[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-10 Thread Chuck van der Linden
ok, here's the thing.. I don't really see a button there... damm.. I don't want to install this yahoo mail junk on my box, but it's a tempting challenge in terms of a puzzle to solve. I might just have to fire up a virtual machine (with a snapshot just so I can return it to pristine state and

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-10 Thread orde
Carl-- If you're looking for a training exercise, it might be better to start on a website that is less dynamic/AJAX-heavy. If you click Mail Classic in the header on mail.yahoo.com, you'll get the old version, which should be much easier to work with. Anyway, I took a quick peek, and this

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-10 Thread Bret Pettichord
orde wrote: Carl-- If you're looking for a training exercise, it might be better to start on a website that is less dynamic/AJAX-heavy. If you click Mail Classic in the header on mail.yahoo.com, you'll get the old version, which should be much easier to work with. +1 -- Bret

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread Chuck van der Linden
sounds like a yahoo question. what does this have to do with Watir? On Apr 9, 11:05 am, cboudreau carlboudreau...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone been able to create a new yahoo email in the new UI? Carl --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread cboudreau
I am new to this Watir, and having some difficulty figuring this out. I thought I would be starting something easy, by logging into Yahoo and then creating a new email. However I can not get the Xpath line to work. #Include the FireWatir file. require 'firewatir' #include the FireWatir

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Hwee
Check that it could be in a frame. - Original Message From: cboudreau carlboudreau...@gmail.com To: Watir General watir-general@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 11:32:56 AM Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message. I am new to this Watir

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread Al Snow
#ff.cell(:xpath, //td[contains( text, 'New')]/).click ff.link(:text, Sign Out).click ff.close Thanks, Al Snow Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alsnow Google Talk: jasnow1 Twitter: jasnow Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:32:56 -0700 Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread cboudreau
[contains( text, 'New')]/).click ff.link(:text, Sign Out).click ff.close Thanks, Al Snow Linkedin:http://www.linkedin.com/in/alsnow Google Talk: jasnow1 Twitter: jasnow Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:32:56 -0700 Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message. From

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread Chuck van der Linden
ff.close Thanks, Al Snow Linkedin:http://www.linkedin.com/in/alsnow Google Talk: jasnow1 Twitter: jasnow Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:32:56 -0700 Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message. From: carlboudreau...@gmail.com To: watir-general@googlegroups.com I

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread George
Hi there, Using the IE Developer Toolbar, I'm finding that there is an attribute associated with the New link called 'unselectable' which is set to on. This *may* mean that a script can't automatically select this control. Just a guess, though. -George On Apr 9, 11:05 am, cboudreau

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread orde
(:xpath, //td[contains( text, 'New')]/).click ff.link(:text, Sign Out).click ff.close Thanks, Al Snow Linkedin:http://www.linkedin.com/in/alsnow Google Talk: jasnow1 Twitter: jasnow Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:32:56 -0700 Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread cboudreau
Well, I am sorry to report it is still failing. However I sure do appreciate the help with this. I was tring to cut my teeth on this before I start the real project of automating a PayPay functions. But, I am just not getting it. Maybe I will try my luck on the PayPal project. Has anyone

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread Chuck van der Linden
is the login page set to remember you? or is there a recent session or cookie hanging around? I don't think it's ACTUALLY logging you in, I think the browser is just coming up that way. did you try executing these steps one by one in an IRB session? The error you are getting would indicate it

[wtr-general] Re: Yahoo mail, creating a new email message.

2009-04-09 Thread cboudreau
Thanks for your presistance on this, Line 11 is the login line, I have set Firefox to clear all personal data when exiting, and now I am seeing acurate error message related to the actual error lines. The next set of error messages is where I started with line 17 uncommented our, then I start