From: Nathan Smith <nlloyds@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T06:21:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Attach to running IE instance without watir?

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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
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

From looking at the Watir source, it appears that attach calls attach_init,
which calls a method called attach_browser_window. That method calls _find.
You can look at the implementaion here:
http://svn.openqa.org/fisheye/browse/watir/trunk/watir/watir.rb?r=trunk

Since you don't want to depend on Watir, it looks like you may need to
reimplement some of its functionality.

Thanks,

Nate

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