quick question IE.au3

[foolove]

$sURL = "myurl.com"

$oIE = _IECreate($sURL, 0, 0, 0)

$HWND = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")

WinSetState($HWND, "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)

_IEAction($oIE, "visible")

_IELoadWait($oIE)

after I go to a site I want to follow a link on a site I did do and it seemed to work but was wondering if there was a best practice way to do this I did this as a simple guess

$sURL = "myurl.com/linktourl"

$oIE = _IECreate($sURL, 0, 0, 0)

$HWND = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")

WinSetState($HWND, "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)

_IEAction($oIE, "visible")

_IELoadWait($oIE)

I noticed on the above I do create another IE instance would like to stay in teh same IE but foward to the new url

Also I was wondering on forms for drop down list boxes say a form element with name blah and the option value for a dropdown list box is 3 the desired element value how would I specify this??

Also on input fields boxes I know their value as well so instead of doing mouseclick in the field box how can i specify a input value on

dropdown list boxes and text boxes

Edited October 4, 2011 by foolove

[MrMitchell]

Go through all the _IE* functions in the Help File and check out the examples...you should find everything you need...

$sURL = "myurl.com/linktourl"

$oIE = _IECreate($sURL, 0, 0, 0)

$HWND = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")

WinSetState($HWND, "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)

_IEAction($oIE, "visible")

_IELoadWait($oIE)

I noticed on the above I do create another IE instance would like to stay in teh same IE but foward to the new url

You will want to use _IENavigate() when you want to change URL.

Also I was wondering on forms for drop down list boxes say a form element with name blah and the option value for a dropdown list box is 3 the desired element value how would I specify this??

Try... _IEFormElementOptionselect() ??

Also on input fields boxes I know their value as well so instead of doing mouseclick in the field box how can i specify a input value on

dropdown list boxes and text boxes

Dropdown = _IEFormElementOptionselect()

Text box = _IEFormElementSetValue()