I think this is a known issue in the trunk code (and older). FireWatir
currently only lets you interact with one browser window at a time, so once
you've attached to a new Firefox browser, you have to close it down before
you can interact with your first browser again.
I think there was some more info on this in posts to the Watir dev list a
few months ago...can't find it at the moment though.
Still, I would also say this is worth an enhancement request if there isn't
one already.
Thanks
Bill
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Alan Ark <ar...@compli.com> wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
>
>
> Running ruby 1.8.6
>
> Win XP SP3
>
> Version of Watir from github from (5/20/2009) – reports as 1.6.2, but its
> not the released version.
>
>
>
> It appears that my browser windows are getting their wires crossed
> somehow. I’m attaching code that should show the problem.
>
>
>
> What I see:
>
> Browser A goes to a page and clicks on a link to open a print friendly
> view of the page.
>
> Browser C should attach to the new window.
>
> Somehow Browser A now thinks that it’s the same thing as Browser C?
>
>
>
> What I expected:
>
> Browser A and Browser C remain separate.
>
>
>
> Code to use in IRB
>
> #watir_browser is set to FF - using v 3.0.0.10 on my local machine.
>
> require 'Watir'
>
> a=Watir::Browser.new
>
> a.goto("
> http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/05/21/peavy.trade/index.html
> ")
>
> a.image(:alt,"PRINT").click
>
> # wait_until(30) { c=Watir::Browser.attach(:url,/printthis/) } # this line
> is not working yet.
>
> sleep 10 # attach will throw exception if the window does not appear in
> time.
>
> c=Watir::Browser.attach(:url,/printthis/) # if the window does not appear
> in time.
>
> a.url # returns the URL from c!
>
>
>
>
>
> I’m thinking that I should probably log this in JIRA, but I figured that
> I’d open the discussion 1st.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> -Alan
>
>
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>
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