[Solved] How to Create a LoadWait that only Waits for the Page(HTML file), and not the Images?

[Zohar]

Hello


Sometimes when Automating IE, I load a webpage, and of course LoadWait for it till it's fully loaded, and then do my operations.

But sometimes, I need to load a webpage, and have all the HTML loaded, but no need to wait for the Images to load,
meaning I can start the automation once the Page is loaded, but not needing anything from the images/other-objects on the page.


Is there a special kind of LoadWait(or, can such one be created) so I will Wait only for the page and not the objects on it?
Something like "LoadWaitWithoutImages()"..


It can be of great use!


Thank you

BTW, I am using IE8

Edited September 3, 2013 by Zohar

[Country73]

Did you look at _IELoadWait or _IELoadWaitTimeout?

[StandardUser]

The simplest workaround could be disabling "Show Pictures" in IE options

[water]

If memory serves me well a similar request was solved by waiting for an object to exist. In a loop the existance of the object (I think it was a button) was checked and if it was found processing continued.

This approach means you have to do it yourself.

Edit: Something like this.

Edited July 23, 2010 by water

[Zohar]

Country73:

Of course I did.

871:

disabling "Show Pictures" could've been good If I could do it easily.

but right now the only 2 ways I know to do it, are either automating the GUI(which will slow the script I am writing),

or changing the relevant value in Windows Registry

(which is a fast way, but cannot be done for an existing IE

you have to do it before you open the IE instance, and when you want to resume seeing the pictures, again you cannot do it for the existing IE, because if you change the registry value, it will be updated only for newer IE windows you open).

Do you have another way to Enable/Disable showing the images in IE?

If I had "live" way to do it(for existing windows I mean) without automating the GUI, it could've been great.

water:

That Idea is very nice!

I can write a small functions that waits for the HTML object I want to automate(for example the TextBox I want to fill), and once it exists, I can start automating it.

ok this is my attempt for water's idea..

I will be more specific with my example:

take for example Google Maps:

I want to Load maps.google.com, but not wait for the whole Map Image to load,

and instead, Set some Text in the TextBox as soon as possible - as soon as the page is loaded, even without the images.

Here's what I tried:

$oIE    =_IECreate("maps.google.com",1,1,0)

While $oIE.document.getElementsByName("q").item(0)=0
    Sleep(100)
    Beep(1000,50)       ;This beep should be heard as long as we're waiting for the Object
WEnd

$oIE.document.getElementsByName("q").item(0).innerText  ="test!!!!"

anyone knows why it doesn't work?

Edited October 31, 2010 by Zohar