Wintask Macro Software Method vs Autoit Method

[jimihendrix857 0]

Well I made the mistake of writing a program within the not free software called wintask....Now I know better! Autoit does everything plus more AND its free!

Im sure autoit does what Im looking for but I cant seem to get an answer. 

Looking for the appropriate equivalent commands to the following Wintask commands:

• CaptureHTML - Captures the text of a specified HTML element
• ClickHTMLElement - Clicks the specified HTML element in the current Web page

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks

[junkew 290]

See examples iuiautomation

[orbs 172]

the IE UDF has what you need, and much more - and simpler then IUIAutomation. it's all in the AutoIt help.

[ViciousXUSMC 82]

Should be something like this:

Open Page: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_IECreate.htm

Click an Element: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_IEAction.htm

Get Text inside Body of HTML: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_IEBodyReadText.htm

 

Tested:

#include <IE.au3>


$ToRead = _IECreate("http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/163681-wintask-macro-software-method-vs-autoit-method/") ;Open Website
$Read = _IEBodyReadText($ToRead) ;Read Contents of the site
$lFile = FileOpen(@DesktopDir & "\WebRead.txt", 2) ;Open file for read/write and clears contents each time the script is run
FileWrite($lFile, $Read) ;Write text to file
FileClose($lFile) ;Closes file for read/write to make it avalible
_IEQuit($ToRead) ;Closes website

 

Edited August 21, 2014 by ViciousXUSMC

[junkew 290]

@orbs: Can you maybe give some direction in IUIAutomation thread why its more complex compared to IE.AU3 so I can work on simplifying (or simplespying)

Example 32 gives an simple overview on how to open three different browsers and open an url

Edited August 25, 2014 by junkew