Which version of IE were you running in XP?

Does this apply?
"Protected Mode in Vista IE7"
(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/02/09/528963.aspx)


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Jarmo <[email protected]> wrote:

> By the way, I have noticed similar behaviour. This seems to only
> happen in win7, since in XP i have all those tests passing. I'm not
> sure if it is a test fault or something with the actual code itself. I
> haven't had any problems attaching to windows in real situation by
> using 1.6.5 on win7.
>
> And attach code hasn't changed between 1.6.5 and now so i'd bet more
> on a strange test. If you manage to make it pass under win7 then don't
> be afraid to make a pull request :)
>
> Jarmo
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Robert Pyron <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Here is output from a unit test (much stuff elided):
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >> Loaded suite
> >> C:/work/watir/commonwatir/unittests/attach_to_existing_window_test
> >> ...
> >>
> >>   1) Error:
> >> test_existing_window(TC_ExistingWindow):
> >> Watir::Exception::NoMatchingWindowFoundException: Unable to locate a
> >> window with title of (?i-mx:buttons)
> >>     C:/work/watir/watir/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:306:in
> >> `attach_browser_window'
> >>     ...
> >>
> >>
> C:/work/watir/commonwatir/unittests/attach_to_existing_window_test.rb:46:in
> >> `test_existing_window'
> >>
> >>   2) Error:
> >> test_working_back_and_forth(TC_ExistingWindow):
> >> Watir::Exception::NoMatchingWindowFoundException: Unable to locate a
> >> window with url of (?-mix:buttons1.html)
> >>     C:/work/watir/watir/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:306:in
> >> `attach_browser_window'
> >>     ...
> >>
> >>
> C:/work/watir/commonwatir/unittests/attach_to_existing_window_test.rb:70:in
> >> `test_working_back_and_forth'
> >>
> >> 4 tests, 8 assertions, 0 failures, 2 errors
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The setup method for the unit test class (TC_ExistingWindow) calls
> >         uses_page "pass.html"
> >
> > 'uses_page' looks like this
> >         def uses_page page # only works with IE
> >             new_url = self.class.html_root + page
> >             browser.goto new_url unless browser.url == new_url
> >         end
> >
> > Getting back to the unit test, every test that tries to attach calls
> > 'open_several_windows', which looks like this:
> >         def open_several_windows
> >             ["buttons1.html", "whitespace.html"].each do |file|
> >                 @browsers << Browser.start(self.class.html_root + file)
> >             end
> >         end
> >
> > In other words, there are different ways to open the test windows.
> >
> > Now look at 'attach_browser_window how, what'. This method calls
> > 'IE._find how, what', which has the following code:
> >         IE.each do |ie|
> >             window = ie.ie
> >
> > In my testing, 'IE.each' only gives one window, for URL "pass.html".
> > The other windows are not in this list. Thus, every test that actually
> > tries to attach to a browser window fails.
> >
> > Windows 7 32-bit, running as administrator
> > Watir 1.6.5, development version from github.com
> > Ruby 1.8.7
> >
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