Perl Error: Could not start AutoItX3 Control through OLE

[AndreyM]

Hello,

I am trying to use Win32::IEAutomation to do some IE automation.

Here is the code example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use Win32::IEAutomation;

my $ie = Win32::IEAutomation->new( visible => 1, maximize => 1);
$ie->gotoURL('http://www.google.com');

 

When I run this code I get the following error: Could not start AutoItX3 Control through OLE and a blank IE window.

I looked all over the web and was not able to find an answer. Maybe someone here could assist.

 

When I try to run the code below it works fine.

use Win32::OLE;

my $ie = Win32::OLE->new( 'InternetExplorer.Application' )
        or die "error starting IE";
$ie->{visible} = 1;
$ie->navigate( 'http://google.com/' );

 

Thank you,

-Andrey

 

[LarsJ]

Your code example works for me (Win 7, IE 9, ActiveState Perl 5.8).

If you take a look at WinClicker.pm in IEAutomation folder of your Perl installation, you'll see that the command that is executed immediately before the line that fails, is registration of the DLL. You could try to do that registration manually in a CMD-window:

 

regsvr32 <full path to AutoItX3.dll>

If the command fails this is the problem.

If the command runs without errors you could try to install AutoIt on your PC. This should not take more than 5 minutes. I have AutoIt on my PC.

If this still doesn't help you have to spend some time to google this:

 

perl IEAutomation AutoItX3 Control

Regards Lars.