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if you know the name of the window you can do

selenium.click("elementToLaunchPopup");
selenium.waitForPopup("nameOfWindow",30000);
selenium.selectWindow("nameOfWindow");
// rest of your test

To get back to the main window you will need to selenium.selectWindow("null");

AutomatedTester 2010-09-30 17:24:36

Hi, that does not work, becuase the popups created with Window.createPopup() do not allow to specify a name. It's not like the regular window.open function. It's something related with the creation of HTML dynamic and it's a feature that only applies to IE.

Kari 2010-09-30 19:09:36

You can also try getAllWindowIds and then loop through them to find your window. Popups are notoriously hard to work with.

AutomatedTester 2010-09-30 20:50:51

Answer 2

+1 A:

Unfortunately, no. window.createPopup isn't accessible to Selenium. Being an IE only feature it has really limited portability and generally isn't a best practice. I know that's of little consolation to you, because I assume your stuck with someone else's code that's used createPopup.

The real problem is that craeatePopup doesn't add anything to the DOM. Try opening a popup object and viewing it's source. You'll see this:

<html><body></body></html>

So there's nothing really there for Selenium to grab hold of.

What does the popup do for your application? You indicated it provides some navigation, can you just navigate to those pages directly?

pnewhook 2010-10-01 15:22:02

yes, as you mention, I'm stuck in someone else code. :) The popup is kind of right click menu, this menu is created with this Windows.CreatePopup method. And the navigation it provides is based on the element you had right-clicked, so I cannot navigate it directly. I'm trying to find out a way to do it, but it seems that it does not exists. Thank you!

Kari 2010-10-01 15:34:03

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