Open link in new window

[Maximon]

Hello, guys!

I need to open link in new window or tab, but do it from my current window, else while doing _IECreate() I loose the session.

Something like right mouse button click - how can I do it, please help!

[FireFox]

Hello, guys!

I need to open link in new window or tab, but do it from my current window, else while doing _IECreate() I loose the session.

Something like right mouse button click - how can I do it, please help!

WinActivate('[CLASS:IEFrame]')
WinWaitActive('[CLASS:IEFrame]')
Send('^t') ;new tab
ControlSetText('[CLASS:IEFrame]', "", '[CLASS:Edit; INSTANCE:1]', 'http://www.autoitscript.com/')
;~ ControlClick('[CLASS:IEFrame]', "", '[CLASS:ToolbarWindow32; INSTANCE:3]', 1)
Send('{ENTER}')

Cheers, FireFox.

Edited September 9, 2009 by FireFox

[DaleHohm]

Here's a solution that does not use Send:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IE_Example()
$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE)
For $oLink in $oLinks
    If String(_IEPropertyGet($oLink, "innertext")) = "user forum" Then
        $oLink.target = "_blank"
        _IEAction($oLink, "click")
    EndIf
Next

Watch out for pop-up blockers that may block the new window.

Dale

[Maximon]

Dale - thanks, but in IE6 your solution doesn't work, it opens link in the same window

FireFox - looks good, but if I have few instances of IE, INSTANCE:1 opens new window from first one.

How can I get my current window number?

[Rishav]

WinActive and WinGetHandle?

try it. not sure as i haven't worked with any IE code so far.

[Maximon]

OK, I found.

It should be done before:

WinActivate(_IEPropertyGet($myIE,"hwnd"))

Also ControlSetText didn't work in my IE, so I did it another way:

$IEhandle = WinGetHandle('[CLASS:IEFrame; ACTIVE]')
$ie2 = _IEAttach ($IEhandle, "HWnd")
_IENavigate($ie2, $link)

[DaleHohm]

Dale - thanks, but in IE6 your solution doesn't work, it opens link in the same window

I can think of no reason for this to be the case with IE6. Nothing has changed in that DOM behavior to my knowledge. Can you verify that this works as you say in IE6 and works as I say in more recent IE versions? Did you run the code just as I supplied it to test or are you basing your feedback on an attempt to adapt my example to your code?

Dale