Storing a reference to a popup in a variable

peterfarsinsen

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out a way to store a reference to a popup, but so far I've not been able to figure out how to do so.

What I would like to do is something along the lines:

function getPopup() {
    return _popup('popupName');
}

var $pop = getPopup();
$pop._doSahiStuff();

In the above case $pop will be undefined even though _popup('popupName'); does find the popup. Calling _popup('popupName')._someSahiMethod(); does work, but that's not really as DRY as I would like it.

Is it possible at all to store a reference to a popup? If so please let me know how

Thanks in advance!

- Peter

narayan

Hi Peter,

You can do something else though. There is an API called _selectWindow(popupId). Have a look at _selectWindow() here: http://sahi.co.in/w/miscellaneous-apis

Regards,
Narayan

peterfarsinsen

Hi narayan,

Don't know how I missed that.

It's not exactly what I was looking for, but it's working very well.

Thanks for helping out!

Cheers,

Peter

narayan

You missed it because I added the docs after your question

Cheers,
Narayan

peterfarsinsen

Ha ha. Nice one!

On that note, are there any plans to restructure the API? I've been working with SAHI for a couple of weeks and I find the sectioning of topics on different pages a bit unintuitive and pretty hard to navigate (especially to search). I think having them all on one page is a better solution now.

Cheers,

- Peter

narayan

Are you suggesting that we should club all the Accessor, Action and Miscellaneous APIs together? That could definitely make API lookups easier.

peterfarsinsen

Yes, that's what I'm suggesting. I see why the API is split into three, but I'm often confused by it when looking for something.

As an example the _log(), _wait() and all of the assertion methods could just as well be placed on the misc. page.

I really depends on how you use the API, but as a big fan of the browsers built in page search, having it all on one page would make sense Other might not agree.

- Peter