[Wtr-general] FreeTextBox & Watir

[Alan Ark]

I've got a line open with the author of FTB to see why this is.  When you include the free version of FTB, all you get is a DLL to link into your project.  I'm hoping that the author will be able to give me a little more insight into the pieces that are being displayed. 

I do know about the frame (there are actually two of them), but I'm unsure on why they are there, or how/if I should be able to actually set text on the fields.

For now I have a clumsy workaround - sleep for 15 seconds while I paste the text into the field.  Its frustrating that I could not do 

ie.text_area(:id,"ctl0_MainBody_PolicyHtmlEditor").set("hi")

on the object.  Grrr.  

Sometimes you win, sometimes you have to find the way around. LOL.

-----Original Message-----
From: wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Chris McMahon
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:38 PM
To: wtr-general at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] FreeTextBox & Watir

On 7/25/06, Alan Ark <arkie at compli.com> wrote:
> Well using ie.show_active has given me very interesting results.
>
> What I had expected to be my text_field to be active was something totally different.
>
> => "HTML Document     name=          id=ctl0_MainBody_PolicyHtmlEditor_designEditor
> src=about:blank     innerText=        \n"
> irb(main):305:0>
>
>
> Clicking on the various dropdown that let me choose the attributes of the font displays what I expected - a series of select-one's
> Clicking on any of the font styling/formatting buttons (like Bold, Strikethru, centered, left-justified) also returns the HTML document type.
>
> I'm going to play around with this a little more.  It is very interesting though.


So it is.  You realize you have a frame or iframe there, right?
That's the "HTML Document" bit.
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