a quick question about attaching to the session of IE. I am currently relying on attaching to one window on the desktop but I want to move towards running -b(ackground) option of Watir and running multiple IE windows. The best way I think I can do this is to maintain a handle to each IE instance. On my setup script that starts IE instance I can write out :hwnd and mainaint my test session based on that so each script talk to the correct window.
Before I jump into doing this I want to find out if it's possible to do in with -b option and if I am on the right track. so for example I will do this in my startup $ie = Watir.start() $ie_hwnd = $ie.hwnd() then in my test cases I attach to the instance $ie = Watir::IE.attach(:hwnd, $ie_hwnd) Then I can run another script file containing testCases with the same code. So this will create another thread of execution and each thread will have $ie attached to different instance of IE in memory. Am I on the right track? Your ideas are much appreciated. Thanks marekj On 6/30/07, Bret Pettichord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
jim_matt wrote: > I wanted to share something I discovered. I had reported earlier that > I sometimes I had problems attaching a browser using ":title". The > problem turns out to be that "title" is part of the HTML. The > confusion comes because if the HTML does not have a title, IE > displays the URL in the title bar of the browser. This makes it look > like you should be able to attach the IE browser using ":title", but > the attach will fail with an error like: > > Watir::Exception::NoMatchingWindowFoundException: Unable to locate a > window with title of (?i-mx:<whatever you used to match>) > > This is worth a note in the documentation for matching on ":title" > because it certainly looks like it should work. > This report is correct (we've discussed this offline). Both the IE.attach and the ie.title method are consistent in this regard -- both consider the title to be the HTML title of the page, which is not necessarily what appears in the title bar. Bret _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
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