(re-sending, I don't think it got sent for some reason)
Now I am able to type text into the hidden field, but after looking at the
links Chuck recommended, the code from Paul, and lots of other Googling
around, I'm still flummoxed on trying to get the event to fire.
Here is the html:
<select dojoType="dijit.form.FilteringSelect" id='advisorId'
name='advisorId' onchange="javascript:selectPlanAdvisor();">
<option value="0" selected >
No Advisor
</option>
<option value="3785" >
FERNANDEZ, KEVIN S
</option>
</select>
Here is what I've tried to try to fire the event:
ie.hidden(:id, 'advisorId').fire_event("onchange")
This returns a value of "yellow" in irb (WTF?) but does not fire the JS.
One of the Java developers here tried to help, but he's as baffled as I am.
Any other suggestions? I will have many scripts broken because of this, and
I depend on those scripts to help with our exploratory testing as well as
testing releases to the staging environment. I don't want to lose them!
thanks,
Lisa
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I'd wager it's working off keypress events. Problem is we can't
> easily fire those in watir because the .fire_event method only takes a
> single parameter (the event) and I believe to work properly keypress
> needs a parameter for the value of the key that was depressed.
>
> You might need to write your own function that executes the javascript
> fireevent function instead, similar to this item from Stackoverflow a
> year or two ago
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/602069/autocomplete-dropdown-test-with-ruby-watir
>
> Another alternative is described here
> http://zbarzone.blogspot.com/2008/08/watir-sendkeys-and-javascript.html
> and that approach might actually be better for you.
>
> To fix this 'for real' it seems we'd need to first modify .fire_event
> to allow for a second parameter, or create a new method such
> as .fire_key_event that would take two parameters. Then any other
> methods that have keypress events in them such as .set would need to
> be altered to fire the down/press/up events character by character and
> fire those events with the proper 'key' values for each character.
>
> On May 24, 11:24 am, Lisa Crispin <lisa.cris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried the log events thing, it's nice to know about that, but I don't
> see
> > anything that really looks like the JS firing. I see a lot of 'select',
> > 'click' 'keydown', 'input', 'keypress', 'keyup', none of that looks like
> > what the JS is doing with the type ahead.
> > -- LIsa
> >
> > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Željko Filipin <
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Lisa Crispin <lisa.cris...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > We are changing what used to be regular drop-down select list boxes
> to a
> > > dojo widget thingie that allows type ahead to select the item.
> >
> > > Is the page public? Or a similar page? Frameworks usually have examples
> > > somewhere online.
> >
> > > If you think the only problem is that a JavaScript event is not fired
> (by
> > > Watir), take a look at this:
> >
> > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3787555/how-to-find-out-which-java.
> ..
> >
> > > If the site is not public, but you could show it to me, contact me off
> > > list.
> >
> > > Željko
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