Auto Click on IE Alert Window

[KlemsonGuy]

I'm writing a script that will go through an Internet Explorer web page, and when you click on a particular button, a message alert box comes up. Is there a way to make it automatically click OK without using the MouseClick command? I was hoping for some way to intergrate the IE.au3 UDF's into this. Does anyone know of a way?

[Valuater]

try...

Send("{ENTER}")

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[KlemsonGuy]

Ha... would that it were that easy. I may be new to this, but I'm not that new. Yeah, I've tried that, and I also tried putting a delay before it (just in case I was sending the enter command before the message actually popped up), and it still didn't work. Any other advice?

try...

Send("{ENTER}")

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Edited February 24, 2006 by KlemsonGuy

[Valuater]

IE.au3 to the rescue!!!

see Dale Hohm's IE.au3 Library ( its really good )

then get my IE.au3 Builder ( in my sig )

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Edited February 24, 2006 by Valuater

[KlemsonGuy]

Well, that's just it, I have both, and don't get me wrong, they work great, but I just can't figure out how to interface with a javascript alert. Do you know of a way using IE.au3?

[Fur]

Two methods I've used:

#1 You CAN use Send() to close these, the trick is you have to send the window a TAB first.

If WinExists("Microsoft Internet Explorer", "") Then
  WinActivate("Microsoft Internet Explorer", "")
  Send("{TAB}{ENTER}")
Endif

#2 Sometimes (depending on the webpage) you can just bypass the javascript code popping it up in the first place. Don't forget you can actually modify the javascript of a webpage on the fly with this! Feel the power!!

Say there is some special code in the onclick event for an image link, part of the code is what pops up the alert box. You can just write your own code and substitute it!! A lot of sites it is very easy to do malicious things because they trust no one is going to monkey with their javascript. Not sure how much longer that will last...

; replace their javascript code with my own! tricky!
  $img.parentNode.setAttribute("onclick", "return 1")

[DaleHohm]

I agree with everything stated so far. I will add however that a Javascript alert may actually cause your AutoIt script to stall until the alert is processed. In this case you actually need to use the SEND command to generate a keystroke that performs the action htat results in the alert box appearing... your script can then continue to run and you are free to process the alert with other AutoIt code.

There is an example of this in reply 3 (the examples reply) of the IE.au3 thread.

Dale