Need help with select item in IE dropdown list

[newcome]

in the web page http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/vcsource-samples-optimizing-opencl/

There is a" Select sample" dropdown list . At first I thought I might be able to use " _IEFormElementOptionselect" to select the item. After I checked the html source file, the "download-samples" option was not inside "form".

If I can not use _IEFormElementOptionselect to select the option, is there any other way I can use AutoIt to select the iterm from the IE dropdown list?

the html sorce code for "download-samples":

<div id="download-samples"><select> <option>Select sample...</option> <option value="http://software.intel.com/file/43405">Download this sample only</option> <option value="http://software.intel.com/file/43406">Download all OpenCL samples</option> </select> <a href="#" class="button sampledownload" title="Download">DOWNLOAD</a></div>

Edited July 19, 2012 by newcome

[MrMitchell]

#include <IE.au3>
$site = "http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/vcsource-samples-optimizing-opencl/"
$oIE = _IECreate($site)
$oDownloadSamples = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "download-samples")
$oDownloadSamplesSelect = _IETagNameGetCollection($oDownloadSamples, "select", 0)
$oDownloadSamplesSelect.focus
_IEFormElementOptionSelect($oDownloadSamplesSelect, "Download all OpenCL samples", 1, "byText")

Forgot to explain...

Line 3 - Creates the IE window

Line 4 - Get reference to the "download-samples" DIV

Line 5 - Get the first instance of "select option" object (index number = 0) within "download-samples" DIV

Line 6 - Focus the drop-down (without this the option you want still gets selected but not visibly)

Line 7 - Select it

Edited July 19, 2012 by MrMitchell

[newcome]

MrMitchell, Thank you very very much! You solved my problem, which I spent a few days on!

I love this community and you all are so helpful!

Edited July 19, 2012 by newcome

[MrMitchell]

You're welcome but just remember there's no error checking so you risk script crash without it. Also, might want to replace the .focus with "_IEAction()" and use the "focus" action since it's already in the UDF. I don't use IE UDF a lot so I forget what's in there or somehow just miss these things in the help file.

[newcome]

#include <IE.au3>

$site = "http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/vcsource-samples-optimizing-opencl/"
$option = "Download all OpenCL samples"
Local $oIE = _IECreate($site)
Local $oDownloadSamples = _IEGetObjById($oIE,"download-samples")
Local $oDownloadSamplesSelect = _IETagNameGetCollection($oDownloadSamples, "select", 0)
_IEAction($oDownloadSamplesSelect, "focus")

For $sample in $oDownloadSamplesSelect
If $sample.innerText == $option Then
_IEFormElementOptionSelect($oDownloadSamplesSelect, $option, 1, "byText")
EndIf
Next

MrMitchell, you are so through and helpfule Thank you vvery much! You are right that there is a UDF _IEACtion() can be use with "focus"

Edited July 20, 2012 by newcome

[Hanukka]

On 7/20/2012 at 1:16 AM, MrMitchell said:

$oDownloadSamples = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "download-samples")

$oDownloadSamplesSelect = _IETagNameGetCollection($oDownloadSamples, "select", 0)

Can somebody please elaborate on this part?

AFAIK and on what ive done till now, suppose the source was like <select name = "something">, then the codes,

//////////////////////////////

$ref = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE(basic reference object returned after creation), "select", 0)

For $i in $ref

  ConsoleWrit($i.name)

Next

///////////////////////////

This part will display "something" as we specifically referenced to select and then name descriptor within it.

But here select is just a tag without any inner descriptor or anything

So basically how does the Tagnamegetcollection function work??.....Please i am very new to autoit, any help would be really appreciated