From: Bret Pettichord <bret@...>
Date: 2006-09-11T05:21:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Running [Watir] Tests With the Browser Not Visible

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On 9/10/06, Phlip <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It turns out this sets the wie.ie.Visible flag. So it's the same as I had
> doing that. The window flashes as it paints, then hides itself.
>
> This effect happens with both the in-process COM server and the with
> IE.new_process() (which is otherwise working great; thanks!)
>
> I thought that COM had a flag to pass into the object-creation muck to
> never
> display the window. And I know that CreateProcess[Ex], the heart of
> out-of-process creation, has one too.


This was a bug in 1.4. It is fixed in 1.5 when using the COM server -- at
least for me.

I don't believe the IE.new_process() code supports non-visible or -b at all
in its current state. Feel free to supmit a patch.

Bret

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