[Webtest] Question on support of javascript events

[Marc Guillemot]

Hi Kishore,

MVS, Nanda Kishore wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am having a problem with select elements in html that fire 
> javascript functions on onchange events. When I use <setSelectField> 
> element, Canoo never seems to fire the onChange event or run the 
> associated javascript function. For example, on change of one select 
> box, the contents of another select box are filtered in my page. But 
> the <setSelectField> element for the second select box doesn’t work 
> since the onChange event for the first select box hasn’t fired to 
> filter contents of second select box. I’d like to know if Canoo does 
> not support such events or if my javascript is particularly bad.
>

onchange events are triggered when you use <setSelectField>. Do you have 
any exception due to js code execution? Which build of webtest do you use?

> Arising from this, can I not call a javascript function declared in 
> the page through the <scriptStep> element? For example, /<scriptStep> 
> doSomeThing();</scriptStep>/ should work if doSomeThing() is a 
> function defined in my page. But I get a message saying doSomeThing() 
> is not defined. I have tried to explicitly enable javascript through 
> <enableJavaScript> element also but to no avail. I would appreciate it 
> greatly if someone can throw a little more light on the working of 
> <scriptStep> element.
>
the <scriptStep> allow to script webtest but not to access the js inside 
the loaded page.

Marc.