Problems reading text from an IE page...

[fly]

So I've got some code together that grabs the text from an already existing webpage. The problem I'm having is that sometimes the page refreshes, and I end up with this error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include\IE.au3 (1964) : ==> Variable must be of type "Object".:
Return SetError($_IEStatus_Success, 0, $o_object.document.body.innerText)
Return SetError($_IEStatus_Success, 0, $o_object.document.body^ ERROR
->12:16:25 AutoIT3.exe ended.rc:1

The code simply is:

$oIE = _IEAttach ($sURL, "URL")
        $sBody = _IEBodyReadText ($oIE)

The attach happens fine, but the ReadText fails. And I guess since its failing inside the IE.au3 script, none of my error checking seems to be working. Suggestions on what Im doing wrong?

[Miniz]

Do you really need the ie?

If you just need to get the source of the webpage you can use:

$dom = InetRead("URL", 1) ; 1 ~ Force reload of the webpage.

[fly]

Do you really need the ie?

If you just need to get the source of the webpage you can use:

$dom = InetRead("URL", 1) ; 1 ~ Force reload of the webpage.

Yes, I need to use the IE window already loaded on the machine.

[Miniz]

Yes, I need to use the IE window already loaded on the machine.

You could try checking if $oIE is an object before reading anything from it.

Dunno if it helps, but its probably worth a shot.

$oIE = _IEAttach ($sURL, "URL")

If IsObj($oIE) Then

$sBody = _IEBodyReadText ($oIE)

EndIf

EDIT: That wouldn't help at all -__-

try this:

If IsObj($oIE.document.body) Then

$sBody = _IEBodyReadText ($oIE)

EndIf

Edited February 25, 2011 by Miniz

[fly]

You could try checking if $oIE is an object before reading anything from it.

Dunno if it helps, but its probably worth a shot.

$oIE = _IEAttach ($sURL, "URL")

If IsObj($oIE) Then

$sBody = _IEBodyReadText ($oIE)

EndIf

EDIT: That wouldn't help at all -__-

try this:

If IsObj($oIE.document.body) Then

$sBody = _IEBodyReadText ($oIE)

EndIf

The problem is that the Attach works fine, if the page refreshes while its actually reading the text tho - things blow up.

[DaleHohm]

Add _IELoadWait($oIE) before your _IEBodyReadText to insure the refresh has completed prior.

Dale

[fly]

Add _IELoadWait($oIE) before your _IEBodyReadText to insure the refresh has completed prior.

Dale

I totally missed that option. I think that resolved it. Thank you!!!

[Miniz]

The problem is that the Attach works fine, if the page refreshes while its actually reading the text tho - things blow up.

Thats caused by that "body" isn't a object while refreshing the page. Because it's not loaded yet.