Getting coordinates of a button

[pchakraborty]

Hi

I am new to AutoIt. I am trying to get the coordinates of a button in a page. I am not able to do so. I tried by hard coding the mouse cordinates displayed in the AutoIt Window Info tool and it works. By the same coordinates don't work in some other machine. Please suggest some way to find the coordinates of the button dynamically, irrespective of machine I am executing my script, so that I could go to that coordinate and mouse click on that button.

Please help.

I am currently trying this code as below

WinActivate("Online Community - Windows Internet Explorer");

ControlClick("Online Community - Windows Internet Explorer", "", "Browse...", "left", 1);

WinWait("Choose File to Upload");

WinActivate("Choose File to Upload");

ControlSetText("Choose File to Upload", "", "[CLASS:Edit; INSTANCE:1]", "D:\Image1.jpg");

ControlClick("Choose File to Upload", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:2]");

Thanks

Parikshit

Edited December 24, 2010 by pchakraborty

[Melba23]

pchakraborty,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum.

ControlGetPos should get you the position of the button, but as you already have sufficient ID information to try and use ControlClick I am somewhat at a loss to see why you need it.

Furthermore, if the ID information is not good enough to let you use ControlClick, then I would be very surprised if it was sufficient to get the position either!

M23

[pchakraborty]

Hi

Thanks for the reply. But let me explain you clearly what I am facing.

I have one webpage and there is a Browse button in that page to select and upload file. Initially i tried with ControlClick as below

ControlClick("Online Community Windows Internet Explorer", "", "&fileData", "left", 1)

But the script is not able to proceed further. Rather, it is getting stuck in that statement and not working for me.

Then I tried with MouseClick, but for that I had to provide both X&Y coordinates. I got those coordinates through Info tool and it was working fine for the moment. Next moment the coordinates got changed and my script failed.

For getting the coordinates of the Browse button dynamically, I tried ControlGetPos also, but its giving me the coordinates of the page i am in, rather than the coordinates of the button. The info tool always gives me the ControlID for the Browse button as 0.

I am currently trying the code as below:

dim $pos;

WinActivate("Online Community Windows Internet Explorer");

$pos = ControlGetPos("Online Community Windows Internet Explorer", "", "&fileData");

MouseClick("left", $pos[0], $pos[1], 2)

WinWait("Choose File to Upload");

WinActivate("Choose File to Upload");

Sleep(1000);

ControlSetText("Choose File to Upload", "", "[CLASS:Edit; INSTANCE:1]", "D:\Pic1.jpg");

Sleep(1000);

ControlClick("Choose File to Upload", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:2]");

Sleep(1000);

fileData is the name of the button.

But unfortunately, that is also not working. Really no idea how to proceed and what else to try. Please help

Thanks

pchakraborty

Edited December 25, 2010 by pchakraborty

[Melba23]

pchakraborty,

Apologies, I did not notice you were trying to interact with a web page - although the clue was there: "Online Community Windows Internet Explorer".

Look at the IE management UDF in the Help file - there are lots of functions there to help you interact with web pages (if you use IE of course). They act directly on the page, so you will not have the coordinate problem on differenet machines when you use them.

M23

[pchakraborty]

Hi

Thanks for your reply. But I need my script to work in different browsers like firefox,chrome, safari etc and not only in IE. Could you please suggest how should I proceed and solve this problem?

Thanks

pchakraborty

[Santhoshi_ch]

Hi @pchakraborty Did you get any solution for this? Because I am having the same issue now.

[Musashi]

26 minutes ago, Santhoshi_ch said:

Hi @pchakraborty Did you get any solution for this? Because I am having the same issue now.

Since the user @pchakraborty has not been active in the forum for 13 years, you will probably not receive an answer from him. Therefore, it would be better to start a new thread.

Regarding your question: The following links should help you  :

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/WebDriver#FAQ