[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Trapping Popup Windows in Browser

[Benjamin Pasero <bpasero@xxxxxxxxxx>]

See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=77611

Ben

> I'm using the SWT Browser object in a Windows environment to do some
> simple automated work on some Javascript-heavy websites.
>
> On occasion I receive popup windows from the embedded IE control with
> the title "Internet Explorer Scripting Error". The popup then explains
> why some object on line xxxxx couldn't be found. It then prompts me to
> respond with Yes or No if I want to continue to execute Javascript on
> this page. Full IE (and other browsers) load the page fine. I'm guessing
> the SWT Browser isn't quite full blown due to some tweaking done to make
> it more platform independent or some such.
>
> Since I can't change the website so that it plays nicer with this SWT
> Browser control, I'm thinking I need to some how suppress this message
> either by ignoring it (so the automated tool can continue) or even
> better yet, by pressing Yes.
>
> I've looked at the Browser (and related) source code and can't seem to
> get to get it to suppress anything. I don't want Javascript alerts and
> such either jumping up at me, but that's almost another story. The
> WindowOpenerListener would be fine if I was dealing with
> window.open's, but I'm not.
>
> Does anyone have any clues on this one?
>
> Andrew