From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-02-05T06:46:26+09:00
Subject: Re: how to handle java script pop ups ??

Pradeepta Swain wrote:
> How can I access java script pop ups using ruby ? I want to access the
> alert message as well as click the button of pop up boxes . How can I do
> that ? Anybody help ??

I don't think you can.  javascript is part of a software program 
variously named: IE, Firefox, Safari, etc. that executes on a user's 
computer.  It's hard to tell what type of program that you want to use 
to control the javascript execution:

1) A program running on the user's computer where the web browser is 
executing the javascript
2) a program on a remote server.

With 2), you can't affect something that is executing in the user's 
browser.  A program on a server can decide what to send to the client 
browser, but once the client browser starts executing the javascript, 
the javascript program decides what will happen from then on--not your 
program on the server.

With 1), I think it is probably possible, but you would have to somehow 
use ruby to control how a software program is executing, i.e. the 
browser.  That would require that your ruby program open communication 
with the browser and then use it's API to affect how the browser 
executes the javascript.   I doubt whether the API provides such fine 
grained control like that, and if it did, you would probably have to 
study the API for years before you could figure out how to do that.






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