IE Select Index Value Integer

[JacobA]

$category_chooser = Number(GUICtrlRead($GUI_Category))
        
        $testing = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE_4, "select")
        For $u in $testing
                    _IEAction($u, "focus") 
                    _IEFormElementOptionSelect($u, $category_chooser, 1, "byIndex")
        Next

The above code is really basic, but it doesn't work.

It works if I delete "$category_chooser" inside the ...Optionselect method and stick in an integer myself, e.g. 6. But if $category_chooser is actually 6 it simply fails stating:

--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementOptionselect, $_IEStatus_InvalidValue (Invalid index value, 6)

What's up with that???

[MrMitchell]

What type of Control is $GUI_Category?

Are you testing $category_chooser before using it? I know you're already making it a Number before it even gets to your FOR loop, but still gotta ask.

[JacobA]

The gui control is a combo (chooser menu as I would rather call it). And it just has numbers from 1 to 19 as those are the indexes of the <select> I am trying to index within. It works fine if I write 6 in there... but not if I define a variable as 6, then place the variable in the method... so I am really confused.

[JacobA]

Ignore - I fixed it simply by using an input instead. I don't know why the integer was being passed differently with a combo.

[Juvigy]

Well . if you put:

$category_chooser = Number(GUICtrlRead($GUI_Category))
Consolewrite($category_chooser&@CRLF)

You will see why it happens like this.