[Wtr-general] IE.GoTo - Can You Set A Timeout or an Idle?

[Paul Rogers]

I think a long time ago, over a year, I posted a modified wait method that 
would do this. Since then watir has changed a lot so it may not be 
applicable any more

Paul
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From: "Norm" <forum-watir-users at openqa.org>
To: <wtr-general at rubyforge.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] IE.GoTo - Can You Set A Timeout or an Idle?


> It looks like there is an enhancement request for this:
>
> http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-46
>
> * IMO this is a critical addition for Watir as pages not loading 
> completely are more common than you would think
>
> The original RubyForge answer was:
>
> "I think you can do this simply by wrapping the call in a thread
> with a timeout. We should document how to do this, but i think
> the best solution would not be to build this into the Watir tool."
>
> I am not familiar with Threading and making Timeouts in such a way. I have 
> tried it before however, with code I found on the net (it is in message 
> #4, search for "ie.goto("www" to find it):
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/wtr-general@rubyforge.org/msg04433.html
>
> I am open to this type of workaround if anyone knows how to do it...
>
> Again, thanks for any help...
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