Issue with Childwindow Handling

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What steps will reproduce the problem with a public website ?

1.Open a url using selinium VBA wrapper
2.Click on a link that opens a child browser popup window
3.Use selectWindow method to give focus to child window
4.Close the child window by clicking on cancel button
5.Selinium object will loose focus and will not be able to switch the focus 
back to parent window
i got the below error .Method <selectWindow> failed !
InvalidOperationException: Session [5d2c2259-d62b-4485-a682-09b6a8afef96] has 
no driver. The browser window may have been closed.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected output is selinium should be able to switch the focus back to 
parentwindow after closing the childwindow using code

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nit.li...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2014 at 3:35

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You can save the windows' ids before switching to the 2nd window and once it's 
been closed, switch back to the first one:
 wins= wd.WindowHandles
 wd.switchToWindow wins(1)
 ...
 wd.switchToWindow wins(0)

Or you can switch back to the 1st window by using its name if there is one 
defined:
 wd.switchToWindow "2nd window name"
 ...
 wd.switchToWindow "1st window name"

Original comment by florentbr on 8 Apr 2014 at 5:14

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Support
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Hi Florent,

Thanks for your quick response. I was not able to use the work around you have 
suggested. Please find the below piece of code i am using in my project. 
Request you to have a look at my code and correct me if i am doing anything 
wrong.

Shouldn't it be a high priority bug? Child windows are very common in web 
applications.It will be difficult to use selinium, if it doesn't have a method 
to switch the focus back to parent window after closing child window.

Public Function fn_DriverScript(ByVal strurl, ByVal struid, ByVal strpaswd)

    Dim selenium

    Set selenium = CreateObject("SeleniumWrapper.WebDriver")
    selenium.Start "firefox", strurl

    selenium.setImplicitWait 5000

    'Login to application
    selenium.Open "/cgi/max/admin_login.w"
    selenium.Type "name=h_tUserName", struid
    selenium.Type "name=h_pPassword", strpaswd
    selenium.clickAndWait "css=input.save"

    'click on button.this will open up a child window
    selenium.Click "css=img[name=""h_hButtonHV""]"
    strParentWindowTitle = selenium.Title 'value is MAX: /cgi/max: Workstation

    'Below line will switch the focus to child window
    selenium.selectWindow "title=Mortgage Offers Search Option Screen"
    selenium.clickAndWait "id=hbskip" 'Close the child window and this will load a new page in parent window

    'Switch the focus back to parentwindow
    selenium.selectWindow "title=" & strParentWindowTitle

    strErrDescription = Err.Description

    'captured error was "Window not found. The browser window may have been closed."

    'Execution is stuck as selinium object instance is set to null after closing the child window

End Function

Original comment by nit.li...@gmail.com on 9 Apr 2014 at 7:50

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> I was not able to use the work around you have suggested
This is not a work around. This is how it needs to be handled with the Selenium 
framework and for every binding language.
It could be a timing issue as you're saying that the parent window is reloaded 
just after child window is closed.
The parent could still be loading and be without a title when the selectWindow 
is called. Try to add a delay(selenium.wait 1000) before selecting the parent 
window to see if it's the case.
I add a look in the documentation and found this command which selects the 
original window instantiated by the browser :
 wd.selectWindow "null"

You can also select the remaining window once the child window is closed:
 hwnds= wd.WindowHandles
 selenium.selectWindow hwnds(0)

> Shouldn't it be a high priority bug?
Priority is here to decorate and until proven that it diverts from the designed 
behaviour, it's not a bug.
Bug tickets won't be visible by default after being closed whereas support 
tickets will still be and will provide documentation for others.

> Execution is stuck as selenium object instance is set to null after closing 
the child window
What makes you think the selenium object instance is null?
I may be wrong, but I'm certain that the Selenium instance is not null while 
the script is running and the browser still opened.

Original comment by florentbr on 9 Apr 2014 at 11:02

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Original comment by florentbr on 8 Sep 2014 at 5:40

• Changed state: Done