Ron made this helpful comment to a recent feature request:
Comment By: Ron Evans (greatbignoise)
Date: 2005-08-26 19:19
Message:
Try adding this code to the ObjectActions class:
# This method checks to see if a control is visible or not
# raises: UnknownObjectException if the object is not found
def visible?
object_exist_check
return false if @o.style.visibility == "hidden"
return true
end
You can then use an assert like the following:
assert(@ie.text_field(:id, "Text2").visible?)
I just wanted to point out that one of the great things about Ruby is that
you can implement suggestions like this without actually changing watir.rb.
Thus:
class ObjectActions
def visible?
object_exist_check
return false if @o.style.visibility == "hidden"
return true
end
end
You can load this code and add the feature right away. You don't have to
patch watir.rb or wait for us to include it in a release. (If you look in
watir.rb, you'll see that we actually add methods to the String and Regexp
classes ourselves.)
This is one of the few features of Ruby that put it way ahead of what you
can do in Python. The technical description of this feature is 'classes are
always open.' (Actually you *can* freeze classes in Ruby, but i've never
seen it done.)
(Also note that the ObjectActions class was renamed as Elements in 1.4)
Bret
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