I've found that the fire_event can be very problematic which extensions/alerts is using. watir-webdriver will be updated to use selenium-webdriver's switch_to in the near future. But in the mean time you can take a look at handling this buy adding an alert box helper to Watir:
https://github.com/ccyphers/whirlwind/blob/master/lib/watir.rb Then you can do stuff like: @browser.alert_box.text @browser.alert_box.dismiss On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Dan <dfra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I've tried to implement the dialog handling as described here on > http://watirwebdriver.com/javascript-dialogs/ using the example at > http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_popup.asp, but it doesn't seem to work. I > believe the application I'm working on is using the same approach that this > example is to the alerts, but for some reason I can't get it to dismiss this > pop-up. I'm successful in disabling it altogether > using browser.execute_script("window.alert = function() {}"), but I'd really > prefer to be able to capture what the actual alert was and to dismiss it > like a user would, which seems like "watir-webdriver/extensions/alerts" > would allow me to do. > > Here's what I tried: > > require 'rubygems' > require 'watir-webdriver' > require "watir-webdriver/extensions/alerts" > > browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox > browser.goto "http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_alert"; > browser.frame(:class => "result_output").button(:value => "Show alert > box").wait_until_present > browser.frame(:class => "result_output").button(:value => "Show alert > box").click > > browser.alert do > browser.button(:value => 'OK').click > end #=> 'the alert message' > > This is the exception I get : > > C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.3/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:248:in > `assert_exists': unable to locate element, using {:value=>"OK", > :tag_name=>"button"} (Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException) > > Thanks! > > -- > 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 > -- 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
