Multiple IE tab support?

[JaysCogs]

Hey, so I'm a bit new to autoit, but I'm running into a problem with getting html objects off of IE as soon as I have a second tab open. 

For example: Say I open a new IE window to Youtube.com, get the search bar object from the html, and plug something in. Then I send "ctrl+T" to the window, making a new tab which opens google.com, and want to get the search bar and put in "dogs". As soon as the code tries to execute, it cannot find the google search bar.

I have tried using multiple IE windows, and the same code works fine, but for our purposes we need them to all be in one window with multiple tabs. Does anyone have a potential solution or answer? Is Autoit going to get Tab support in the future? I feel like this is kind of something that should be native.

[mLipok]

try this concept:

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#include <IE.au3>

;~ BrowserNavConstants Enumeration
;~ https://msdn.microsoft.com/pl-pl/library/dd565688(v=vs.85).aspx
Global Const $IE_NAVOPENINNEWWINDOW = 1
Global Const $IE_NAVNOHISTORY = 2
Global Const $IE_NAVNOREADFROMCACHE = 4
Global Const $IE_NAVNOWRITETOCACHE = 8
Global Const $IE_NAVALLOWAUTOSEARCH = 16
Global Const $IE_NAVBROWSERBAR = 32
Global Const $IE_NAVHYPERLINK = 64
Global Const $IE_NAVENFORCERESTRICTED = 128
Global Const $IE_NAVNEWWINDOWSMANAGED = 256
Global Const $IE_NAVUNTRUSTEDFORDOWNLOAD = 512
Global Const $IE_NAVTRUSTEDFORACTIVEX = 1024
Global Const $IE_NAVOPENINNEWTAB = 2048
Global Const $IE_NAVOPENINBACKGROUNDTAB = 4096
Global Const $IE_NAVKEEPWORDWHEELTEXT = 8192
Global Const $IE_NAVVIRTUALTAB = 16384
Global Const $IE_NAVBLOCKREDIRECTSXDOMAIN = 32768
Global Const $IE_NAVOPENNEWFOREGROUNDTAB = 65536


_Example()
Func _Example()

    ; open some website
    Local $oIE1_MSDN = _IECreate('https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752094(v=vs.85).aspx')
    ; wait for complete
    _IELoadWait($oIE1_MSDN)

    ; declare new URL variable
    Local $sURL2_Google = 'www.google.com'

    ; open new Tab in background and navigate to new URL
    $oIE1_MSDN.navigate2($sURL2_Google, $IE_NAVOPENINBACKGROUNDTAB)

    ; wait for second URL is completly loaded
    ; how you see you are using first object as this was called from first object
    _IELoadWait($oIE1_MSDN)

    ; attach to new object
    Local $oIE2_Google = _IEAttach($sURL2_Google, 'url')

    ; now you can automate both IE object
    ; ........

EndFunc    ;==>_Example

 

Edited February 17, 2016 by mLipok
example changed

[JaysCogs]

Interesting, could you explain the basic logic behind this? I'm afraid I don't quite understand how it works.

[mLipok]

Read here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752094(v=vs.85).aspx

And check again edited example in post  #2.

[JaysCogs]

Ahh, okay! that does help a lot, but I'm still having trouble getting individual html elements. I'm no longer getting the errors I was, but it's not getting or using the html elements at all.

 

EDIT:

Belay that, I figured out what the problem is. Thank you for your help!!

Edited February 17, 2016 by JaysCogs

[mLipok]

51 minutes ago, JaysCogs said:

Belay that, I figured out what the problem is.

So share your experience here.

 

[JaysCogs]

The _IEWait command wasn't actually waiting for the window to finish loading, so the _IEAttach command wasn't sending the proper reference. Then I tried it a couple more times, but forgot to close the original window I had open, so I had two windows open, one in the foreground, one in the back. _IEAttach was sending a reference to the background window before the foreground properly loaded, making my code work where I couldn't see.

[mLipok]

2 minutes ago, JaysCogs said:

The _IEWait command wasn't actually waiting for the window to finish loading,

So read this:

 

maybe this be helpfull for you.

 

[JaysCogs]

Thank you, I will, but I did fix the issue and create a work around by the use of sleep statements.

[mLipok]

Sleep() works only in specyfic cases, on specyfic systems.

If you change IE version , Windows Version, Procesor, RAM , Internet speed , then Sleep() can not handle this all changes.