Deprecated Methods

Camel Case

• activeObjectHighLightColor (Watir::Element)
• clearSecurityAlertBox (WinClicker)
• clearSelection (Watir::SelectList) should be renamed to clear to be consistent with other Watir classes
• clickButtonWithHandle (WinClicker)
• clickJSDialog_NewProcess (WinClicker)
• clickJSDialog_Thread (WinClicker)
• clickJavaScriptDialog (WinClicker)
• clickWindowsButton (WinClicker)
• clickWindowsButton_hwnd (WinClicker)
• deleteSpecialFolderContents (Watir::CookieManager::WatirHelper)
• dragContentsTo (Watir::TextField)
• fileCreatedDate (Watir::Image)
• fileSize (Watir::Image)
• getAllContents (Watir::SelectList)
• getChildHandle (WinClicker)
• getControlText (WinClicker)
• getFileRequesterFileName (WinClicker)
• getHandleOfControl (WinClicker)
• getParent (WinClicker)
• getSelectedItems (Watir::SelectList)
• getShortFileName (WinClicker)
• getSpecialFolderLocation (Watir::CookieManager::WatirHelper)
• getState (Watir::RadioCheckCommon)
• getStaticText (WinClicker)
• getStaticTextFromWindow (WinClicker)
• getStaticText_hWnd (WinClicker)
• getTextValueForFileNameField (WinClicker)
• getWindowHandle (WinClicker)
• getWindowTitle (WinClicker)
• hasLoaded? (Watir::Image)
• isSet? (Watir::RadioCheckCommon)
• makeWindowActive (WinClicker)
• setComboBoxText (WinClicker)
• setFileRequesterFileName (WinClicker)
• setFileRequesterFileName_newProcess (WinClicker)
• setTextBoxText (WinClicker)
• setTextValueForFileNameField (WinClicker)

Ways to Identify Object

• We can locate HTML tag by caption attribute, but according to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/attributes.html that attribute does not exist. It is now synonym for value, but I think it should be deprecated. WTR-186

Buggy

• after_text (Watir::Element)
• before_text (Watir::Element)

Additional

• screen_capture (Watir::ScreenCapture) should be replaced by Win32Screenshot

show_

• show_active (Watir::IE) => active.show
• show_all_objects (Watir::Container) => all_objects.show
• show_divs (Watir::IE) => divs.show
• show_forms (Watir::IE) => forms.show
• show_frames (Watir::PageContainer) => frames.show
• show_images (Watir::IE) => images.show
• show_labels (Watir::IE) => labels.show
• show_links (Watir::IE) => links.show
• show_pres (Watir::IE) => pres.show
• show_spans (Watir::IE) => spans.show
• show_tables (Watir::IE) => tables.show