Waiting for page to load in IE before form gets submitted

[mikehunt114]

I'm trying to submit a form (name = spk). The form has a button input element, but it has no name, so I've been trying to just use _IEFormSubmit(). Here is my code:

$oFrame = _IEFrameGetObjByName($oIE, "top")
    $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oFrame, "spk")
    $oSelect = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "h")
    _IEFormElementOptionselect($oSelect, $inputselection, 1, "byText"); just selecting a drop down menu with a user defined $inputselection
    _IEFormSubmit($oForm)

The problem is, this method is repeatedly submitting the form, this little bit of code is part of a large Do Until loop. I want to submit this form, let it load, then move on to my next task, all within the Do loop. I've used this very same code on different webpages that are quite similar, but the form submit button had a name, so using an _IEAction("click") worked perfectly. Any ideas?

[DaleHohm]

I'm trying to submit a form (name = spk). The form has a button input element, but it has no name, so I've been trying to just use _IEFormSubmit(). Here is my code:

$oFrame = _IEFrameGetObjByName($oIE, "top")
    $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oFrame, "spk")
    $oSelect = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "h")
    _IEFormElementOptionselect($oSelect, $inputselection, 1, "byText"); just selecting a drop down menu with a user defined $inputselection
    _IEFormSubmit($oForm)

The problem is, this method is repeatedly submitting the form, this little bit of code is part of a large Do Until loop. I want to submit this form, let it load, then move on to my next task, all within the Do loop. I've used this very same code on different webpages that are quite similar, but the form submit button had a name, so using an _IEAction("click") worked perfectly. Any ideas?

Take a look at _IEFormElementGetCollection and get a refernce by index instead of name.

Dale

[mikehunt114]

As in have _IEFormElementGetCollection run into an array and search for the element I am interested in?

[DaleHohm]

No, as in specify the optional zero-based index parameter to select an element by index instead of name.

Dale

Edit: typo

Edited October 31, 2006 by DaleHohm

[mikehunt114]

Ok. For a first time index user, to get the index would I write the collection to an array to get an array index, and the index for the _IEFormElementGetCollection() would be the same as the index for the array?

[DaleHohm]

Ok. For a first time index user, to get the index would I write the collection to an array to get an array index, and the index for the _IEFormElementGetCollection() would be the same as the index for the array?

The example in the helpfile for _IEFormElementGetCollection() shows you how to use the index parameter. If you pass an index of -1 (the default) you get a collection object (it is like an array, but a differnt construct entirely). If you pass an index of 0 or positive integer you get a reference to a single element (like you would with using _IEFormElementGetObjByName).

Dale

[mikehunt114]

I worked it out by trial and error, but I'll try looking in the helpfiles for examples on indexing.