Thanks for the ideas, Tiffany.  Actually, I just tried going back to
IE6 and that strategy worked.  A set of 9 scripts ran cleanly.  I see
that I'm three releases behind on watir.  I may need to upgrade to
1.6.5 and see how that works with IE7 and/or IE8.

On Nov 19, 11:43 am, Tiffany Fodor <tcfo...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi Steve!
>
> I've noticed that when I copy multiple lines of code into irb, all but
> the last are processed and then I have to hit enter to process the
> last line of code.
>
> Have you verified that you can issue just the click for 'DDD' on it's
> own in irb?  Is it possible that some javascript has been added to the
> link that you need to fire?
>
> Just some wild guesses - hope this helps!
>
> -Tiffany
>
> On Nov 18, 5:30 pm, Steve Hamlett <shaml...@twia.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm using irb to progress thru a series of html pages like so:
>
> > ie.link(:text,'AAA').click
> > ie.link(:text,'BBB').click
> > ie.link(:text,'CCC').click
> > ie.link(:text,'DDD').click
>
> > Each click brings up a new page.  When I click on 'DDD', the expected
> > page comes up but the click method seems to get hung.  That is, I
> > never get a new prompt in irb.
>
> > I see similar behavior if I run the script in Scite.  The expected
> > page comes up from the final 'click' command (with no error message)
> > but the script is hung at that point.
>
> > I developed this script using Scite maybe 3 or 4 months ago and it
> > worked fine then.  I was running IE6 at the time.  I've tried it with
> > both IE7 and IE8 today and had the same problem with both.  This is
> > the first time I've tried to run it since I developed it.  I haven't
> > gone back to try it with IE6 yet.
>
> > My ruby version is 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287).
> > My watir version is 1.6.2.
>
> > Does this issue sound familiar to anyone?
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