Watir is able to fire an event for a select list if there are events of the required type registered to the element. If, however, there are no objects registered via JavaScript to the select element, then it fails.
>From a testing stand point for a JavaScript rich application, it would be nice to be able to fire the event and have it succeed even if there are no registered events. The test code can then be far more versatile and general. Versions: IE 8.0.6001.18702 Ruby 1.9.2p180 Watir 1.9.1.rc1 HTML Code Sample: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http:// www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <head> <title>fire event sample</title> </head> <body> <select name="select"> <option value="1">value1</option> <option value="2">value2</option> </select> </body> </html> Ruby Code Sample: require 'watir' browser = Watir::Browser.new browser.goto "http://<path.to>/testPage.html" browser.select_list(:name, 'select').fire_event('change') Expected Result: Code should execute without any errors, firing events if there were any, and otherwise doing nothing (just like the equivalent behaviour in JavaScript). Actual Result: C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-1.9.1.rc1/lib/watir/ element.rb:339:in `method_missing': (in OLE method `fireEvent': ) (WIN32OLERuntimeError) OLE error code:80070057 in htmlfile Invalid argument. HRESULT error code:0x80020009 Exception occurred. from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-1.9.1.rc1/lib/ watir/element.rb:339:in `dispatch_event' from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-1.9.1.rc1/lib/ watir/element.rb:325:in `fire_event' from IE8FireEventBug.rb:21:in `<main>' Let me know what you think. :-) Thanks! Michael -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
