In case anyone is interested, I believe I've found a way around this. If
you right click on the link you can send an "A" to the browser to select
the "Save As" option bypassing that first window entirely.
On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 5:00:43 PM UTC-4, Dan wrote:
>
> So, I've been struggling with getting IE to consistently work when the
> window is not focused and I'm downloading a file. I dream of the day where
> this can be handled like Chrome or Firefox. It lead me to think about how
> I could use alert for this purpose.
>
> I can get the text from the alert and dismiss it. However I can't seem to
> click the save button.
>
> b.alert.text
> "Do you want to open or save this file?"
>
> irb(main):027:0> b.alert.ok
> => nil
>
> If I try to send an 's' which is the keyboard shortcut to save the file I
> get the below error.
> b.alert.set("s")
>
> Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ElementNotVisibleError: Modal dialog did not
> have a text box - maybe it was an alert
>
> Interestingly enough, on the 'Save as' window I can set the file name and
> then send an :enter to save the file where I need it to go.
>
> Anyone gone down this road and found it workable?
>
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