[Wtr-general] Fwd: Managing the Watir Project -- Wikipedia entry

[Bret Pettichord]

((Sorry for the earlier, incomplete post, i accidentally hit the send button, which is located right next to the bottom edge of the window i was pasting into.))

On 9/26/06, Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Regarding documentation, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watir

Thank you for taking the time to do this. I do have a comment that i hope you won't take personally.

I find code like this to be rather embarrassing:

# To handle general popups, use WinClicker.
ie.button(:name, "btnG").click_no_wait   # ensure popup won't block Watir


hwnd = ie.enabled_popup(5)               # get a handle if one exists
if (hwnd)                                # yes there is a popup
  w = WinClicker.new
  w.makeWindowActive(hwnd)
  w.clickWindowsButton_hwnd
 (hwnd, "Yes") # click the "Yes" button
end

I keep meaning to write a simpler way of doing this kind of thing, but then never really have the time to follow through. In my opinion, The code should actually look like this:

ie.button(:name, "btnG").click_no_wait   # ensure popup won't block Watir
ie.dialog.button('OK').click

I did begin implementing an interface like this in watir once (see watir/dialog.rb and unittests/dialog_test.rb), but didn't finish. It used the Autoit library, which i also now think is not the best approach.

I would love to see someone finish this work. Clearly, this is a common problem for Watir users, but my view is that the problem is not a lack of documentation, but rather a hard-to-user interface. I would love to get this cleaned up for the full release of 1.5.

Bret

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