[Wtr-general] Drag and drop

[Andy Sipe]

Hello Max,

I was the author of the code at that link.   It was more proof of concept 
than anything else and I haven't even checked recently to see if it still 
works against the live site.

One thing to keep in mind is that the code I wrote (the ruby/Watir side of 
things) isn't a general script for managing drag and drop.   It works with 
the specific example at script.aculo.us.   I built it by reverse engineering 
the script.aculo.us javascript and doing the appropriate ruby/watir things 
to simulate the drag/drop.  I would not expect it to work for any javascript 
code other than the script.aculo.us scripts.

There also isn't a whole lot that requires Watir in this code - it is mostly 
just plain DOM injection of events and such.

Not sure that helps but....

--andy





----Original Message Follows----
From: "Max Russell" <mrussell at inpses.co.uk>
Reply-To: wtr-general at rubyforge.org
To: <wtr-general at rubyforge.org>
Subject: [Wtr-general] Drag and drop
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:39:53 +0100

Hi there-



I have been looking at calling javascript and manipulating the DOM in
order to drag drop some images:



I am working of an example I found here:
zbarzone.blogspot.com/2006/05/drag-and-drop-with-watir.html





Code looks like this



require 'test/unit'

require 'watir'



class Watir::IE

   def run_script(js)

     ie.Document.parentWindow.execScript(js)

   end

end



class TestWatir < Test::Unit::TestCase

   def test_drag_and_drop

ie = Watir::IE.start('http://testaddress.com)

             ie.frame("main").text_field(:name,
"username").set("USERNAME")

             ie.frame("main").text_field(:name,
"password").set("PASSWORD")

             ie.frame("main").select_list(:name,
"ldapDir").select("DOMAIN")

             ie.frame("main").button(:name, "Login").click



             #expand the admin node

             ie.frame("left").link(:index, 35).click

             #click on the data management link

             ie.frame("left").link(:index, 54).click



             #Enter a search string into the search field.

             ie.frame("main").text_field(:id,
"Search_box").set("SEARCHSTRING")

             #Click to search

             ie.frame("main").button(:id, "btn_search").click



             ie.frame("main").run_script("document.blah =
document.createEventObject(); document.blah.button = 1")


ie.frame("main").run_script("document.getElementById('10439,10439').fire
Event('onmousedown', document.blah)")

             ie.frame("main").run_script("document.blah =
document.createEventObject(); document.blah.clientX =
document.getElementById('search_results'); document.blah.clientY =
document.getElementById('drop_p1')")#.offsetLeft .offsetTop


ie.frame("main").run_script("document.getElementById('10439,10439').fire
Event('onmousemove', document.blah)")


ie.frame("main").run_script("document.getElementById('10439,10439').fire
Event('onmouseup', document.blah)")

     #end



     end

   end





This is all fine, I can access the object I want - the div element
10439,10439' but it never moves it to the drop





Doing a divs.show of the frame I am accessing gives this:



index id                  className

1     background          merge_background

2     search

3     search_patients_wrappermerge_box

4     search_wrapper      merge_search_results_wrapper

5     wait_msg

6     search_results      merge_search_results

7     10439,10459         People_Widget

8     10439,10439         People_Widget

9     merge_next_10       merge_next_10

10    pat1                merge_box

11    drop_p1             drop_zone

12    drop_p1_toolbar     tool_bar

13    person_one          person_one

14    p1_body             merge_body

15    pat2                merge_box

16    drop_p2             drop_zone

17    drop_p2_toolbar     tool_bar

18    person_two          person_two

19    p2_body             merge_body

20    button_panel        merge_btn_panel

21    reports             dm_reports

22    invisible





So why won't the People_Widget I'm trying to move, move?



Max Russell

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