I would like to deprecate or remove WindowHelper from Watir 1.5.

So i'd rather see enhancements directed towards using watir/dialog.rb (which still needs a lot more work, including replacing autoit).

Bret

On 2/10/06, Atilla Ozgur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As I know it does not accept regular expressions . It should be a good
enhancement to do so. I will look at it in the weekend.

On 2/8/06, Terry Peppers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> I asked a real foolish question a couple of weeks ago with regard to how you
> can get Watir to enter in username and password credentials into a user auth
> dialog - that I should apologize for. I figured the silence was really a nod
> to RTFM so I did more digging in the 'unitTests' directory and found the '
> WindowLogonExample.rb' and 'WindowLogonExtra.rb' files that apparently were
> named too well for me to notice the first time around.
>
> So I'm @ a bit of a stumbling block.
>
> In the 'WindowLogonExtra.rb' - which is the script called by one of the
> threads in the ' WindowLogonExample.rb' - the code is short and sweet.
>
> <begin_code>
> require 'watir/WindowHelper'
>
> helper = WindowHelper.new
> helper.logon('Connect to clio.lyris.com ')
> <end_code>
>
>
> I modified the code so it reads the following:
>
> <begin_code>
> require 'watir/WindowHelper'
>
> r = Regexp.new("Connect to stage.*")
>
> helper = WindowHelper.new
> helper.logon("#{r}", name="foo", password="bar")
> <end_code>
>
> We have multiple staging sites, and I'd like not to clutter up the code with
> a huge if/else or case statement that accounts for all of the different
> domains. I basically want to login to any auth window that matches the
> Regex. Unfortunately, it looks like the script just hangs since the
> WindowHelper can't seem to find the window.
>
> Does anyone know if I'm doing something wrong? Can the 'logon' method not
> accept a Regular _expression_ for the 'title' parameter? Is this a AutoIt
> deficiency?
>
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