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Scott, I got tired of waiting as well.  I've started an IE toolbar that will do the same thing.  While I really like the idea of having a Watir toolbar for this, it has taken me into the black art of C++ / COM / ATL (not my greatest strength).  I've gotten a lot of legs from an excellent ShareWare utility called ToolbarCreator, but it's still relatively slow going.  In the same time that it took you to produce a relatively functional prototype, I've just gotten to the point where the event sinks work for the DOM.
 
In addition to concerns over the development velocity, I've been worried about producing a solution that few people in the Watir community would be interested in (or able to) maintain.
 
So, long story short, we have a need for WaterMaker and I'd like to throw my hat in the ring.
 
-=michael=-
 
P.S. If you ever have a need for an IE toolbar, I highly recommend ToolbarCreator (http://www.diodia.com/toolbarcreator.htm).  They've done an excellent job of creating a wizard that will spit out a C++ VS 7 project for your toolbar, and they provide libraries that hide much of the COM / ATL complexity.

--
Michael Kelly
Sr. Software Engineer
Eleven Wireless Inc. - The Possibilities are Wireless
http://www.elevenwireless.com

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Hanselman
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wtr-general] (possibly) Introducing WatirMaker

Hey folks,

I got tired of waiting and wrote a 0.1 version of what I'm calling WatirMaker. It's puts IE on a string and attempts to record a Watir script from events. Take a look here http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingWatirMakerRecordingForRubybasedWatir.aspx - there is a flash movie demonstration of what I've accomplished in a few hours.

I'd like to get a few people together to take this to a 0.9 release. Note, though, it's probably less about understanding Watir and more about understanding COM and the HTMLDocumentEvents2 classes. If you've got deep COM and IE object model and you're in this group, I'd like to talk to you. If it's successful the Watir community can have it and maybe Bret would bless it. ;)

Scott Hanselman
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