[Wtr-general] how to minimize command prompt of ruby.exe

[Charley Baker]

Change your system call to call rubyw which won't open a command window:

c = "start rubyw #{shortName}\\watir\\clickJSDialog.rb #{button} #{waitTime} "


Here's more information in the Pickaxe book:
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/win32.html

-Charley

On 12/21/06, VIKASH KUMAR <vikashkumar051 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> I running test cases under Windows Environment, using ruby, watir
> 1.5.1.1100.
>
>
>
> I have the following code:
>
> require 'watir' # the watir controller
>
> require 'watir/winClicker.rb'
> require 'watir\contrib\enabled_popup'
>
> test = "C:\\aa.htm"
>
> ie=Watir::IE.start(test)
>
>
>
>
>
> def startClicker( button,ie,waitTime = 3)
>    w = WinClicker.new
>    longName = ie.dir.gsub("/" , "\\" )
>    shortName = w.getShortFileName(longName)
>    c = "start ruby #{shortName}\\watir\\clickJSDialog.rb #{button} #{waitTime}
> "
>    puts "Starting #{c}"
>    w.winsystem(c)
>    w=nil
>  end
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> startClicker("OK",ie,3)
> ie.button("Submit").click
>
>
>
>
>
> The above is working fine, but when the method startClicker is called, it
> displays a command shell/prompt of ruby.exe, showing some message.  I want
> the command shell/prompt doesn't comes up or if it is necessary for the
> prompt to come up, it should open in minimized state.
>
>
>
> Please, help me out from this.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Vikash
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