$_IEStatus_NoMatch error code 7

[Laszlo55]

Hi Everybody!

I'm new in AutoIt. After some introductory simple tests I tried a "real" problem. Unfortunately, I ran in problems from the first. When I try to scrap some data from the site http://www.burcoinc.com/products/online_catalog/ selecting the control box Year, Make or Model is not working! The code line with problems are the last two::

#include<IE.au3>

Global $oIE=_IECreate("http://www.burcoinc.com/products/online_catalog/")

Local $oForm = _IEGetObjByID($oIE, "ReportViewer1_ctl00_ctl03_ddValue")

_IEFormElementOptionselect($oForm, 8, 1, "byIndex")

the error lines are:

IE.au3 V2.4-0 Warning from function _IEGetObjById, $_IEStatus_NoMatch (ReportViewer1_ctl00_ctl03_ddValue)

--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementOptionselect, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType

The control name is from the page's source code, (checked both from IE and Chrome). Also tried with AU3Info but in this page it selects only the frame around the controls, not the controls. What is happening?

I can't find a solution, could anybody help me? Thank you in advance.

Laszlo

[Danp2]

Looks like there are frames being used on this site, which is likely what is the first issue you will need to tackle.

[Laszlo55]

Thank you. Meantime I found some similar ideas in some older posts. It seems it is a general problem. I tried to correct my code, but I didn't manage. Could you be more specific?

[water]

To access form elements by the IE UDF I think you need to use the _IEForm* functions.

[DaleHohm]

You can get a reference to a form using _IEGetObjById as the poster is doing.

This is a common coding mistake caused by not really understanding what the function calls are doing.

IE.au3 V2.4-0 Warning from function _IEGetObjById, _IEStatus_NoMatch (ReportViewer1_ctl00_ctl03_ddValue)

There is a lot of detail in there. Read it and understand it.

There is NOMATCH for the ID you passed in the document.

Prove it to yourself with:

ConsoleWrite(_IEDocReadHTML($oIE))

And as previously mentioned, you may well see some frames in that source.

Dale

[Laszlo55]

Thank you guys! It seems I have to learn more, until I could use autoit efficiently. My problem is that in the page's whole source code is only ONE frame name. Of course if I use it, I get the usual NOMATCH error. Any ideas?