From: curious <csamigroup@...>
Date: 2006-11-09T21:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: select_list WATIR codes..

<select name=leftsegments multiple size=8>

one more comment..  above is the select HTML on the web page.. does
multiple size being 8 would have anything to do with the problem I am
having??

So I changed the first line in the text file to the first one in the
select list.. but still the same situation..

any help will be deeply appreciated..

thanks.

curious wrote:
> I have something funny going on with my WATIR. code.
>
> in the code below, test.txt file has about 50 lines.. for example, line
> number 1 is 'test1', number 2 is 'test2', and so on..
>
> I am trying to choose this line value in the select box in the web page
> one by one from the local text file and process it.
>
> in the below code, the line..
>
> ie.select_list( :name , "leftsegments").select("#{$Guide}")
>
> is supposed to choose test1 from the select box, which is the first
> line in the test.txt file.  Now even though test1 is one of the values
> in the select box, the message says 'there is no 'text1' in the select
> list.
>
> so I tried the code below again with
>
> ie.select_list( :name , "leftsegments").select("test1")
>
> and it works fine..
>
> what am I doing wrong??   the select box in the web page has more than
> 150 values.. maybe too many values to choose from??  is that confusing
> the WATIR code??  but what about the error message that says 'there is
> no test1 in the select list'????
>
> could anyone help and tell me what I am doing wrong??
>
> thanks.
>
> ========================================================================
> require 'watir'
>
> ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.testing.com")
> ie.link(:text, "New Page").click
> file = File.open("c:/test.txt", "r")
> lines = file.readlines()
> 0.upto(lines.length - 1) {|j|
> $Guide = lines[j]
> ie.button(:name, "choose_segments").click
> ie.select_list( :name , "leftsegments").select("#{$Guide}")
> ie.button(:name, "leftsegmentsButton").click
> }
> file.close() 
> lines.clear()