From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T19:30:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Watir : Working in same session of IE

From: Anukul Singhal [mailto:anukul.singhal@gmail.com] 
# Are you trying this out in Scite or is their something else 
# that you are 
# using?I believe when you execute (F5) the first two lines of code, it 
# will open IE with google url.
# Now, with the google url already open, I want to update the 
# code in such 
# a way that I can enter the text in the search field without opening a 
# new session of the browser. So, if I just add the 3rd line of my code 
# and execute, it would definitely open a new instance of IE (since it 
# will execute ie = Watir::IE.new again). I want to avoid that, hoping 
# that there must be a logic between the first 2 lines and the 3rd line 
# which avoids opening a new browser.

nope. scite will reexecute your code fr start.

try irb, it will execute your code per line you enter.

 
# Another idea would be to check if there is an existing instance of IE 
# already present and then we can just do ie.goto(url).

never tried that. that would mean searching for an ie instance and then attaching an ole object on it.  but i do not know the criteria since there could be many ie instances open and many google pages open. wc one then?  but that would be cool though. 

kind regards -botp