Extracting a value from an IE Element - Error must be of type object

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

Hi 

I feel like I'm going mad as some of my old scripts aren't working so trying to return back to basics and fix them. 

I want to be able to pull data out of a box on IE for example and would like you to let me know if I'm doing it correctly..

 

So this is my html and it's just an text box (editable) 

Quote

<div class="row">
            <div class="col-md-8">
                <label class="label">Title</label>
                <input name="title" class="form-control valid" id="title" aria-invalid="false" aria-required="true" required="" type="text" maxlength="200" value="Mr Captain Birdseye v Cpt Blackbeard">
            </div>

 

So I just have this small snippet 

 

If WinActivate("Test app - Internet Explorer") Then
   WinSetState("Test app - Internet Explorer", "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)

   Sleep(4000)
Else


   EndIf
$oIE = _IEAttach("Test app - Internet Explorer")
Sleep(4000)
_IELoadWait($oIE)
$Test = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "title")
if @error then
   MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Error handling" , "Error pulling attempting $Test = _IEGetObjById($oIE, 'submitDiv') " , 4)
   Endif

MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "blah" , $Test.value, 4)
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "blah" , $Test.innerText, 4)
exit

And I get a following console output saying it must be of type Object

It also hits the @error check and produces the message box in the If statement

 

>"C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\SciTE\..\autoit3.exe" /ErrorStdOut "C:\Automation_Solcase\testdelete.au3"    
--> IE.au3 T3.0-2 Warning from function _IEAttach, $_IESTATUS_NoMatch
--> IE.au3 T3.0-2 Error from function _IELoadWait, $_IESTATUS_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 T3.0-2 Error from function _IEGetObjById, $_IESTATUS_InvalidDataType
"C:\Automation_Solcase\testdelete.au3" (50) : ==> Variable must be of type "Object".:
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "blah" , $Test.value, 4)
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "blah" , $Test^ ERROR
>Exit code: 1    Time: 13.21

 

Edited January 10, 2020 by CaptainBeardsEyesBeard

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@CaptainBeardsEyesBeard
The variable $oIE is not an object, and so, every other function which is trying to access an object, fails, and so, you have those errors.
Check the function _IEAttach(), and check if ir correctly returns an object with IsObj() function

[Nine]

Even more checking at the very beginning :

Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle ("Test app - Internet Explorer")
if not $hWnd then Exit MsgBox (0,"","Unable to find window")
Local $oIE = _IEAttach ($hWnd, "hwnd")
if not isObj ($oIE) then Exit MsgBox (0,"","Not an object")

 

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

On 1/10/2020 at 10:15 AM, FrancescoDiMuro said:

@CaptainBeardsEyesBeard
The variable $oIE is not an object, and so, every other function which is trying to access an object, fails, and so, you have those errors.
Check the function _IEAttach(), and check if ir correctly returns an object with IsObj() function

Oh man that's what I was missing! 

I had thought if you used IECREATE you wouldn't need IEATTACH 

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@CaptainBeardsEyesBeard
Glad I could help