[Wtr-development] [JIRA] Commented: (WTR-465) improved speed of filling text fields

[Jarmo Pertman (JIRA)]

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Jarmo Pertman commented on WTR-465:
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Doesn't it change any behavior regarding with JavaScript events - e.g. onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup, onchange and so on?

> improved speed of filling text fields
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WTR-465
>                 URL: http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-465
>             Project: Watir
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: FireWatir
>    Affects Versions: 1.6.7
>         Environment: Fedora Core 13, Firefox 3.6.12
>            Reporter: Mark Wieder
>            Assignee: Angrez
>
> The set method for filling text fields was operating at about one char per second, so I rewrote doKeyPress. It now works much faster for both append and set.
>       begin
>         #...existing test for max length
>       end
>       # get existing text
>       oldvalue = "#{(o.value.to_s)}"
>       # append new text
>       oldvalue += value
>       @o.value = oldvalue
>       @o.fireEvent("onKeyDown")
>       @o.fireEvent("onKeyPress")
>       @o.fireEvent("onKeyUp")
> Tried and failed to create a diff file for you...

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