Script breaking behavior when using IE10 on Win7

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Script breaking behavior when using IE10 on Win7

When using _IExxx functions with IE10 on Win7, there are incompatibility issues.

Here a sample with _IEGetObjByName() and _IEGetObjById()

#include <ie.au3>
_IE_VersionInfo()
$oIE=_iecreate("Google.com")
consolewrite(@crlf&_IEPropertyGet($oIE,"appversion"))
$Object=_IEGetObjByName($oIE,"gbqfq")
ConsoleWrite(@crlf&" Error on ByName: "& @error&@crlf)
$Object=_IEGetObjById($oIE,"gbqfq")
ConsoleWrite(@crlf&" Error on   ById: "  & @error&@crlf)
_IEQuit($oIE)

Console output with IE9

>"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.exe" /run /prod /ErrorStdOut /in "C:\Users\Hubertus\Desktop\try##.au3" /autoit3dir "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3" /UserParams    
+>22:33:38 Starting AutoIt3Wrapper v.2.0.3.0    Environment(Language:0407  Keyboard:00000407  OS:WIN_7/Service Pack 1  CPU:X64 OS:X64)
>Running AU3Check (1.54.19.0)  from:C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3
+>22:33:39 AU3Check ended.rc:0
>Running:(3.3.6.1):C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\autoit3_x64.exe "C:\Users\Hubertus\Desktop\try##.au3"    
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Information from function _IE_VersionInfo, version V2.4-0 (Release date: 20071231)

5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/5.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)
 Error on ByName: 0

 Error on   ById: 0
+>22:33:52 AutoIT3.exe ended.rc:0
>Exit code: 0    Time: 15.536

Console output with IE10

>"G:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.exe" /run /prod /ErrorStdOut /in "O:\Data\AutoIt\try##.au3" /UserParams    
+>22:41:00 Starting AutoIt3Wrapper v.2.1.0.33    Environment(Language:0407  Keyboard:00000407  OS:WIN_7/Service Pack 1  CPU:X64 OS:X64)
>Running AU3Check (1.54.22.0)  from:G:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3
+>22:41:00 AU3Check ended.rc:0
>Running:(3.3.8.1):G:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\autoit3.exe "O:\Data\AutoIt\try##.au3"    
--> Press Ctrl+Alt+F5 to Restart or Ctrl+Break to Stop
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Information from function _IE_VersionInfo, version V2.4-0 (Release date: 20071231)

5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Warning from function _IEGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_NoMatch (Name: gbqfq, Index: 0)

 Error on ByName: 7

 Error on   ById: 0
+>22:41:02 AutoIT3.exe ended.rc:0
>Exit code: 0    Time: 3.223

HTML code

<input name="q" class="gbqfif" id="gbqfq" style='background: ... skipped some lines ...>

As you can see, in IE10 _IEGetObjByName() returns @error=7.

In IE9 it returns @error=0. The Id was taken instead.

So some of my scripts refused to work. Login button was not pressed since I used ByName instead of ById.

I think, there are more incompatibilities between IE9 and IE10.

[jdelaney]

Does IE10 have xpath searching yet? They are way behind the times. (sorry to not specifically address your issue)

Edited March 11, 2013 by jdelaney

[DaleHohm]

@Exit, I never really understood why it was the case, but in all prior versions of IE, IDs shared the same namespace with Names. They finally decided to tighten that up in IE10. Personally, I never relied on this behavior and was always careful to use _IEGetObjByName for Names and _IEGetObjByID for IDs. You'll need to do the same.

Dale

@jdelaney - unfortunately no, still no xpath

Edited March 12, 2013 by DaleHohm

[JohnOne]

I never knew it behaved like that in the past, glad I never now really