Bret asks: >What is a "ruby attach dialog"? I was referring to the DOS/ruby.exe window that opens and scrolls through all the window captions until it finds the File Open dialog.
>I'd be surprised if vmWare itself is the source of your problem. I'm pretty >sure we have people here who have used it with Watir successfully. True? I had my sysadmin upgrade the VMWare server to the latest version, and updated my client as well, and this solved the problem. VMWare looks to be a useful tool where I work for allowing the developers to run acceptance tests without spending the time to configure their dev systems and keep the tests up-to-date locally. Original message: >>If a regular page has a file_field control, everything works peachy. >> >>But, the application also has pages where you can click a button and it >>opens a dojo (a JavaScript toolkit) modal faux popup with the file_field >>(the underlying page is disabled), and this is where I see the weird >>behavior. >> >>When invoking field_field.set(), only the ruby attach dialog opens the >>standard IE File Upload dialog *does not* open. It's not until the attach >>dialog closes that the IE File Upload finally appears, and at this point, >>the Watir script "hangs." (I suspect because there was no File dialog for >>ruby to attach to) _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general