Just using the win32 apis with things like FindWindow to check the popup 
window is showing?

Jim Knowlton wrote:
> I am a QA Engineer implementing a Ruby-based test framework to test
> the applications in my organization...the issue I have is about 20% of
> what we do is Windows Forms (.NET) applications...can I use Win32OLE
> for this, or would I need to use something like Ruby .NET or
> IronRuby?  Basically the idea of the application under test is that it
> makes a socket connection to a server, then the server passes messages
> to it.  When a message is passed of a particular type, a "screen pop"
> is generated.  So what I want to do in a Ruby test is to:
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> 1.  Set up a mock of the server and establish connection with the
> application.
> 2.  Send the application a message which should result in a screen
> pop.
> 3.  Verify the screen pop came up.
>
> Anyway...any advice on this is greatly appreciated.  I've done some
> Ruby work but am a newbie as it pertains to using it to access
> Windows.
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> Jim
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