I have been using Watir for two days now and want to know about how to modify the source watir.rb file. I installed the one-click install of Watir. What did that do exactly? Does it install pre-compiled files, or is everything source-based?
What I'm trying to do is modify the watir.rb file so that I can more easily use Watir with asp.net output. In much of my work, the name for a given text box will look something like this: ctl00$ctl00$TabPageContent$MainContent$ApplicationPage_UserDetails$nameT extBox What I'm really after is the last part of the name. In this case, "nameTextBox." While my "nameTextBox" won't change, the full name of the control will change if I rename anything higher up in the control tree, thus forcing me to do search and replaces for all of my watir scripts. So where do I actually go about modifying the Watir source? I downloaded the full source, but have no idea how to go about using my modified version rather than the installed version. It seems as though the key is in line 828 of watir.rb (version 1.4). Instead of matching the name or id attribute argument to the current object's name, I can have it match just the end of the string. Of course, I'm not sure how to go about doing that just yet, but I have a Ruby book on arrival today. Thanks for any help. Brian _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
