HazyDavy Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Hello.I am building an AutoIt 3.3.0.0 application that has to drill down into frames and iframes to manipulate the contents of input boxes and other form elements.My script works fine, except for one thing: One of the iframes I have to reference changes name each time it's generated. It has a similar name each time (it always begins with "s_100_") but never the same name.It appears to me that _IEFrameGetObjByName() requires a complete string as an argument -- there is no support for partial matches, wildcards, or regular expressions. It also appears to be that older versions of AutoIt allowed partial matches, but that this was considered a bug and has now been fixed.Is there any way to recognize partial matches in _IEFrameGetObjByName()?Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleHohm Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 I don't believe partial name matches were ever supported. Suggest you look at _IEFrameGetCollection and get the frame by index number or look at _IETagnameGetCollection($oIE, "iframe") and loop through the individual frames with a For Next loop and check the .name properties for your match. Dale Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curl MSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object model Automate input type=file (Related) Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded Better Better? IE.au3 issues with Vista - Workarounds SciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead? Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HazyDavy Posted September 26, 2009 Author Share Posted September 26, 2009 Thanks, Dale. I'll approach it that way -- I was hoping there'd be an easier way. Consider this a feature request! Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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