Re: [Wtr-general] Watir::FactoryMethods#checkboxes error

2005-07-05 Thread Paul Rogers
this was a bug that someone else reported 2 or so weeks ago. It doesnt fail for me though! But i can add a fix easily enough Paul - Original Message - From: Zeljko Filipin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2005 5:49 am Subject: [Wtr-general] Watir::FactoryMethods#checkboxes error

RE: [Wtr-general] Next release ( 1.4)

2005-07-10 Thread Paul Rogers
This looks to be the same bug that was reported a week or 2 back. Its been fixed and is checked Thanks! Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zeljko Filipin Sent: 07 July 2005 04:25 To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: RE:

RE: [Wtr-general] Watir::FactoryMethods#file_fields

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Rogers
I see this in my one: Im not sure when it was added, I have watir.rb 1.194 # This is the main method for accessing a file field. Usually an input type = file HTML tag. # * how - symbol - how we access the field , :index, :id, :name etc # * what - string, int or re ,

RE: [Wtr-general] strange install error

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Rogers
homeDrive is probably nil. I think that comes from an environment variable. I think this needs to change anyway, recently I had watir install to a network drive, as the users home path was set to be k: I imagine most people would want to install to c: - rather than the place where the HomeDrive

RE: [Wtr-general] Inserting variable name in string

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Rogers
You're close! New_string = 'abcdef#{var1}jklmnop' -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Torres, Ben (HQP) Sent: 27 July 2005 11:36 To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: [Wtr-general] Inserting variable name in string Right now, I am doing

RE: [Wtr-general] Javascript not running during WATIR testing

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Rogers
Are these messages fired by the onBlur or onChange events on a text field? If so Bret has fixed the problem and it will be in the next release. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander, Kim (Kim) Sent: 27 July 2005 11:58 To:

RE: [Wtr-general] can't run googlesearch.rb successfully

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Rogers
Well, it works for me too! Whats the windows/IE version on the other machine? I think fireEvent was added in IE 5.5 Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2005 20:00 To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject:

RE: [Wtr-general] Watir::FactoryMethods#file_fields

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Rogers
file_field, but I need file_fields (plural). :) Zeljko -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Rogers Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:20 PM To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: RE: [Wtr-general] Watir::FactoryMethods#file_fields I see this in my

RE: [Wtr-general] Script non-responsive

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Rogers
I had the same problem with the controller I used before Watir. If I remember it was caused by the page loading faster than we could detect, so the wait method is still waiting, as it doesnt realise its already loaded. This was one of the reasons I wanted to move to an event based system ( which

RE: [Wtr-general] (possibly) Introducing WatirMaker

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Rogers
Title: Message Way cool! I couldnt see anywhere - what language is it written in? Paul -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott HanselmanSent: 27 July 2005 04:43To: wtr-general@rubyforge.orgSubject: [Wtr-general]

RE: [Wtr-general] Watir::FactoryMethods#file_fields

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Rogers
#file_fields Thanks, I also have file_field, but I need file_fields (plural). :) Zeljko -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Rogers Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:20 PM To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: RE: [Wtr-general] Watir

RE: [Wtr-general] RE: image.to_s

2005-07-27 Thread Paul Rogers
I added alt as a property and included it in the to_s As to why the typs= 'image' is available. It's a standard property from IE on input controls, like button, etc. I just continued it on. Maybe this is something that should be removed? At some point I think we want to add a elements iterator

RE: [Wtr-general] wair for start explorer to load

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Rogers
I think this will be fixed in the next release. There was a bug in attach where it wouldn't wait Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 July 2005 21:51 To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: [Wtr-general] wair for

RE: [Wtr-general] RE: image.to_s

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Rogers
' Subject: RE: [Wtr-general] RE: image.to_s Thanks again. About type: image - after I thought about it, I also think it should not be removed. Zeljko -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Rogers Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 12:45 AM To: wtr

RE: [Wtr-general] RE: image.to_s

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Rogers
This was the case, and Ive added a unit test for disabled images. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Rogers Sent: 28 July 2005 10:52 To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: RE: [Wtr-general] RE: image.to_s Ive just looked

RE: [Wtr-general] Script non-responsive

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Rogers
I just tried search.aol.com and I get a similar thing, even when attaching to it ie=Watir::IE.attach(:title , /S/) and it just hangs. Stack trace after a ctrl C IRB::Abort: abort then interrupt!! from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:81:in `irb_abort' from

RE: [Wtr-general] Script non-responsive

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Rogers
This page at aol has several iframes that get updated with the latest 'hot searches' My guess is that the problem is something to do with these. I altered the wait method, and I got my problm sorted - maybe you could try this and see if it works for you? Paul ## wait with a maximum wait time

RE: [Wtr-general] Modal Dialog with Select lists

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Rogers
Title: Message Watir cant access these modal dialogs, various people have tried diferent things. Maybe you can do something with auto-it - I personally havent tried. If you get some code working, please post it to the list Paul -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Wtr-general] RE: image.to_s

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Rogers
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Rogers Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:06 PM To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: RE: [Wtr-general] RE: image.to_s This was the case, and Ive added a unit test for disabled images. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [Wtr-general] RE: Click OK button on Popup Dialog?

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Rogers
Ive been doing the same. I posted some code to deal with file Requesters around the 15th June. It seems this one needs to be in a separate process. I'll need to do some more testing to be really sure. I think there may also be differences between win xp and win 2k Paul -Original Message-

RE: [Wtr-general] radio button support

2005-07-29 Thread Paul Rogers
Sorry, I meant where you unpack the tarball, there should be a subdir called rdoc Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shao Kang Tat Sent: 29 July 2005 11:34 To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] radio button support

RE: [Wtr-general] radio button support

2005-07-29 Thread Paul Rogers
In a previous release some one else reported errors on radio buttons, something to do with value. I had never been able to reporuce, but the latest refactoring from bret has a rescue around the value, so it should return an empty string. What os, browser version are you using? Paul

RE: [Wtr-general] what is tarball?

2005-07-29 Thread Paul Rogers
Title: Message the tarball is a download of the latest code. ITs whats currently in cvs. There may be changes/bug fixes when the release is done. And the docs wont have been included. Since there is no compling etc it should generally be safe to use. There have been times when code that

Re: [Wtr-general] RE: file_field.set

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Rogers
the title is the tooltip for the checkbox. We support this on other objects, so it should be simple to make it work on checkboxes too input type=checkbox title = 'a tooltip' Paul - Original Message - From: Bret Pettichord [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, August 1, 2005 10:21 pm Subject:

Re: [Wtr-general] Pop up handling improvements

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Rogers
. Bret At 01:31 PM 7/27/2005, Paul Rogers wrote: The scripts that handle pop ups are in the unit test directory jscriptExtraAlert.rb jscriptExtraConfirmCancel.rb jscriptExtraConfirmOk.rb jscriptPushButton.rb I suggest we move these to a better location - The C:\ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby

RE: [Wtr-general] I have a couple of questions...

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Rogers
calls, what do they return if it can't find the item ? or if it finds multiple? j. On 8/2/05, Paul Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. no - you must specify the frame, like ie.frame(:index,2).link(:id,'blah').click 2. yes, but you have to use the Autoit tool to help you, its not too hard

Re: [Wtr-general] identify image links by their url?

2005-08-03 Thread Paul Rogers
yep, but its best to use a reg exp, otherwise you need the full path: ie.image(:src , /some_pic.gif/).click Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=_=_NextPart_001_01C5980C.CA4F3156 --_=_NextPart_001_01C5980C.CA4F3156

Re: RE: [Wtr-general] Javascript onClick

2005-08-03 Thread Paul Rogers
most watir objects support a click method, so ie.image(:id, /pic/).click should do what you want ( replace image with what ever element you need, radio, text_field etc) Paul - Original Message - From: Zeljko Filipin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 7:46 am Subject:

Re: RE: [Wtr-general] I have a couple of questions...

2005-08-03 Thread Paul Rogers
] Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 2:35 am Subject: RE: [Wtr-general] I have a couple of questions... At 10:33 PM 8/2/2005, Paul Rogers wrote: I want to add a frame iterator object as soon as I get the chance: Ie.frames.each {|f| } When that's, there, it would be simple for you to add

Re: [Wtr-general] Question: Javascript/CSS onClick?

2005-08-03 Thread Paul Rogers
a td should have a click method, so if you can figure out its index you can do ie.table(:index,t)[row][col].click You'll have to fixure out the row and col values and the value for t It would be better if you can get an id added to that cell Paul - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

Re: [Wtr-general] Question: Javascript/CSS onClick?

2005-08-03 Thread Paul Rogers
isnt this already supported for spans and divs? Paul - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 10:30 am Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Question: Javascript/CSS onClick? It would be better if you can get an id added to that cell Or if we supported

RE: [Wtr-general] RE: Cannot Identify Cancel

2005-08-04 Thread Paul Rogers
Regards, Fred Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:12:01 -0600 From: Paul Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Wtr-general] Cannot Identify Cancel To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir::Form questions

2005-08-09 Thread Paul Rogers
If your html looks like this: form name=abc1 method=post action =/do/something input type=text name = the_text_field /form you would use a form like this: ie.form(:name , 'abc1').text_field(:name , 'the_text_field').set('567') There are more examples in the form_test.rb unit tests what

Re: RE: [Wtr-general] New, improved support for popup dialogs

2005-08-09 Thread Paul Rogers
Bret, Im assuming you've named remote_eval that based on what it is doing. I dont find it a very intuitive name. Maybe something like one of these: ie.execute_command( ) ie.run_command() ie.delayed_execution() # is it actually delayed?? THis does look really good, thanks for doing it. This had

[Wtr-general] onBlur

2005-08-10 Thread Paul Rogers
Bret, your recent addition of the onBlur event to text boxes got me thinking. Does IE fire the onBlur event already with out us adding it, if you explicitly set focus to another item. Eg, using the code BEFORE the addition ( I havent tried this ) ie.text_field(:index,1).set('hi') # does the

RE: [Wtr-general] Help read data in table with Row Span

2005-08-10 Thread Paul Rogers
I took a quick look at this, and I don't know how we would do it. Using my example table below, The table itself only has 2 cells on the row after the rowspan. Even other methods like the one below only show it has having 2 cells, I guess cos in reality it does only have 2 cells. irb(main):011:0

Re: [Wtr-general] Any way to drag items to other items?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Rogers
there is some basic support - for dragging text from one text field and dropping it on another. You could probably use that as a basis for writing some more advanced features. I doubt Bret or myself will get enough time to do it in the near future Paul Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

Re: [Wtr-general] RE: WATIR is slow ???

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Rogers
if you dont care about javascript events, you can just use ie.text_field(:index,1).value='123' # it might be .value(123) I cant remember You can also use the -f switch or change the typing speed value the original code is there to make sure that all the javascript events ( keypress, keyup ,

Re: [Wtr-general] Attaching to an embedded browser

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Rogers
the handle is not -1. Thanks, Anna. On 8/15/05, Paul Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: winclicker contains some very scary, badly written code. Id try to avoid it if possible. You might be able to attach to an embedded browser by using attach - or possibly a modified form

Re: [Wtr-general] Returning a string

2005-08-16 Thread Paul Rogers
you can use ie.span(:index,xxx).text it would be better if your developers addeda an id, then you can use ie.span(:id,'request_id').text Paul Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=_=_NextPart_001_01C5A29C.24B6B1F5

RE: [Wtr-general] Detecting a closed IE

2005-08-16 Thread Paul Rogers
You could trap the exception that's thrown, but that could get kind of ugly. Especially as its probably a weird OLE exception. It seems like we need a closed? Method on ie. It would be trivial to do it when watir closes a window, but Im not sure I know how we would do it if the window is closed

Re: RE: [SPAM] - Re: [Wtr-general] Returning a string - Email found in subject

2005-08-17 Thread Paul Rogers
Tabora, Quality Assurance BrandMuscle, Inc. P: 216.454.2010 Cell: 216-577-2835 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Rogers Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 4:38 PM To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: [SPAM] - Re

RE: [Wtr-general] next steps

2005-08-21 Thread Paul Rogers
Comments in-line, preceeded by Paul- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bret Pettichord Sent: 17 August 2005 23:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] next steps At 05:46 PM 8/17/2005, Paul Rogers wrote: some other things

Re: [Wtr-general] How can I access an object a Label points to?

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Rogers
yes, that should definitely be there. Can you add it to the tracker so it doesnt get forgotten? Paul - Original Message - From: Boyt, Darrel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:26 am Subject: [Wtr-general] How can I access an object a Label points to? I would like to

Re: [Wtr-general] Question...

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Rogers
I originally wrote the methods using camelCase. the prefferred ruby way is train_case. The camelCase ones will get deprecated, so use train_case Paul - Original Message - From: Jeff Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:31 am Subject: [Wtr-general] Question... I've

Re: RE: [Wtr-general] Connecting to a second window

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Rogers
In your test, I dont see you click the link - you seem to also display 'goto link failed' before going to it. Maybe try this begin statusMessage=Click Link aboutlink=$ie.link(:text,About).click statusMessage=attaching to new window

Re: [Wtr-general] How to open right-click context menu?

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Rogers
you can probably do it usint AutoIt, but I dont think there is a way to do it directly into IE through watir Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_Part_417_993946.1125435757337 --=_Part_417_993946.1125435757337 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

[Wtr-general] Running tests in source code order

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Rogers
Here is some code that runs tests in source code order. I pretty certain Bret posted how to do this ( by overriding the suite method) but he didnt provide any code. This only works if there is one class that does tests in the file, but Im sure someone can figure out how to fix that # #

Re: [Wtr-general] Performance Testing with Watir

2005-10-27 Thread Paul Rogers
Watir already has a down_load_time method: Ie.goto('www.google.com') Puts ie.down_load_time I think this works when ever a page loads Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Kelly Sent: 27 October 2005 05:04 To:

Re: [Wtr-general] getting the HTTP status

2005-10-27 Thread Paul Rogers
Watir will raise WatirNavigationException if it receives certain urls - it does a regexp on the url looking for shdoclc.dll ( if I remember correctly) This is the exception that gets raised irb(main):013:0 ie.goto('ggg.cddfdom') Watir::Exception::NavigationException: Cannot find server or DNS

Re: [Wtr-general] CookieManager::WatirHelper ... ???

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Rogers
I recently went to use this and had problems too. I have a fix, I'll see if I can get it in. Wont be this week though Paul Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_Part_4823_25613369.113080518 --=_Part_4823_25613369.113080518 Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: [Wtr-general] iexplore process remains after closing IE?

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Rogers
. Sorry if it's a silly question, but I'm not getting it... -Chris On 11/5/05, Paul Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this require 'Win32API' hWnd = 985158# use the hWnd for your process # pid is a dword pid= * 32 thread= Win32API.new(user32, GetWindowThreadProcessId, 'IP

Re: [Wtr-general] Last but not least Re: iexplore process remains after closing IE?

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Rogers
, I got it now-- What's the syntax to actually close the browser using the pid/wHnd? -Chris On 11/7/05, Paul Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you'll need to get the hWnd of the browser first require 'Win32API' ie = IE.new ie.goto www.google.com hWnd = ie.ie.hWnd pid= * 32

Re: [Wtr-general] Controlling threads testing speed

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Rogers
hi Carl, if you can post some repeatable code/html unit tests that really helps getting things fixed. The pop up handling has not been very good in watir, and we need to improve it. Paul - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, November 7, 2005 1:55 pm Subject:

Re: [Wtr-general] How to set a checkbox that has no id but has twovalues attribute

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Rogers
Title: Message ie.checkbox(:name , 'notype[]' , '9.16') should work the third argument is a string value that is the value of the radio button or check box Paul -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff WoodSent: 10 November

[Wtr-general] Removing cookies

2005-11-22 Thread Paul Rogers
Here is the code to get rid of cookies. Sorry it took so long, had to get permission, and then I kept forgetting It was writtern on Win XP - the paths maybe different for win 2000 It may be possible to add a reg exp or string to limit the domain that cookies are deleted Thanks to Jason Scammell

Re: [Wtr-general] Is there a way to input data into a Readonly text field in watir?

2005-11-22 Thread Paul Rogers
you should be able to use the value= method using the textfields.html from the watir_bonus\unittests\html dir ie.text_field(:name , 'readOnly').value='test' seems to work Paul Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0-1983776644-1132720426=:63063 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Re: [Wtr-general] How to check maxlength validation for a textfield using watir?

2005-11-24 Thread Paul Rogers
are you using text_field(..).set('a string') or text_field(..).value='a string' set should honour the max length value of the text field ( as specified in the html) .value= will put the whole string in Paul Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0-1924482286-1132893504=:77538

Re: [Wtr-general] [ANN] The new Watir wiki: http://watir.net

2005-11-27 Thread Paul Rogers
let me know when you are happy with it and i'll try and figure out how to pioint watir.com at it The main page has a black block with blue and some other colored text that is very difficult to read Paul - Original Message - From: Sy Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, November 27,

Re: [Wtr-general] wait

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Rogers
the long and short names are the windows paths long name is something like c:\program files\apache group\apache the short name is the windows 8.3 version of it, probaly something like c:\program~p2\Apache~1\ Its done this way to avoid problems with the spaces in the long file names Paul

[Wtr-general] drag drop

2006-02-07 Thread Paul Rogers
I think watir can currently do something like ie.text_field(:id, 'foo').dragContentsTo( :id, 'foo2') I may have a need to do some testing on more advanced drag drop so I will take a look at doing this if i get a chance. I guess the demo here http://demo.script.aculo.us/shop is the sort of

[Wtr-general] fire-fox and mozilla

2006-02-13 Thread Paul Rogers
Several people have been looking at this - has anyone made any progress? Is any way better than another? I may have some time available soon Paul ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

Re: [Wtr-general] Script hangs and does nothing

2006-02-22 Thread Paul Rogers
some of your ie.goto(...) have spaces before the http like ' http://...' For me, that causes the browser to go to a search page Paul Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_Part_8777_7782702.1140663863455 --=_Part_8777_7782702.1140663863455 Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: [Wtr-general] W3C validation problems

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Rogers
If I remember correctly, the html you will see using that method is Ies version of the html, not what it has actually received. So if you right click and then do a view source, and then in watir do a ie.document.body.parentelement.outerhtml You are likely to see different things I don’t think

[Wtr-general] [ANN] RuMBA

2006-04-29 Thread Paul Rogers
Im pleased to announce Ive started work on RuMBA - Ruby Multiple Browser Accessor. What Is It? RuMBA will allow a watir like script to access muliple browser types - IE, FireFox etc. It will work cross platform, allowing linux and mac to be supported. Ive done enough work to think that it

Re: [Wtr-general] hacked goto() almost working, any ideas? Re: anyone ever hacked Watir to do Basic Authentication?

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Rogers
isnt there a method in the winclickers to get rid of the security box? - Original Message - From: Cain, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 4, 2006 7:57 am Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] hacked goto() almost working, any ideas? Re: anyone ever hacked Watir to do Basic Authentication?

[Wtr-general] rumba

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Rogers
Thanks to everyone who replied regarding rumba. Apologies for not getting back sooner, but Ive had a busy week. Id forgotten about the ruby runner for selenium, so I think I will take another look at that before I do much more with rumba. I have set up the rubyforge project, but havent got a

Re: [Wtr-general] Order of execution for ruby tests with test/unit

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Rogers
some time ago, maybe August, I posted some code that would do the test in source code order, it created the TestSuite by reading the file first. You can also name your methods like test_010 test_020 etc if you use rspec ( rspec.rubyforge.org ) it runs in source order, and provides a very nice

Re: [Wtr-general] Order of execution for ruby tests with test/unit

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Rogers
test::unit does a sort on the method names. so test_a comes before test_b I cant remember what happens with test_a and test_A Hi George, it's been my experience that the unit tests run in what appears to be an alphanumerically-ascending order. It's been a while since I've looked at it, but I

Re: [Wtr-general] newbie help

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Rogers
I think that sth contains the number of rows returned fro mthe query if you change your second line from sth.execute(SELECT * FROM DATA).fetch do |row| to dbh.execute(SELECT * FROM DATA).fetch do |row| It might be what you want Paul - Original Message - From: Eric Nachman [EMAIL

Re: [Wtr-general] newbie help

2006-05-30 Thread Paul Rogers
, It did not work, any other ideas. It like it does not recognize the execute, or fetch commands.. e --- Paul Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that sth contains the number of rows returned fro mthe query if you change your second line from sth.execute(SELECT * FROM DATA).fetch do

Re: [Wtr-general] Proposal for supporting multiple attributes

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Rogers
xpath is also very unreadable. As a side note, one of my clients has recognized the value of good html. When something is missing an id , we add an hour, per build,per testcasefor manual testing of the application. It something that is now easy for the developers and project managers to see

Re: [Wtr-general] Help! My database query works, my logic does not...

2006-07-10 Thread Paul Rogers
if ( $testval = $search ) should be if ( $testval == $search ) there may be other problems too - do you need to specify which row column the value comes from? ( I cant remeber how this works off the top of my head) ie - perhaps it also needs to be, where [0][0] is the row and column number

Re: [Wtr-general] on vacation

2006-07-16 Thread Paul Rogers
, but like the fact that these require manual intervention, because it probably makes people think twice about long posts in the future. Would anyone be interested in helping to moderate the list? Paul Rogers is also set up as a moderator, but I know he sometimes has trouble directly

Re: [Wtr-general] FreeTextBox Watir

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Rogers
Ive never tried to test one, but Ive looked at similar things for inclusion in some projects Ive been working on. They are normally just a text area, so: ie.text_field(:index,1).set('Hello, world) should probably do it Paul Hi listfolks. Has anyone had to try to test a page that is

[Wtr-general] german chars in the browser

2006-08-01 Thread Paul Rogers
my web page contains Geben Sie Ihre Telefonnummer (tags�ber) In case it doesnt show correctly, near the end is a u with 2 dots above it. Im sure there is a correct term, but Im no linguist. If I do: ie.text I get = Geben Sie Ihre Telefonnummer (tags\374ber Can any one suggest a work around,

Re: [Wtr-general] interacting with AJAX drag and drop

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Rogers
I dont think there is anything in watir to do it at the moment. I started looking into this, but the functionality was dropped from the app I was testing. It may come back again, in which case I will once again take a look at adding this functionality into watir. Paul Could anyone

Re: [Wtr-general] How to check for opened IE windows?

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Rogers
some time back I posted a show_windows method I have no idea when it might have been though. Paul - Original Message - From: Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:55 AM Subject: [Wtr-general] How to check for opened IE windows? Hi, I

Re: [Wtr-general] Using file_field

2006-08-22 Thread Paul Rogers
the browser wont let you put the filename into the field directly - its a security thing. Ive always used winclicker or autoit to fill in the pop op Paul Im trying to upload a file with Watir and I have an input file and cant seem to get it to work. Ive searched the mailing lists and it

Re: [Wtr-general] OT: more on testing email

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Rogers
Where would this be used in a ruby system? I didnt read thoroughly but I thought this mocked out the smtp server for a java system. Is your web app written in ruby, so a ruby version of this can become a mock in your app? But saying that, I do agree it would be a great thing to do Paul -

Re: [Wtr-general] I am a newb

2006-09-01 Thread Paul Rogers
thats a link, so ie.link(:id , "sessionDialogCancel" ).flash is what you need - Original Message - From: Chris McMahon To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] I am a newb On 9/1/06, David

Re: [Wtr-general] using Watir for single-user performance testing

2006-09-13 Thread Paul Rogers
Watir has this very powerful, but I think, little understood feature, which I called an error checker. You can create some code that gets called on each page load, kind of like this ( I dont have time to test this right now though ) down_load_timer = Proc.new(){ |ie| log_to_file Page Title:

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir presentation review?

2006-09-19 Thread Paul Rogers
when Ive done these presentations to developers, Ive shown how watir can be used for testing on dynamic and ajax enabled sites. Its also quite cool when you use irb/watir to show the content in these situations, which otherwise can be hard to debug - Original Message - From:

Re: [Wtr-general] Image Capture Package?

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Rogers
a long time back I found some ruby that did this, but it didnt work quite correctly. Marco Brasse recently sent an update. Its below. I think it only does bitmap. require 'dl/import'module ScreenCapture extend DL::Importable dlload "kernel32.dll","user32.dll","gdi32.dll" HORZRES = 8

Re: [Wtr-general] Managing the Watir Project -- Wikipedia entry

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Rogers
also, for the download example, it is also possible to do this ie.goto('http://google.com') puts ie.downloadtime# check the method name, it might be downLoadTime or down_load_time ie.text_field(:index,1).set('pickaxe') ie.button(:index,1).click puts ie.downloadtime# check the method

Re: [Wtr-general] Excuting Javascript Function from Watir or Ruby?

2006-09-28 Thread Paul Rogers
you can probably use ie.div(:class, "buttonMed_off").click - Original Message - From: Park, Chong SuhX To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:45 AM Subject: [Wtr-general] Excuting _javascript_ Function from Watir or Ruby? Hi,

Re: [Wtr-general] Inputing text into a textarea that is containedwithin a div

2006-10-02 Thread Paul Rogers
shouldnt it be iframe src = iframeTest1.html name = senderFrame id = sf width = 300 height = 300 now the test: def test_iframes_id #VALIDATE THAT WE CAN GET THERE AT ALL x = $ie.frame(:index,1).button(:name,'sendIt').click assert_equal(,x) #VALIDATE THAT WE CAN GET THERE VIA id x =

Re: [Wtr-general] How do you access an image that doesn't have img in the HTML tag?

2006-10-05 Thread Paul Rogers
a reg exp is better here ie.button( :src, /SelectRow1.gif/ ).click - Original Message - From: Dave Munns [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] How do you access an image that doesn't have img in the HTML

Re: [Wtr-general] IE.GoTo - Can You Set A Timeout or an Idle?

2006-10-12 Thread Paul Rogers
try this http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wtr-general/2005-July/002695.html - Original Message - From: Norm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] IE.GoTo - Can You Set A Timeout or an Idle? Paul, I searched

Re: [Wtr-general] Outlook Access

2006-10-13 Thread Paul Rogers
 http://rubyforge.org/projects/gmailutils/ - Original Message - From: Zeljko Filipin To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:49 AM Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Outlook Access On 10/12/06, Paul Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Wtr-general] IE.GoTo - Can You Set A Timeout or an Idle?

2006-10-13 Thread Paul Rogers
One part of the argument is that we want to be able to control how long we wait outside of watir, ie wrapping the call in a timeout block. That works fine, but you need to put it everywhere. Adding the timeout in the wait method, stops you having to do that. And, if we are smart, we can switch

Re: [Wtr-general] Memory access errors

2006-10-13 Thread Paul Rogers
can you post the error you get? ALso, what happens when yo click the link? If you go somewhere else, are you still in the loop, trying to access things that re not there any more? ie change .click to .flash and see if it works - then the problem is you are trying to access things that no longer

Re: [Wtr-general] Memory access errors

2006-10-16 Thread Paul Rogers
I use a treeview control that I found on the internet, and that occasionally causes ie to crash, if I remeber,in a similar way to this. I think there are some bugs in IE with dynamically generated tables. Its a long time since I investigated but could be the same issue Paul -

Re: [Wtr-general] downloadtime and render_time

2006-10-17 Thread Paul Rogers
see what I can do. Paul - Original Message - From: Bret Pettichord [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:28 am Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] downloadtime and render_time Paul Rogers wrote: I had a discussion today that got me thinking about the download time

Re: [Wtr-general] downloadtime and render_time

2006-10-17 Thread Paul Rogers
, October 17, 2006 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] downloadtime and render_time Paul Rogers wrote: I think IE separates the download time and render time for each page. I always thought that for frames we needed something like ie.download_time # time for everything, all frames download, render

Re: [Wtr-general] screenshots

2006-10-23 Thread Paul Rogers
that module is kind of fragile. There is some better code I posted about a month ago. Paul - Original Message - From: Cain, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:24 am Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] screenshots Take a look at the screen capture module in the

Re: [Wtr-general] same id elements

2006-10-25 Thread Paul Rogers
in one of the apps I work on, we had a problem where the java framework would sometimes put the same id on 2 or more elements. We wrote an error checker that simply lloked for duplicate ids, and raised an exception if one was found. I guess i have the advantage that the developers are willing

Re: [Wtr-general] Is there any way to get all the scr's of images?

2006-11-04 Thread Paul Rogers
probably easiest to use a reg exp for this youd have to create the reg exp with care, as there may be white space and different types of quotes, but this might do it ie.html.scan(/src\s*=\s*'(.*)?') that says, find src followed by either space or no space followed by equals followed by a

[Wtr-general] IE7

2006-11-05 Thread Paul Rogers
Here are the release notes for IE7 from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> there is a new document status for xmlhttprequests ( ie ajax ) so it should be possible to check for this There are details on tabs, but I couldnt find any mention of how to change to a new tab

Re: [Wtr-general] Recover from IE crash?

2006-11-06 Thread Paul Rogers
I use a library that draws a treeview in javascript. This has also caused IE to crash. I think it is something to do with dynamic tables Paul - Original Message - From: Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:25 PM Subject: Re:

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