This

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread spike
Hi thanks for the reply, i've installed autoIT-v3 software but its not working. On Apr 9, 8:40 am, kiran yajamanyam kiranyajaman...@gmail.com wrote: hi, handle the popup window using autoit. install autoit software. and use the followinf code autoit = WIN32OLE.new('AutoItX3.Control')    

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread spike
I used this code but i'm getting the following error 1) Error: test_manage_resources(Manageresources): NoMethodError: undefined method `Opt' for #Manageresources:0x2b697c8 manageresource.rb:25:in `test_manage_resources' so please suggest some solution... On Apr 9, 8:40 am, kiran yajamanyam

[wtr-general] Handling popups using watir

2009-04-08 Thread spike
Hi Can somebody please help me with handling popups using Watir i'm stuck with this. I tried many suggestions but it didnt help me. I'm working on Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7. somebody suggested me to install autoIt for handling popups so i've installed autoIT-v3 also. please please..

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread kiran yajamanyam
missed this piece of code require 'win32ole' still if it wont work just comment out Opt(WinTitleMatchMode, 3) code and try. If still it wont work please send me the scenario u are testing i will try and give u the code. Regards, Kiran Y On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM, spike

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread spike
Ya it still didnt work for me Test Scenario I'm running on windows platform with IE7 I've to upload a file to the application i'm testing. to do that i'm login to the application and navigating to the respective page where i've to upload the file. I'm able to upload the file, upon successfully

[wtr-general] Re: Handling popups using watir

2009-04-08 Thread George
Didn't you just make a thread about this? On Apr 8, 9:23 pm, spike vinaykumarl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Can somebody please help me with handling popups using Watir i'm stuck with this. I tried many suggestions but it didnt help me. I'm working on Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7.

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread kiran yajamanyam
You have to give the exact caption of the window which is appearing as popup. In your case that caption of the pop up is FILE UPLOADED SUCCESSFULLY try this code: autoit = WIN32OLE.new('AutoItX3.Control') Opt(WinTitleMatchMode, 3) autoit.WinWait('FILE UPLOADED SUCCESSFULLY', '', 2)

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread spike
if i'm clicking the OK button manually its going further to do rest of the operations or els its hung with the popup On Apr 9, 10:38 am, kiran yajamanyam kiranyajaman...@gmail.com wrote: You have to give the exact caption of the window which is appearing as popup. In your case that caption of

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread kiran yajamanyam
make sure that ur caption is same (Including caps) and if autoit.Send({'enter'}) is not working try with autoit.Send({'space'}) On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, spike vinaykumarl...@gmail.com wrote: if i'm clicking the OK button manually its going further to do rest of the operations or els

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread spike
i didnt get u the popup window title is Windows Internet Explorer and the msg displayed in it is File Uploaded Successfully which one should i use inthe code.. On Apr 9, 10:38 am, kiran yajamanyam kiranyajaman...@gmail.com wrote: You have to give the exact caption of the window which is

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread spike
sorry chat is disabled in my company... On Apr 9, 10:38 am, kiran yajamanyam kiranyajaman...@gmail.com wrote: You have to give the exact caption of the window which is appearing as popup. In your case that caption of the pop up is FILE UPLOADED SUCCESSFULLY try this code: autoit =

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread kiran yajamanyam
You should use the caption only. Means Windows Internet Explorer only. Use space than enter On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:16 AM, spike vinaykumarl...@gmail.com wrote: i didnt get u the popup window title is Windows Internet Explorer and the msg displayed in it is File Uploaded Successfully

[wtr-general] Re: Regex question

2009-04-08 Thread vladimir...@hotmail.com
Thank you, ANu. It works. On Apr 8, 6:40 pm, ANu Gangavaram anuwri...@gmail.com wrote: When using regular expression with a variable, the syntax is /#{str}/ On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:30 PM, vladimir...@hotmail.com vladimir...@hotmail.com wrote: I have a string obj_url =

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread spike
use space i didnt get this..one On Apr 9, 10:48 am, kiran yajamanyam kiranyajaman...@gmail.com wrote: You should use the caption only. Means Windows Internet Explorer only. Use space than enter On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:16 AM, spike vinaykumarl...@gmail.com wrote: i didnt get u the

[wtr-general] Re: Handling popups using watir

2009-04-08 Thread spike
ya but the solutions are not working for me. On Apr 9, 10:35 am, George george.sand...@gmail.com wrote: Didn't you just make a thread about this? On Apr 8, 9:23 pm, spike vinaykumarl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Can somebody please help me with handling popups using Watir i'm stuck with

[wtr-general] Re: Error in handling popup

2009-04-08 Thread spike
Sorry sir even it is not working i've to click it manually to go further in my test. wat about this autoit i've installed autoit-v3 how is it related to watir..? On Apr 9, 10:43 am, kiran yajamanyam kiranyajaman...@gmail.com wrote: make sure that ur caption is same (Including caps) and if