Problem working with result of _IELinkGetCollection

[drego]

I'm trying to loop through a bunch of links and perform some operations. Here is my code:

$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($ie1)
$iNumLinks = @extended
For $oLink In $oLinks
If StringInStr($oLink.href,"offerdetails") > 0 Then
  _IENavigate($ie1,$oLink.href)
  $html = _IEBodyReadHTML($ie1)
  $offerName = _StringBetween($html,'DrkBlue">','</')
  ;MsgBox(0,"offer name",$offerName)
EndIf
Next

The If statement is evaluating true and it is visiting the first link. However, as soon as it visits the first link my program dies with the error:

The requested action with this object has failed.:

If StringInStr($oLink.href,"offerdetails") > 0 Then

If StringInStr($oLink.href^ ERROR

[drego]

cant sleep until i solve this

[DaleHohm]

As soon as you use _IENavigate, the current document and all of it's objects are destroyed (including $oLinks), so when it tries to loop again, neither $oLinks nor $oLink is valid any longer.

Perhaps you want to open a second browser and send your navigation to that browser so that your original context is preserved or perhaps you want to store all of the hrefs in an array and then loop through it... depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

Dale

[drego]

As soon as you use _IENavigate, the current document and all of it's objects are destroyed (including $oLinks), so when it tries to loop again, neither $oLinks nor $oLink is valid any longer.

Perhaps you want to open a second browser and send your navigation to that browser so that your original context is preserved or perhaps you want to store all of the hrefs in an array and then loop through it... depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

Dale

I think I would like to store them all in an array

[drego]

im having trouble creating the array. how should I do it?

[drego]

this is all wrong

$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($ie1)
$iNumLinks = @extended
Local $linkAr[$iNumLinks]
$place = 0
For $oLink In $oLinks
If StringInStr($oLink.href,"offerdetails") > 0 Then
  ;_IENavigate($ie1,$oLink.href)
  ;_ArrayAdd($linkAr,$oLink.href)
  $linkAr[$place] = $oLink.href
  $place = $place + 1
  ;$html = _IEBodyReadHTML($ie1)
  ;$offerName = _StringBetween($html,'DrkBlue">','</')
  ;MsgBox(0,"offer name",$offerName)
  MsgBox(0,"",$linkAr[4])
EndIf
Next