Question About Ie.au3

[rbhkamal]

Hi

To use _IEFormGetObjByName( $oIE , $form ) in IE.au3 you need the name of form, what exactly Im supposed to look for in the source to find it.

Im not sure if this is a silly question. :">

thanks

[Valuater]

most times you will see

<FORM name="some name"

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[greenmachine]

Example form from this thread's source:

<form action="http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?" method="post" name="search">
            <input type="hidden" name="forums" value="2" />
            <input type="hidden" name="topic" value="24542" />
            <input type="hidden" name="act" value="Search" />
            <input type="hidden" name="CODE" value="searchtopic" />
            <input type="text" size="25" name="keywords" class="searchinput" value="Enter Keywords" onfocus="this.value = '';" /> 
            <input type="submit" value="Search Topic" class="button" />
        </form>

So you need to look for "form" in the source.

[Valuater]

Welcome to Autoit 1-2-3 has some great IE.au3 examples... 15 infact

plus the IE.au3 Builder can run the examples in the "builder form" also

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[rbhkamal]

Example form from this thread's source:

<form action="http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?" method="post" name="search">
            <input type="hidden" name="forums" value="2" />
            <input type="hidden" name="topic" value="24542" />
            <input type="hidden" name="act" value="Search" />
            <input type="hidden" name="CODE" value="searchtopic" />
            <input type="text" size="25" name="keywords" class="searchinput" value="Enter Keywords" onfocus="this.value = '';" /> 
            <input type="submit" value="Search Topic" class="button" />
        </form>

So you need to look for "form" in the source.

Is it possible that there is no form , becuase I searched for the word "form" and I didn't find it.

the only thing I found was "class=formlabel" and this probably has nothing to do with what I want.

Edit: thanks for the quick answer.

@Valuater: I already used your cool IE builder but I couldn’t use it with https for some reason.

Edited April 11, 2006 by rbhkamal

[greenmachine]

If you're using firefox, look at Page Info. The Forms tab will tell you if there are any forms.

If it doesn't find form anywhere, it likely doesn't have any forms.

[Valuater]

whats the url? ( web address)

http://?????

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Edited April 11, 2006 by Valuater

[rbhkamal]

whats the url?

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Its privet you cant access it from the internet.

Can I post the source instead?

Edit: its https

Edit: Here is the source:

Edit: Attachment removed

Edited July 3, 2006 by rbhkamal

[Valuater]

Sure... it just helps if i have the url so i can test the script as i am NOT as sharp as Dale with this stuff

... and green might be able to help also, he seems to have a keen ability with IE stuff

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Edited April 11, 2006 by Valuater

[rbhkamal]

OK, I looked in Firefox and there was nothing under the "Forms" tab.

I'm trying to click on "BG Manager" then " VPN" is there any way to do that without a form.

Edit: to find BG Manager and VPN in the source look for:

1- slideMenu.makeMenu('top','BG Manager')

2- slideMenu.makeMenu('sub','VPN', '/BGM/bgmOverview.do')

Edited April 11, 2006 by rbhkamal

[greenmachine]

Try _IEClickLinkByText().

[rbhkamal]

Try _IEClickLinkByText().

I tried _IEClickLinkByText( $oIE , "BG Manager" ) but it failed

Edit: I managed to skip this step by using _IENavigate() but what am I supposed to do

if using "_IENavigate()" , "IEClickLinkByText()" or "IEFormGetObjByName()" was not possible?

Edited April 11, 2006 by rbhkamal

[greenmachine]

Yeah.. I see why that wouldn't work. What's strange to me is that the BG Manager link appears to link to the current page (meaning it doesn't do anything).

These notes in the source give you an idea of what to do for the VPN:

NOTE: I get mail about this all the time so I will try and explain more:

If you where to make a regular link that would open a link in another

frame you would probably do like this:

<a href="mylink.html" target="myOtherFrameName">Link</a>

To do the same for a slideMenu link you do like this:

slideMenu.makeMenu('top','My link','mylink.html','myOtherFrameName')

------------------------------------------------------------

mySlideMenu.makeMenu('TYPE','TEXT','LINK','TARGET')

I really don't know about that menu thing, it's not something I've seen before.

Edit - for IENavigate, just use the link directly to the page (if you can figure out the right page).

Edited April 11, 2006 by greenmachine

[rbhkamal]

Thanks greenmachine and Valuater

[DaleHohm]

I tried _IEClickLinkByText( $oIE , "BG Manager" ) but it failed

Edit: I managed to skip this step by using _IENavigate() but what am I supposed to do

if using "_IENavigate()" , "IEClickLinkByText()" or "IEFormGetObjByName()" was not possible?

It's really just as simple as changing

_IEClickLinkByText( $oIE , "BG Manager")

to

_IEClickLinkByText( $oIE , "  BG Manager")

This is a dynamically generated Javascript. Because of this, a browser view source will not show you the actual HTML that is at play here. IE.au3 can show it to you though as _IEBodyReadHTML will show you the currently rendered HTML.

$source = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)
ConsoleWrite($source)

From this you see

<A class=clA0 onclick="if ((allowMenuClicks) &amp;&amp; (!slideMenu.going)) {slideMenu.switchMenu(20); if(document.getElementById) this.blur(); } else { return false; }return false" href="#">&nbsp;&nbsp;BG Manager</A>

the important part of this is

<A href="#">&nbsp;&nbsp;BG Manager</A>

. You were missing the two leading spaces.

Dale

[rbhkamal]

It's really just as simple as changing

_IEClickLinkByText( $oIE , "BG Manager")

to

_IEClickLinkByText( $oIE , "  BG Manager")

WOW! I didn't imagine its that simple, every thing is working now as expected.

Thanks Dale