@ie.modal_dialog.title() gives me the correct title of the modal dialog box when I run it from IRB I am using IE7
David On Nov 2, 2:16 pm, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> wrote: > I did a little research on this issue. There does appear to be a bug > using this code with IE8 -- the title changed from "Web Page Dialog" to > "Webpage Dialog" and the Watir code has not been updated to handle this. > However, rereading your original post makes me think you are using IE7. > Can you confirm this? > > You said that > > @ie.modal_dialog.title() > > works. What does it say the title is? > > Bret > > > > david wrote: > > I run some preliminary commands in irb and pop up the modal dialog > > successfully; but when I try and exercise the dialog it won't work. > > > irb(main):009:0> @modal = @ie.modal_dialog(:title, 'Batch Update') > > Watir::Exception::NoMatchingWindowFoundException: Modal Dialog with > > title Batch > > Update not found. Timeout = 2.0 > > from C:/Work/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/ > > watir/modal_dialog.rb:51:in `locate' > > from C:/Work/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/ > > watir/modal_dialog.rb:86:in `initialize' > > from C:/Work/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/ > > watir/ > > container.rb:186:in `new' > > from C:/Work/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/ > > watir/container > > .rb:186:in `modal_dialog' > > from (irb):9 > > > What also puzzles me is why I get an error as follows > > irb(main):011:0> @modal = @ie.modal_dialog(:title, /Batch/) > > ArgumentError: Title value must be String > > > when I had no issue attaching to the IE instance using same syntax > > irb(main):002:0> @ie = Watir::IE.attach(:title, /Mainet/) > > > And lastly when I execute > > > @ie.modal_dialog.title() > > > that works! > > > David > > > On Oct 30, 8:50 am, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> wrote: > > >> Could you try > > >> @ie.modal_dialog(:title, 'Batch Update') > > >> david wrote: > > >>> Have a section of code that is waiting for a modal dialog to appear > >>> which is visible with the title ‘'Batch Update -- Web Page Dialog’ > > >>> modal = @ie.modal_dialog(:title, 'Batch Update -- Web Page Dialog') > >>> modal.wait > >>> modal.button(:value,'Yes').click_no_wait > > >>> However the dialog is not being found by title. > > >>> Is there a problem with findingmodal_dialogby title? Is there > >>> another way to do this? I am using Ruby 1.8.6 > > >>> I tried just modal = @ie.modal_dialog > >>> which should work according to the API documentation but I see there > >>> is a problem with this approach, even though there can be only one > >>> modal dialog at a time on screen and this seems like an ideal way to > >>> attach to a modal dialog. I get the following error: > > >>> IE#modal_dialognot supported with the current version of Ruby > >>> (1.8.6). > >>> Seehttp://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-2fordetails. > >>> undefined method `connect_unknown' for WIN32OLE:Class > > >>> David > > >> -- > >> Bret Pettichord > >> Lead Developer, Watir,www.watir.com > >> Blog,www.io.com/~wazmo/blog > >> Twitter,www.twitter.com/bpettichord > > -- > Bret Pettichord > Lead Developer, Watir,www.watir.com > Blog,www.io.com/~wazmo/blog > Twitter,www.twitter.com/bpettichord --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
