just_add_watir | Advanced recipes for Watir » url http://justaddwatir.com Advanced recipes for Watir Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:44:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 How do I get the URL in IE? http://justaddwatir.com/2008/how-do-i-get-the-url-in-ie/ http://justaddwatir.com/2008/how-do-i-get-the-url-in-ie/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:02:10 +0000 admin http://justaddwatir.com/watir/?p=41 A. Use the autoit function library with the win32OLE extension library...
You will need to install autoit. You can download it here, once installed you can call the function library using the win32OLE extension library.

require 'watir'
require 'rubygems'
require 'win32ole'
autoit = WIN32OLE.new('AutoItX3.Control')
url = autoit.ControlGetText("[CLASS:IEFrame]", "", "Edit1")
puts "url is " + url

The defintion for the autoit function 'ControlGetText' is ControlGetText(title, text, controlId)
You can use the "AutoIt Window Info" tool to find the title and controlId, you do not need to use the 'text' parameter. I find that using the Class instead of the window title a neater and more accurate solution.

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