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Alastair Montgomery
Alastair Montgomery

Reputation: 1856

Passing keycode with keydown and keyup events in Watir & FireWatir

I need to automate interaction with a custom jQuery rich text editor in our web client. Having talked with our developers I would only need to be able to fire the following events; keydown, keyup, mousedown, mouseup and paste.

So really need a way of being able to pass a key code with the fire_event keydown and keyup calls for WATIR and FIREWATIR?

Has anyone had any success in doing this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2443

Answers (2)

Chuck van der Linden
Chuck van der Linden

Reputation: 6660

Have you tried the send_keys method? I know watir-webdriver supports it, and it seems that is rapidly becoming the preferred way of driving firefox

Upvotes: 2

Vlad Khomich
Vlad Khomich

Reputation: 5880

i had a similar need a long time ago. I believe, your best bet is 

@browser.document.parentWindow.eval(‘javascript’)

I've just tried the following on some page with included jquery:

$('body').keydown(function(e) {alert(e.keyCode)}); // Assign keydown event to 'body', so it will alert with the key code of any button pressed

var event = jQuery.Event("keydown");
event.keyCode = 50; // Whatever keyCode you need
jQuery("body").trigger(event); // Here you replace 'body' with the element you need

so, basically, you craft an event and trigger it on any element you need

the whole picture might look something like:

@browser.document.parentWindow.eval('var event = jQuery.Event("keydown"); event.keyCode = 50; jQuery("#theElementYouNeed").trigger(event)')

Upvotes: 1

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