How do make the element_by_xpath work?

[bugs apple]

hi, all

 

In my html file, there are some script like below,

<input type = "text" id="id1", name="wiston"  > <br>
<input type = "text" id="id2", name="wiston"  > <br>
<input type = "text" id="id3", name="wiston"  > <br>

 

 

develop the watir code like this,

 

ie=Watir::IE.attach(:title, /title/)

ie.element_by_xpath("//input[@name='wiston']/").set("hello")

 

it throws C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.6/watir/RubyApplication2/lib/main.rb:90:in `method_missing': unknown property or method `set' (WIN32OLERuntimeError)

    HRESULT error code:0x80020006

Anybody can tell me How do make the element_by_xpath work?

 

 

[Angrez Singh]

Try this:
ie.element_by_xpath("//input[@name='wiston']").set("hello")

basically i removed the forward slash at the end of Xpath query.

- Angrez

[wesley chen]

it won't work, because
 ie.element_by_xpath("//input[@name='wiston']").class ='win32ole'
for win32ole object, there is no method of 'set'

[bugs apple]

Yes, wesley is right

 

How do make the ie.element_by_xpath that return OLE object work well?

 

Or tell me how to transfer the ole object to the normal object so that let the

set-method work?

2008/10/10 wesley chen <cjq...@gmail.com>

[juuser]

why not use ie.text_field(:id, "id1").value = "hello" ?