OK, I'm restarting this thread, under a new subject, because it already has become hopelessly confused.
Charley said something about showModalDialog, and then Zeljko said something about popups and then then Jarmo said he had something along these lines that didn't use AutoIt. We are already talking about completely different things. 1. showModalDialog = Watir#modal_dialog. It is one kind of dialog, that is only supported by IE. Watir has unique support for this kind of dialog. The support includes a custom version of win32ole and therefore adds ruby version dependencies to Watir. Charley understands this, and I thought Zeljko did in his reply, but now I realize he didn't. Like, I said, the hardest part about this is terminology. Until we all have confidence that we understand each other we can't start discussing solutions. showModalDialog windows include a web page and therefore cannot be handled by Windows-only tools, such as AutoIt. 2. There are lots of other popups as well, many of which can be handled by AutoIt. There are recurring discussions about using different libraries etc to handle them. This is all fine, but has nothing to do with #1. One of the reasons that Watir users have so much trouble handling dialogs is because we don't have a scientific language for discussing them. So I am going to declare that these will henceforth be known, by any one who wants to be taken seriously by me, as Type 1 and Type 2 dialogs. Now there are actually a lot of different kinds of Type 2 dialogs, so maybe there are more. I don't know. I mostly avoid Type 2 dialogs. But I have made a significant study of Type 1 dialogs. I have seen Type 1 dialogs that spawned more type 1 dialogs. I have seen type 1 dialogs that contained frames. And I have found ways to make Watir work with all of them. (Selenium gets quite lost with them). I wrote the special version of win32ole to support them and recently suggested we break this code out into a separate gem. That was when Jarmo said, "I was thinking of something similar" and discussed new code for handling type 2 dialogs. This is why I said the most difficult aspect of what I was proposing (making a separate gem for type 1 dialogs) was finding a suitable name. I said that Zeljko's "watir-popups" was horrible because i knew it would make people think of type 2 dialogs (which is exactly what happened faster than even I expected). Bret On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Željko Filipin < zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I think the only thing holding back from fully recommending > > the latest of these is showModalDialog > > And if we removed popup support from Watir and created new gem? > Watir-popups? That does not fix the problem, but it lets people that do not > need popup support to use newer versions of Ruby. > > Željko > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > Wtr-development@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > -- Bret Pettichord Lead Developer, Watir, www.watir.com Blog, www.io.com/~wazmo/blog Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord
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