My guess is that you could attach to the embedded browser if you can get a handle to the ie instance and then attach to the handle using ie.attach(:hwnd, handle). You may be able to get a handle by navigating through windows, simalarly to the way it's set up in Watir by using Shell.Application, iterating through windows and finding a window that matches either your title, url or class name. Check out each on class IE for an example.
I haven't done this before but that would be the general tack I'd take. There are likely better ways, but that'd be my first route. Otherwise you could find the window with Winclicker based on the title and class and pump that into ie.attach or find the child window that's serving the content and use that. Not having done it this is where I'd start and poking around on msdn, there are some good articles on hosting a browser control which might prove useful. Codeproject also has some examples of that. win32ole_pp has been of help to me here and there for getting better insight into the ole objects and supported methods. -Charley On 7/5/07, Lonny Eachus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying again: Does anybody know anything about getting the DOM or attaching with Watir when the IE browser is embedded in an application, such as with Microsoft smartclient? When the application in question is running, it is obviously just a wrapper around IE and it displays the same web pages I find on the main site via my regular browser. But soon some of those pages may be made inaccessible except through this "client" application. I already have a lot of automation written for this site. It could be a lifesaver if I could just find a way to attach to the embedded DOM. This is important. I could really use any help or ideas that are out there. Lonny Eachus ============ _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
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