IE Automation - Clicking a Special Type of Image

[greenmachine]

All these posts about making a DarkThrone auto-recruiter made me want to try my hand at the task. So I made my own DarkThrone Recruiter. It works beautifully - except for one step. There is an image link on the login page that defies all automation attempts I can think of. The following is a load of information related to said image.

That's what it looks like. Simple enough.

Form info relating to the image button (single form):

Form Name: "" (blank)

Form Method: post

Form Action: http://www.darkthrone.com/login.dt

When that form is selected, this is the element info for the 3 elements:

Label: "" (blank), Field Name: submit, Type: hidden, Current Value: TRUE

Label: "" (blank), Field Name: email, Type: text, Current Value: [email address]

Label: "" (blank), Field Name: password, Type: password, Current Value: [password in *]

Unfortunately, _IEFormSubmit does not work on this form (tried many times already).

Under links (referring to the submit image link):

Name: Submit Query

Address: http://www.darkthrone.com/login.dt

Type: Form Submission

Target: "" (blank)

Access Key: "" (blank)

_IEClickLinkByText and _IEClickLinkByIndex don't work either, because evidently that isn't considered as a standard link in the document.

Under media (referring to the image itself):

Address: http://www.darkthrone.com/templates/notlog...tons/submit.gif

Type: Input

Alternate Text: Not Specified (none)

Count: 1

_IEClickImg doesn't work because it's not a true image - at least that's what it seems.

In the source:

<form action="/login.dt" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="submit" value="TRUE">
    <div class="box_border" style="width: 250px">
    <table width="100%">
      <tr>
        <td colspan="2" class="box_header">Login</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="box_content" width="32%">Email</td>
        <td class="box_content" width="68%"><input type="text" name="email" style="width: 100%"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="box_content" width="32%">Password</td>
        <td class="box_content" width="68%"><input type="password" name="password" style="width: 100%"></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    </div>
    <input type="image" src="templates/notloggedin/images/buttons/submit.gif" class="submitImg">
    </form>

If anyone knows how I can click this image or submit this form without using mouseclicks (as I do currently) or ControlSend/Click (since there's no control ID), please let me know.

[Valuater]

i think this will do the trick

$oButton = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($o_SearchForm, "submit")
$oButton.click

8)

[greenmachine]

Didn't appear to work.

Click returned 0, meaning no click.

Edited February 20, 2006 by greenmachine

[Valuater]

you got this first right???

$o_SearchForm

like

$o_SearchForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($o_IE, "LOGIN")

; where"LOGIN" is the NAME of the form...then

$oButton = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($o_SearchForm, "submit")

$oButton.click

[greenmachine]

Feel free to try it yourself. There is no name to the form, I got it by index. There was no point in getting an object by name since I knew the index. Got all the objects I need, tried the click. Nothing. Feel free to prove me wrong though.

[DaleHohm]

Feel free to try it yourself. There is no name to the form, I got it by index. There was no point in getting an object by name since I knew the index. Got all the objects I need, tried the click. Nothing. Feel free to prove me wrong though.

I think you'll find the background you need here:

Internet Explorer Automation UDF library - clicking Image Problem

Dale

[greenmachine]

Thanks a ton Dale, I was hoping you'd come help.

[greenmachine]

Double-posting only so people are aware of the new post, because it is almost important (contains useful code).

I had to edit it quite a bit to work to what I needed to do. Here's the finished product:

$SubmitButtonSource = "templates/notloggedin/images/buttons/submit.gif"
$oInputs = _IETagNameGetCollection (_IEDocumentGetObj ($IEObject), "input")
For $oInput In $oInputs
    If $oInput.src <> "" And StringInStr ($oInput.src, $SubmitButtonSource, 0) Then
        $oInput.click
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
Next

[Valuater]

nice job green.... ( and thanks for trying Valuater )

I am going to add that one to my IE.au3 Demos inside

Welcome to AutoIt 1-2-3

thx

8)

[greenmachine]

Good point - thanks for your attempt Valuater (too bad the easy way didn't work in the first place).

And sorry for the attitude I had after your reply. I respect you trying to help, it's just that I was annoyed that everything I had tried wasn't working.

Edited February 20, 2006 by greenmachine

[FreeFry]

You could make use of javascript to do this...

send this into the adressbar:

java script:void(document.forms[0].submit())

change the 0 to whatever form it is(depending how many forms there are in the page)

Edit:

Um.. there should be no space between java and script... dunno why it puts a space there...

Edited February 20, 2006 by FreeFry

[greenmachine]

Nice try, but that doesn't work. According to the error received, "the object does not support this property or method." Also, this is the equivalent of doing _IEFormSubmit, which I tried several times, and which failed every time. The code I posted above does work, and that's all I need.

[FreeFry]

Oh, I didnt try it I just know it works on must other pages, where there is an form which submits data.

I think it doesnt work because of that its using css to submit the data in some way.

I'm not into html and such, i just know a little basic javascript.

Anyways, good you found something that workt =)

[DaleHohm]

Oh, I didnt try it I just know it works on must other pages, where there is an form which submits data.

I think it doesnt work because of that its using css to submit the data in some way.

I'm not into html and such, i just know a little basic javascript.

Anyways, good you found something that workt =)

Not CSS, but typically Javascript on the button used to submit -- it is very common these days instead of using the standard form submit action.

Dale

[Andrew Sparkes]

I hope no one minds me raising this topic from the dead, but I put together greenmachines code and made a function... I don't know if this is in the new IE.au3, but if anyone wants it, it works just like _IEClickImg() ...

Func _IEFormClickImg($o_object, $s_linkText, $s_mode = "src", $i_index = 0, $f_wait = 1)
    $doc = _IEDocumentGetObj ($o_object)
    $oInputs = _IETagNameGetCollection (_IEDocumentGetObj ($o_object), "input")
    $found = 0
    $s_mode = StringLower($s_mode)
    For $oInput In $oInputs  
        Select
            Case $s_mode = "name"
                $linkText = $oInput.name
            Case $s_mode = "src"
                $linkText = $oInput.src
            Case Else
               ;; Invalid mode
                SetError(99)
                Return 0
        EndSelect
        If StringInStr($linkText, $s_linkText) Then
            if ($found = $i_index) Then
                $result = $oInput.click
                Sleep(500); Allow readystate to change before proceeding
                If ($f_wait = 1) Then _IELoadWait($o_object)
                SetError(0)
                Return 1
            EndIf
            $found = $found + 1
        EndIf
    Next
    SetError(1)
    Return 0
EndFunc