Hi Paul,
I get the maxlength of a field the following way:
textfield = $ie.text_field(:id, $tf_userid)
object = textfield.getOLEObject()
maxlength = object.invoke("maxlength")
Hope this helps.
Ulrike
Paul Carvalho wrote:
> Most of my Watir scripts generate their own random inputs (content and
> length), but I always have to specify an upper limit for each data
> value specified.
>
> For example, a Create New User page has the following HTML for a User
> Name input field:
> <INPUT class=fieldLarge id=_ctl0_UserNameField maxLength=50
> name=_ctl0:UserNameField>
>
> and the script writes to it with the following code:
> # Input a username that is at least 5 characters but no more than
> 50 chars in length
> $ie.text_field(:name, /UserName/).set( random_input( 'text',
> 5+rand(46) ) )
>
> So I have to [manually] specify in the script that it should contain
> no more than 50 characters in length (i.e. upper limit of 5+45).
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to have Ruby/Watir
> automatically read the 'maxLength=##' attribute and assign that value
> to a variable that I can then work with in the corresponding input
> commands?
>
> If I can do that, then my scripts will be even more independent and
> free to generate their own inputs of random length based on what the
> HTML says a field's upper limit is.
>
> I couldn't find anything in the Watir API Reference that looked like
> it might do this. Could we add a feature to do this if there isn't a
> way now?
>
> Paul.
>
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