[Solved] How to change the focus to another tabpage in Internet Explorer?

[dreivilo47]

I use the following code for opening 4 websites, each in another tab:

#include <IE.au3>
Local $oIE = _IECreate("www.autoitscript.com")
$oIE.Navigate2("www.autoitscript.com/forum/", 0x0800)
$oIE.Navigate2("www.google.com", 0x0800)
$oIE.Navigate2("www.cnn.com", 0x0800)

When the script ends, the last opened website (www.cnn.com) is visible.
What can I do to give the first tabpage (www.autoitscript.com) the focus back so this website is visible?

Edited April 14, 2016 by dreivilo47

[Juvigy]

Use _IEAttach

[mLipok]

@Juvigy You can attach , but @dreivilo47 asked about switch beetwen each tab to show it contents.

I think here is solution:

 

EDIT:
or here:

 

 

 

Edited April 13, 2016 by mLipok

[MichaelHB]

You could also send CTRL+1; CTRL+2; CTRL+3...

[junkew]

And after ctrl+<n> probably check document.url to see if you are on right tab

[mLipok]

do you mean document.url as IE document object ?

[dreivilo47]

Thanks everyone for your replies.

I have found the solution:
https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/43032-multiple-tabs-in-ie7/?do=findComment&comment=319967

Posted by DaleHohm in 2007.

Edited April 14, 2016 by dreivilo47

[junkew]

On 13-4-2016 at 6:46 PM, mLipok said:

do you mean document.url as IE document object ?

Yes

[mLipok]

This is not the way how it works.

When you switch to tab then $oIE object do not change reference automagically.

If you have 5 tabs then you should have $oIE1 $oIE2 $oIE3 $oIE4 $oIE5
Each one can have different URL.
But if you switch beetwen tabs this URL are not changing , as tab content do not change when user switch the tab.

but ......
https://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh773170(v=vs.85).aspx

#include <IE.au3>

_Example()
Func _Example()

    Local $oIE1 = _IECreate("www.autoitscript.com", 0, 1, 0)
    $oIE1.Navigate2("www.google.com", 0x0800)
    $oIE1.Navigate2("www.cnn.com", 0x0800)
    MsgBox(0, '', 'wait for page full load')

    Local $oIE2 = _IEAttach('google', 'url')
    Local $oIE3 = _IEAttach('cnn', 'url') ; http://edition.cnn.com/

    While Sleep(1000)
        ConsoleWrite(@CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite($oIE1.document.visibilityState & @CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite($oIE2.document.visibilityState & @CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite($oIE3.document.visibilityState & @CRLF)

        If $oIE1.document.visibilityState = 'visible' Then ExitLoop
    WEnd

EndFunc   ;==>_Example