[wtr-general] Re: Difference between fire_event(click) and element.click
Jarmo, Watir should issue the same events as would be generated by a real user. As we've found one's we missed, we've added them. We've never systematically identified the events that should be generated. It would be great if someone would do this. If Watir is missing specific events, that is a bug. A patch to fix the events you've found missing would be welcome. Bret Jarmo Pertman 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? Is this the reason, why at the moment I have to do something like this in my tests to work correctly: button.click button.fire_event(onclick) So, if .click method would do fire_event(onfocus) before clicking itself, then I wouldn't have to specifically call .fire_event (onclick) method itself but it would be called like normally happens with manual interaction? What about text_field and select_list onchange event? It seems that they aren't triggered by Watir either. At the moment I'm just changing text_field value and then firing onchange event manually. Why not make it to trigger automatically also? Jarmo -- Bret Pettichord CTO, WatirCraft LLC, www.watircraft.com Lead Developer, Watir, www.watir.com Blog, www.io.com/~wazmo/blog Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord Watir Training: Portland/Beaverton April 16-17 www.watircraft.com/training --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[wtr-general] Re: Difference between fire_event(click) and element.click
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 button.fire_event(onclick) So, if .click method would do fire_event(onfocus) before clicking itself, then I wouldn't have to specifically call .fire_event (onclick) method itself but it would be called like normally happens with manual interaction? What about text_field and select_list onchange event? It seems that they aren't triggered by Watir either. At the moment I'm just changing text_field value and then firing onchange event manually. Why not make it to trigger automatically also? Jarmo --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[wtr-general] Re: Difference between fire_event(click) and element.click
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 work at all, and for most of us it works quite well. Actually I believe that when the user clicks the mouse in the UI there are a series of events that the browser fires off focus, mousedown, mouseup, click These are not 'required' they are merely what happens. how the UI reacts will depend on which of these methods have been implemented for a given element in the client side javascript, and/or what kind fo element you are clicking on There's also I believe a time proximity between the mousedown and mouseup that is required for an actual click event to be issued. Brett can correct me if I'm remembering right but I seem to recall he said that Watir is firing off mouseup when the click method is used. Is this the reason, why at the moment I have to do something like this in my tests to work correctly: button.click button.fire_event(onclick) So, if .click method would do fire_event(onfocus) before clicking itself, then I wouldn't have to specifically call .fire_event (onclick) method itself but it would be called like normally happens with manual interaction? What about text_field and select_list onchange event? It seems that they aren't triggered by Watir either. At the moment I'm just changing text_field value and then firing onchange event manually. Why not make it to trigger automatically also? Perhaps because a lot of sites don't take any action when the selection in a selection list is changed, so the code works just fine in a majority of cases without doing this. OTOH in terms of fooling the system to think there's really a user out there at the other end of the mouse, it might not be a bad idea to consider firing off all the events that would normally happen when a user manually selects something from a selection list. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[wtr-general] Re: Difference between fire_event(click) and element.click
I am facing a weird problem if I click the link manually then i get the desired results but if I use link.click() then i get javascript errors. Link has href() which points to some javascript method a href=javascript:changeSelection() Any ideas? or suggestions? to fire the javascript event successfully using watir? - Angrez On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Angrez Singh ang...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can some one explain me the difference? In one of our projects if I do link.click() i get javascript errors if i do link.fire_event(onclick) nothing happens. - Angrez --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
