Watin - Handling Confirm Dialogs with ConfirmDialogHandler

Question

Using Watin, I'm trying to handle a confirm dialog box and tell watin to press "OK". This is reasoanbly well documented on the internet - you use a ConfirmDialogHandler and the UseDialogOnce method.. Except it isn't working for me. I get the following error:

WatiN.Core.Exceptions.WatiNException: Dialog not available within 5 seconds

I'm using the watin 2.0 beta atm, but I was previously using an earlier version of 1.X which had the same issue. Tested on a colleagues machine running 64 bit Vista, I'm running 64 bit Windows 7.

The code looks like this:

        using (IE ie = new IE("http://localhost/TestApp/TestConfirmPage.asp"))
        {
            var approveConfirmDialog = new ConfirmDialogHandler();

            using (new UseDialogOnce(ie.DialogWatcher, approveConfirmDialog))
            {
                ie.Button(Find.ByName("btn")).ClickNoWait();
                approveConfirmDialog.WaitUntilExists(5);
                approveConfirmDialog.OKButton.Click();
            }
            ie.WaitForComplete();
        }

The ASP page is very simple, it consists of a button that forces a confirm, like this:

<input type="button" name="btn" id="btn" value="Click me" onclick="ConfirmApp()"  />

And ConfirmApp has been stripped down for testing so that now all it contains is:

 bOK = confirm("You clicked a popup. Did you mean to?");
 return bOK;

Related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5626538/watin-ie9-cant-click-ok-buttons/9769242#9769242 — Bill the Lizard, Mar 19 '12 at 12:10

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '09 at 09:54

The code looks fine to me, and I think it should work. The only think I did differently it was to put Wait for Complete inside using Dialog block. Don't know why but before I did that I also have some issues, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. And I don't use time limitation at Wait until exists. But you probably already tried that one.

For example:

using (new UseDialogOnce(ie.DialogWatcher, approveConfirmDialog))
        {
            ie.Button(Find.ByName("btn")).ClickNoWait();
            approveConfirmDialog.WaitUntilExists();
            approveConfirmDialog.OKButton.Click();
            ie.WaitForComplete();
        }

Using a combination of code changes like this and a refresh of the DLLs sorted it. — Matt Roberts, Aug 13 '10 at 15:14

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 08 '12 at 16:41

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I had the same problem and tried many things but just overlooked one part i was calling .Click() and then just changed it to .ClickNoWait() and things sorted. Hope this helps

answered Dec 08 '12 at 16:41

MAK

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 22 '12 at 23:40

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I was facing the same issue and no matter what I do it was not working until I found a workaround which take time but work for me.

The default time to elapse for WaitUntilExists() is 30 secs so when using it in IE9 provide extended time limit as following.

handler.WaitUntilExists(40); // or whatever time suits you above 30

It certainly take time but it works.

edited Mar 22 '12 at 23:40

Neysor

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answered Mar 19 '12 at 11:09

Jawad Hashim

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 30 '13 at 16:51

Just spent a couple of hours with variations on the dialog watcher solution. Nothing worked for me in IE9.

I ended up with a one-liner that works for me, hope it helps somebody else! This approach completely avoids trying to deal with the dialog by using user key presses instead.

For OK. Do all steps leading up to button ClickNoWait, then:

SendKeys.SendWait("{ENTER}");

For CANCEL. Do all steps leading up to element ClickNoWait, then: SendKeys.SendWait("{TAB}"); SendKeys.SendWait("{ENTER}");

nb: using System.Windows.Forms

Watin - Handling Confirm Dialogs with ConfirmDialogHandler

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