From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2009-09-01T21:57:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Activate radio button (win32ole)

Hi,

2009/9/1 Df Gh <nebojsa.jovicic@gmail.com>:
> Hi there folks!
> I am trying to automate a browser task with win32ole. The browser is
> Internet Explorer.
>
> I used this tutorial:
> http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2007/05/automating-internet-explorer-with-ruby_20.html
>
> So the code for clicking a normal button goes like
>
> require 'win32ole'
> ie = WIN32OLE.new('InternetExplorer.Application')
> ie.Document.All.btnG.click
>
> where 'bntG' is the name of the button.
>
> The HTML for my radio button looks like this:
> <input name="type" value="reference" title="get ref" type="radio">
>
> The problem is the name="type", I think.
> When I do this 'ie.Document.All.type' ooops, didn't want to know it's
> type...
>
> Any way around this?
> I'd rather not use fat libraries like watir.

You can use getElementsByName like this:
ie.Document.getElementsByName('type').item(0).click

Regards,

Park Heesob