HI Jonathan,
That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again for that
Jonathan.
Mark.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Kohl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 October 2005 20:24
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Scroll IE
> This is along the lines of what I'm looking for but it's the
> IRB that exits and not Internet Explorer that closes. I was
> hoping to be able to enter further ruby commands at the
> command line after the script had finished.
> Do you think this is possible?
One thing you can try is ie.attach. Once the script has finished running,
you can open IRB and attach to the window using title or url.
-Jonathan
> Thanks for your help,
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 13 October 2005 17:02
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Scroll IE
>
>
>
> > I've tried the scrollIntoView method by calling it on my global $ie
> > object as so $ie.scrollIntoView and also by calling it on
> the button I
> > want to scroll into view
> >
> > $detailsFrame.button(:name, /nextAction/).scrollIntoView
> >
> > but to now avail. I get the following errors. Would this means its
> > been deprecated?
> It's not a Watir method, it's part of the Internet Explorer
> API, and it is used by Watir methods we call. It might not be
> working for buttons, so we should look at that. If it isn't
> scrolling into view automatically when you click a button,
> there is an issue with the Watir code.
>
> > Could I be so bold as to ask another question? Its
> regarding the IRB?
> > I've been through the manual and it says that to run a script using
> > the
> irb
> > you simply pass the script file as an argument to the irb process,
> however,
> > the process then quits and finishes once it's completed the script.
> > I was hoping it would run the script to the scripts completion and
> > then allow me to take over once the script was finished? My
> script is
> > a TestCase, could this be the reason?
> I'm afraid I don't completely understand the question. What
> manual are you using? The Watir User Guide has a small
> section on IRB, but there is a lot of info in Ruby manuals,
> and probably in Bret's Scripting 101 where you could be
> getting this from.
>
> Are you running IRB from the command line, and wondering why
> the console closes when the script is finished? I tend to run
> saved scripts from the command line, and use IRB for
> interactive work with Ruby, or using the Watir library. If it
> helps, this article shows how to drive IE using IRB:
> http://www.kohl.ca/articles/watir_works.pdf
>
> If Internet Explorer is closing, I
> would make sure there isn't an "ie.close" method in the
> script. I generally run all my scripts from the command line
> by typing in the name of the script and hitting enter.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -Jonathan
>
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