How to attach a new tab?

[wesley chen]

Suppose I have turned to www.google.com in IE7.
ie1=Watir::IE.start("www.google.com")
I would like to attach a new tab in the window, in the new tab, I would like to go to www.yahoo.com
How can I achieve it?

There is a method
Watir::IE.attach(:title, /title/)
What does the 'title' mean? the existent tab name?

Any suggestion would appreciated.


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Man should be hard to himself, but tolerant to others.

[wesley chen]

Now, I can locate any tab I want, but I still don't know how to create a new tab.
require 'watir'
s=[]
t=[]
Watir::IE.each do |x|
    s << x.title
    t << x.url
end

#puts the tab title and the cooperating url
puts s
puts t

#Practice on the cooperating tab.
ie2=Watir::IE.attach(:title, /Google Search/i)
ie2.goto("www.yahoo.com")

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Man should be hard to himself, but tolerant to others.

[Željko Filipin]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM, wesley chen <cjq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I still don't know how to create a new tab.

Set browser to open links in new tab instead of new window, if that is what you need.

Željko
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[wesley chen]

Hi, Zeljko,
I can create a blank tab manual and go to the page using watir:
require 'watir'
ie2=Watir::IE.attach(:title, '')
#ie2=Watir::IE.attach(:url, 'about:blank')
ie2.goto("www.google.com")

But how can I create a blank tab using watir automatic in an existent IE window?

[wesley chen]

Hi, Zeljko,
Maybe we can send Ctrl + T to create the new tab.
But I don't know how to use it, I know there are may keyboard practice commands in Watir, I have never succeed to try the commands, I don't know why, will you please write the code down? Maybe I can follow you and then, I will learn how to use send_keys or send function.

Thanks very much.
Any other suggestion would be also OK if we don't use Ctrl +T. I kind of find that, in watir, the Send or send_keys commands are not so sensitive and exactly to practice. Maybe I have lost something.

Yours.
Wesley Chen.

[Željko Filipin]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:05 PM, wesley chen <cjq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe we can send Ctrl + T to create the new tab.

I think people use autoit for such things.
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/

I never had to use it, so I really do not know how it works.

Željko
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[wesley chen]

:), thank you all the same.

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Man should be hard to himself, but tolerant to others.