I'm saying that I do not have a plan on how to support modal dialog testing that will work with both IE and Firefox, and as far as I know, no one else is working on this.
Bret Lisa Crispin wrote: > As someone whose programming skills are limited, and who primarily > works as a tester, it's hard for me to understand what you're saying. > > We've been running a big Watir suite for a few years now and it has > handled our modal dialogs fairly well up to now. That took a bit of > doing but we got it stable. > > I don't know what showModalDialogs is so I need to go look that up - > would that solve our problem of being able to close the modal dialogs? > > Or are you saying modal dialogs aren't really supported? If that is > true, are these our only choices: > 1. Go back to the previous version of Watir and stay there forever, or > until modal dialog support is provided (which sounds chancy as > apparently we're the only ones using modal dialogs a lot?) > 2. Dump Watir and look for another tool - we have a huge investment in > our scripts and depend on them and I really don't want to do that. > > Am I overreacting - I just don't quite understand what you're saying. > > Thanks, > Lisa > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Bret Pettichord <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > The reason that enabled popup is in "contrib" is to indicate that > it is > unsupported code. > > I've never used Watir's modal dialog support for production testing > (except for showModalDialogs, which i've used and which IMHO has > excellent support). The support for the other modal dialogs needs work > simply for IE much less working on how to make this work > cross-platform. > Some of this code is not in contrib, although it probably should be. > > I've always found it easier to avoid dealing with modal dialogs, > so I've > never had personal motivation to work on this code. > > I've considered removing the nascent support for modal dialogs from > Watir entirely (perhaps bundling as a separate gem), to help telegraph > that this code is not being maintained or supported. Perhaps this > would > help this code find a new owner. > > Bret > > Lisa Crispin wrote: > > Hi Bret, > > Just to clarify - So for now we have to use require 'watir\ie' in > > order to require 'watir\contrib\enabled_popup', but in the next > > version, we won't have to use require 'watir\ie', correct? > > > > My next question may be ignorant - if we want to be able to run our > > scripts in firewatir as well as watir, does that mean we can't use > > this enabled_popup thing to deal with modal dialogs? In that > case, how > > DO we deal with modal dialogs? > > thanks, > > Lisa > > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Bret Pettichord > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote: > > > > > > i've added the require statement to the enabled popup script > > itself, so > > this workaround will not be required with the next version > of watir > > > > jpweston wrote: > > > Thanks for this and your explanation in the "Uninitialzied > Constant" > > > post. > > > > > > j. > > > > > > On Nov 12, 9:17 pm, Bret Pettichord <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> > wrote: > > > > > >> the solution is to add "require 'watir/ie'" to your script > > >> > > >> jpweston wrote: > > >> > > >>> After installing WATIR 1.6.2, scripts that have the > following > > line: > > >>> require 'watir/contrib/enabled_popup' are causing the > > following error: > > >>> > > >>> > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/contrib/ > > >>> enabled_popup.rb:5: uninitialized constant > > Watir::PageContainer::Win32 > > >>> (NameError) > > >>> from > > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in > > >>> `gem_original_require' > > >>> from > > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in > > >>> `require' > > >>> > > >>> Here is what I have at the top of my scripts: > > >>> > > >>> require 'test/unit' > > >>> require 'ci/reporter/rake/test_unit_loader.rb' > > >>> require 'watir' > > >>> require 'watir/testcase' > > >>> require 'watir/contrib/enabled_popup' > > >>> > > >>> class TC_sales_tests < Watir::TestCase > > >>> > > >>> include Watir > > >>> > > >>> <code> > > >>> > > >>> end > > >>> > > >>> Can someone point me toward what I am doing wrong here? > These > > scripts > > >>> worked with the version of 1.5 that I had installed. > > >>> > > >>> Thanks. > > >>> > > >>> Johnathan > > >>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Lisa Crispin > Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for > Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) > http://www.agiletester.ca > http://lisa.crispin.home.att.net > http://lisacrispin.blogspot.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. 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