Because I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to do it without changing win32ole.
Our support for show-modal-dialogs is written in C. Some have suggested rewriting this C code so that it doesn't have this dependency. I'm all for it. Bret On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Jarmo <jarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > But why is the custom win32ole needed for these? > > Jarmo > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> > wrote: > > Yes, this is what I meant. > > > > I am proposing to extract the support for > > http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Modal+Dialogs > > > > Into a separate gem. Please understand that nearly all the various popups > > can properly be described as modal and as dialogs. Thus the problem of > > terminology. > > > > The best solution i have right now is to call these showModalDialogs, as > > that is the name of the javascript method that creates them. > > > > Bret > > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Željko Filipin > > <zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> > >> wrote: > >> > 1. showModalDialog = Watir#modal_dialog. > >> > >> All I know about popups is at our Pop Ups wiki page [1]. I do not have > to > >> deal with any kind of popups, except file uploads [2]. I guess you are > >> talking about modal dialogs [3]. > >> > >> > 2. There are lots of other popups as well, many of which can be > handled > >> > by AutoIt. > >> > >> Pop Ups page lists 11 other types of popups. > >> > >> > I wrote the special version of win32ole to support them and recently > >> > suggested we break this code out into a separate gem. > >> > >> I think I understand now. I agree that it is a good idea. It is not good > >> that we are tied to one particular version of Ruby only to support just > one > >> feature, that most of the people do not use. > >> > >> Željko > >> -- > >> [1] http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Pop+Ups > >> [2] http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/File+Uploads > >> [3] http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Modal+Dialogs > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 <http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog> > > Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wtr-development mailing list > > Wtr-development@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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