From: mully <david.mullet@...>
Date: 2007-01-18T00:25:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Attach to running IE instance without watir?


Geoff Cheshire 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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IE objects are included in the Windows collection of the Shell object,
so you could do something like the following (code not tested):

shell = WIN32OLE.new('Shell.Application')
shell.Windows.each do | window |
    if window.Document.Title == 'Your Title Here'
       ie = window
    end
end

Mully