Help with COM error 80020009

[bbehnke]

Hello everyone,

I am writing a program that opens Internet Explorer then does manipulations from there. I keep getting a COM error with these details. The error is occurring on a compiled .exe version of the script, but not in the Scite debugging when you press "Go".

err.description is:

err.windescription:

err.number is: 80020009

err.lastdllerror is: 0

err.scriptline is: -1

err.source is:

err.helpfile is:

err.helpcontext is: 0

Here is the error catch I am using and the problematic code.

COM error catch:

#include <Excel.au3>
#include <File.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <IE.au3> 
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <DateTimeConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <Timers.au3>
$oMyError = ObjEvent("AutoIt.Error","MyErrFunc")    ; Initialize a COM error handler
; This is my custom defined error handler
Func MyErrFunc()
  Msgbox(0,"AutoItCOM Test","We intercepted a COM Error !"    & @CRLF  & @CRLF & _
             "err.description is: " & @TAB & $oMyError.description  & @CRLF & _
             "err.windescription:"   & @TAB & $oMyError.windescription & @CRLF & _
             "err.number is: "       & @TAB & hex($oMyError.number,8)  & @CRLF & _
             "err.lastdllerror is: "   & @TAB & $oMyError.lastdllerror   & @CRLF & _
             "err.scriptline is: "   & @TAB & $oMyError.scriptline   & @CRLF & _
             "err.source is: "       & @TAB & $oMyError.source       & @CRLF & _
             "err.helpfile is: "       & @TAB & $oMyError.helpfile     & @CRLF & _
             "err.helpcontext is: " & @TAB & $oMyError.helpcontext _
            )
Endfunc

Where error is occurring (I did some troubleshooting and narrowed it down to these three lines):

;opening and manipulating IE
Global $oIE = _IECreate("https://login.advancedmd.com/")
WinWaitActive("AdvancedMD – Client Login - Windows Internet Explorer")
WinSetState("AdvancedMD – Client Login - Windows Internet Explorer", " ", @SW_MAXIMIZE)

Basically when the script runs it opens Internet explorer to the correct site, it then throws the COM error message box. Then if I click "Okay" on the COM error message box it will then proceed to maximize the window and perform the rest of the script correctly. I tried it without the COM error catch (maybe it was a false positive situation) and I still received an "autoit object" error from windows. I also threw and "Exit" prior to IE opening and did not receive an error prior to exiting. So I am pretty sure this is the culprit.

Any help would be great! I am at the point where I would like to put this .exe on some other computers and this is hindering that step.

Thank you everyone!

Brad

[coffeeturtle]

Possibly you are using Remote Desktop to the target machine?

That is one scenario where I've seen that error code.

[Danp2]

Seems like I've seen something similar posted on the forum previously. I'm wondering if it has to do navigating to a secure site during the IE object creation.

[JohnOne]

If so...

Global $oIE = _IECreate("about:blank")

_IENavigate(...)

[Danp2]

That's what I was thinking as well. Then I took a look at the innards of _IECreate and found that this is exactly what is already occurring.