From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T04:45:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Attach to running IE instance without watir?

On 1/16/07, Geoff Cheshire <gtc@cheshirelaw.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've done the Google thing for several days and I'm hitting a blank.
> I'm wondering if there's a way to attach to a running IE process (on
> Windows) by using win32ole alone.  I can do it with watir, ie =
> Watir::IE.attach(:url, url), but I may need to do this on platforms that
> don't have watir installed.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers,
> Geoff

Hi,

it's certainly possible. In programming ruby you'llfind an example how
to attach to running excel. Then you'll need to find out Explorer's
API -  it shouldn't be that hard (see MSDN etc.)