Right Click an Element - Watir

Work in Progress

This example is still being worked on, if you have any comments please add them to the page.

This example uses the getBoundingClientRect method and AutoIt to effectively achieve a right click on an element. In this example, I added a method to the Element class in Watir (originally provided by Paul Rogers here) and then use AutoIt's MouseClick method to send the right click. Subsequent to that you can use the Send method to navigate the context menu. In my example, I want to do a "Save Target As" in order to save the source of a link I want to follow (in my case it was a huge XML file).

UPDATE:
With some help from Bill Agee (see this thread - thanks Bill!), we have come across a workable solution which you see below. I have done some limited testing on this and it seems to work but YMMV. This method has some better recognition for where the element is in relation to the IE page (which was tripping me up before). If you have any feedback on this please leave a comment on this page.

require 'watir'

module Watir
  class Element
    def top_edge
      assert_exists
      assert_enabled
      ole_object.getBoundingClientRect.top.to_i
    end

    def top_edge_absolute
      top_edge + page_container.document.parentWindow.screenTop.to_i
    end

    def left_edge
      assert_exists
      assert_enabled
      ole_object.getBoundingClientRect.left.to_i
    end

    def left_edge_absolute
      left_edge + page_container.document.parentWindow.screenLeft.to_i
    end

    def right_click
      x = left_edge_absolute
      y = top_edge_absolute
      #puts "x: #{x}, y: #{y}"
      WindowsInput.move_mouse(x, y)
      WindowsInput.right_click
    end
  end
end 

module WindowsInput
  # Windows API functions
  SetCursorPos = Win32API.new('user32','SetCursorPos', 'II', 'I')
  SendInput = Win32API.new('user32','SendInput', 'IPI', 'I') 
  # Windows API constants
  INPUT_MOUSE = 0 
  MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN = 0x0002 
  MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP = 0x0004 
  MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTDOWN = 0x0008 
  MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTUP = 0x0010 

  module_function
  
  def send_input(inputs) 
    n = inputs.size 
    ptr = inputs.collect {|i| i.to_s}.join # flatten arrays into single string 
    SendInput.call(n, ptr, inputs[0].size) 
  end

  def create_mouse_input(mouse_flag) 
    mi = Array.new(7, 0) 
    mi[0] = INPUT_MOUSE 
    mi[4] = mouse_flag 
    mi.pack('LLLLLLL') # Pack array into a binary sequence usable to SendInput 
  end 

  def move_mouse(x, y)
    SetCursorPos.call(x, y)
  end

  def right_click
    rightdown = create_mouse_input(MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTDOWN) 
    rightup = create_mouse_input(MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTUP) 
    send_input( [rightdown, rightup] )
  end
end

def main()
  # Open google index page, and send a right click to the logo image
  ie = Watir::IE.new()
  ie.goto('http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm')
  ie.link(:text, 'Click here').focus
  ie.link(:text, 'Click here').right_click
  # Then, bring up the properties menu (works with IE6, at least)
  ie.send_keys("{DOWN}{DOWN}{DOWN}{ENTER}")
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  main
end