From: Bret Pettichord <bret@...>
Date: 2004-03-12T09:19:39+09:00
Subject: Win32OLE bug

I'm seeing the following in 1.8.0 (mswin32) using win32ole:

In this case, i am working with Internet Explorer. $iec.document is the 
WIN32OLE wrapper around the document object (ie. the DOM).

Also, one of the forms in this DOM has an action == "start".

irb(main):009:0> for form in $iec.document.forms
irb(main):010:1> if form.action == "start"
irb(main):011:2> return form
irb(main):012:2> end
irb(main):013:1> end
LocalJumpError: unexpected return
         from (irb):11
         from (irb):9:in `each'
         from (irb):9

Note: this behavior is better than in 1.6.8. In that case, the function 
appeared to work correctly, but then ruby would hang on exit. That was a 
bear to isolate!

I'm not sure if this is a known problem, or how to go about reporting it. 
Any suggestions?

(P.S. I do know how to workaround this bug:

def get_form_by_action(action)
   "Return the first Form on the current page that has the specified Action."
   retval = nil # this ugliness avoids scripts hanging on exit (1.6) or a 
LocalJumpError (1.8)
   for form in @iec.document.forms
     next if retval
     if form.action == action
       retval = IEDomFormWrapper.new(form)
     end
   end
   return retval
end

)

Bret


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