How to give an embedded window focus?

[thetwistedpanda]

Ive been working on a small program to help automate a certain process for www.facebook.com known as poking. I wrote a previous program to help get the automation down and it basically consisted of opening a new IE window, tabbing over to the poke button, and sending enter. This wasnt very effective, however, as there were too many variables to account for, so I decided to embed an IE window into a GUI, and thus this problem arose.

Ill post the code below and try to bolden the problem areas, but to summarize; a button is stealing the focus away from my embedded IE window. I cant (or rather, dont want to) send a mouse click to gain the focus back. If any of you fine coders know of a way to select the poke button without having to send tab keys and an enter, I would be greatly appreciative, but I couldnt find a way to do it (without moving the mouse, which isnt really acceptable). The below code isn't finished, but in its current state it can function and poke (if there wasn't a focus problem).

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Thanks.

Edited May 18, 2007 by thetwistedpanda

[DaleHohm]

If I understand it properly, if you replaced your SEND commands of Tabs and Enter with an _IEAction - "click" on your Poke button, you wouldn't have to worry about focus...

Dale

[thetwistedpanda]

I tried using an _IEAction but I didn't know how to access the button's information. I'll post the html for it below...

;<form method="post" action="poke.php">

;<input type="hidden" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" value="7c456ca4a2125856b9e41c774aa5119d" />

;<input type="hidden" id="id" name="id" value="<removed>" />

;<input type="hidden" id="confirmed" name="confirmed" value="1" /><div class="formbuttons">

;<input type="submit" value="Poke" onclick="this.disabled=true; this.form.submit();" class="inputsubmit"/>

;<input type="button" class="inputbutton" onclick="java script:history.back();" id="cancel" name="cancel" value="Cancel" /></div>

I think the bold one is the one I need to click, but as I said, I didn't know how to get to it using autoit.

Edited May 18, 2007 by thetwistedpanda

[DaleHohm]

Since the form has no name, use _IEFormGetCollection to get a reference to the form and then _IEFormElementGetCollection to get a reference to the input field.

If this is the first form on the page it would be:

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 0) ; the first form by 0-based index
$oSubmit = _IEFormElementGetCollection($oForm, 3) ; the 4th form element
_IEAction($oSubmit, "click")

Dale

[thetwistedpanda]

Thanks Dale, I got it working now. Sure is a lot more effective then having to tab/enter over xD.