[Wtr-general] Watir with Ajax

2007-01-31 Thread Naga Harish Kanegolla
Hi all, we are having a lot of Ajax stuffs in our application. I need help for Ajax stuffs to be automated with watir. This is how my application looks. I have a search criteria with a link called "search a term". If i click on that link an Ajax select will be opened.I need to select a term usi

Re: [Wtr-general] Unable to access a modal dialog box to select a

2007-01-31 Thread vijay
Hello people, Thanks for your answers. But I am sorry to say that my issue still remains unsolved. $ie.modal_dialog.html does not return the '.html' of the dialog nor does 'Spysmith' reqcognize the controls in the dialog. The script just does not do anything after executing the statement pri

Re: [Wtr-general] url for link

2007-01-31 Thread Naga Harish Kanegolla
Hi, I got this working by using the index number. ie.link(:index,15).click. Thanks a lot, Harish - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.openqa.org/thread.jspa?threadID=6325&messageID=17989#17989 _

[Wtr-general] new browser in background

2007-01-31 Thread Walter Kruse
Hi guys I run my scripts from a batch file with the -b option so that the browsers aren't visible. One of our actions causes a new browser window to open, but this is visible despite the -b. Is there any way to prevent the new window from being visible ? Walter Kruse Senior Test Analyst www.

Re: [Wtr-general] hi, not able to use assert

2007-01-31 Thread Maloy kanti debnath
hi, i tried adding require 'test/unit/assertions' in my code but then too its not working and is giving the same error can you give me a simple set of code using assertions. It will be really helpfull too me thank you, thanks maloy

Re: [Wtr-general] HTML Pages with bad XML

2007-01-31 Thread Bret Pettichord
John Castellucci wrote: > Any tips on getting Watir to be happy with lousy XML source? > By design, REXML should handle lousy XML. I suggest you raise this issue with the REXML project. I had a problem a while ago, reported it to them with a failing tests case, and they fixed it. Bret __

[Wtr-general] HTML Pages with bad XML

2007-01-31 Thread John Castellucci
Howdy all, I'm working on a short project where I am parsing a page that happens to contain some nodes that cause REXML to die -- some specific examples are: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] _extended="true" /> The nodes with @, : and , all throw: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/parsers/treeparser.rb:

Re: [Wtr-general] Unable to access a modal dialog box to select a

2007-01-31 Thread John Lolis
> Another option is to use this script: > > puts $ie.modal_dialog.html ... something about a forest and trees comes to mind ... Thanks for such a simple solution :) - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.openqa.org/thread.jspa?t

Re: [Wtr-general] http_error_checker on IE7

2007-01-31 Thread Charley Baker
Noticed that too, but Watir does store it in the @url_list in the wait method before it calls run_error_checks. Which would require checking the url on the unless condition to add res errors regardless of already in the list. -c On 1/31/07, Paul Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i looked at th

Re: [Wtr-general] Unable to access a modal dialog box to select a particular value from i

2007-01-31 Thread Bret Pettichord
Another option is to use this script: puts $ie.modal_dialog.html ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

Re: [Wtr-general] http_error_checker on IE7

2007-01-31 Thread Paul Rogers
i looked at the url yesterday ( just quickly mind ) and in the browser it showed as res:.. but from watir it just gave me the url of the page that I was trying to get to Paul Good point, I'm looking at a good way to tell if the navigation fails in IE7. So far the best way I can find is to check

Re: [Wtr-general] http_error_checker on IE7

2007-01-31 Thread Charley Baker
Good point, I'm looking at a good way to tell if the navigation fails in IE7. So far the best way I can find is to check the url for res:///dnserror.htm There may be other pages that get used for other errors though - 500 responses, etc. I'm using two machines to test. There is however, some

Re: [Wtr-general] Clicking on a flash element

2007-01-31 Thread Paul Rogers
can you set focus to a control and then use auto-it to send TAB until the flash has focus and then send another auto-it command? I think there is something for testing flash, but I cant find it right now ( I found this, but it wasnt what I was looking for: http://sourceforge.net/projects/asuni

Re: [Wtr-general] saving screenshots with snagit

2007-01-31 Thread Paul Rogers
I have some code ( that someone else fixed for me - Im sorrry but I cant remmeber your name ) that probably does the same as win32::screenshot I was intending to check it in in place of the nasty hack that uses the paint program The problem was that it only saves bmp, but the default on the pai

Re: [Wtr-general] http_error_checker on IE7

2007-01-31 Thread Paul Rogers
I was about to reply that I wasnt happy with the way this works. For example a site that has this 200 Days till Christmas would get reported as an http error I think we need to check for the existance of something else before raising the exception. Do you test on 2 pcs, or is there some magi

Re: [Wtr-general] saving screenshots with snagit

2007-01-31 Thread Charley Baker
There are some sample programs using the com binding on Techsmith's website and minimal COM api docs. You might also take a look at Aslak Hellesoy's screenshot library for Ruby: http://blog.aslakhellesoy.com/articles/2006/12/02/getting-screenshots-from-watir -Charley On 1/30/07, david goodine <[

Re: [Wtr-general] Unable to access a modal dialog box to select a particular value from i

2007-01-31 Thread John Lolis
Good question, heres my trick. Download a product called spysmith (its linked in the wiki, but i'm sure google can find it). After you install this spysmith allows you to see HTML values of any web page (including modal). The real trick though is that it allows you to see ALL the HTML. So what

Re: [Wtr-general] http_error_checker on IE7

2007-01-31 Thread Charley Baker
Paul, I committed the change in svn after testing it on IE6 and IE7. -Charley On 1/30/07, Bret Pettichord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul, Please go ahead and commit this change. Bret - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.

Re: [Wtr-general] installing watir from trunk

2007-01-31 Thread Ċ½eljko Filipin
On 1/31/07, Bret Pettichord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you very much for the reports. I love to report bugs. :) -- Zeljko Filipin zeljkofilipin.com ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wt

[Wtr-general] Unable to access a modal dialog box to select a particular value from it

2007-01-31 Thread vijay
Hello people, In my application, when I select a particular value in a 'list box', a dialog named 'Select -- Web Page Dialog' gets displayed as a small window (1/4th the size of the original window). I want to select a particular value, among a list of values displayed, in this 'Dialog' and cl

Re: [Wtr-general] how to populate hidden text area?

2007-01-31 Thread Angrez Singh
Hi Suman, Can you try the following? Simulate pressing {TAB} key until you get focus on the textarea i.e. send or Press {TAB} key using code. First count the number of tabs required by doing the same in UI and send that many tab key events, to get focus on the text area. Once you get the focus y

Re: [Wtr-general] url for link

2007-01-31 Thread Nathan Christie
I like Bret's idea :) - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.openqa.org/thread.jspa?threadID=6325&messageID=17925#17925 ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyf

Re: [Wtr-general] hi, not able to use assert

2007-01-31 Thread Bret Pettichord
add this line: require 'test/unit/assertions' - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.openqa.org/thread.jspa?threadID=6352&messageID=17922#17922 ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@r

Re: [Wtr-general] hi, not able to use assert

2007-01-31 Thread carl . l . shaulis
Good morning: Perhaps you could try something like this: #includes: require 'watir' # the watir controller require "rexml/document" require "date" require '/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit' require '/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/ui/console/testrunner' require 'w

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir Test Case Writing

2007-01-31 Thread Richard Conroy
On 1/30/07, Nathan Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nathan, > > I've written thousands of Ruby unit tests that use Watir extensively for our > web applications. If you have some more specific implementation / strategic > questions that you want to take offline please feel free to shoot me an

[Wtr-general] Clicking on a flash element

2007-01-31 Thread Max Russell
Hi- If a page uses a Flash element (in this case a debug message) is there any way to click on this element? Even if outwith the scope of WATIR, does anyone know a library for driving Flash at all? Max Russell Test Analyst. INPS Tel: 01382 223900 Fax: 01382 204488 Visit our Web s