Hi Lisa, what's the code for selectPlanAdvisor();
Do? Might be worth just eval'ing that ...
Regards,
Tim
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On 28/05/2011, at 6:05 AM, Lisa Crispin <lisa.cris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (re-sending, I don't think it got sent for some reason)
>
> Now I am able to type text into the hidden field, but after looking at the
> links Chuck recommended, the code from Paul, and lots of other Googling
> around, I'm still flummoxed on trying to get the event to fire.
>
> Here is the html:
> <select dojoType="dijit.form.FilteringSelect" id='advisorId'
> name='advisorId' onchange="javascript:selectPlanAdvisor();">
> <option value="0" selected >
> No Advisor
> </option>
> <option value="3785" >
> FERNANDEZ, KEVIN S
> </option>
> </select>
>
> Here is what I've tried to try to fire the event:
> ie.hidden(:id, 'advisorId').fire_event("onchange")
>
> This returns a value of "yellow" in irb (WTF?) but does not fire the JS.
>
> One of the Java developers here tried to help, but he's as baffled as I am.
> Any other suggestions? I will have many scripts broken because of this, and I
> depend on those scripts to help with our exploratory testing as well as
> testing releases to the staging environment. I don't want to lose them!
>
> thanks,
> Lisa
>
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> I'd wager it's working off keypress events. Problem is we can't
> easily fire those in watir because the .fire_event method only takes a
> single parameter (the event) and I believe to work properly keypress
> needs a parameter for the value of the key that was depressed.
>
> You might need to write your own function that executes the javascript
> fireevent function instead, similar to this item from Stackoverflow a
> year or two ago
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/602069/autocomplete-dropdown-test-with-ruby-watir
>
> Another alternative is described here
> http://zbarzone.blogspot.com/2008/08/watir-sendkeys-and-javascript.html
> and that approach might actually be better for you.
>
> To fix this 'for real' it seems we'd need to first modify .fire_event
> to allow for a second parameter, or create a new method such
> as .fire_key_event that would take two parameters. Then any other
> methods that have keypress events in them such as .set would need to
> be altered to fire the down/press/up events character by character and
> fire those events with the proper 'key' values for each character.
>
> On May 24, 11:24 am, Lisa Crispin <lisa.cris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried the log events thing, it's nice to know about that, but I don't see
> > anything that really looks like the JS firing. I see a lot of 'select',
> > 'click' 'keydown', 'input', 'keypress', 'keyup', none of that looks like
> > what the JS is doing with the type ahead.
> > -- LIsa
> >
> > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Željko Filipin <
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Lisa Crispin <lisa.cris...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > We are changing what used to be regular drop-down select list boxes to a
> > > dojo widget thingie that allows type ahead to select the item.
> >
> > > Is the page public? Or a similar page? Frameworks usually have examples
> > > somewhere online.
> >
> > > If you think the only problem is that a JavaScript event is not fired (by
> > > Watir), take a look at this:
> >
> > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3787555/how-to-find-out-which-java...
> >
> > > If the site is not public, but you could show it to me, contact me off
> > > list.
> >
> > > Željko
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