_IEAction to copy page ?

[Who]

$IE = _IECreate('http://www.google.com', 0, 0, 1, -1)

I have created a new hidden IE and are there any way for me to copy the whole page to clipboard by using _IEAction ?

[DaleHohm]

Like the _IEAction's selectall and copy?

Dale

[Who]

Yes sir, I tried :

$IEText = _IEAction ( $IE, "copy")

But this won't work. And I tried :

$Select = _IEAction ( $IE, "selectall")
$IEText = _IEAction ( $Select, "copy")

And won't work too : IE.au3 Error from function _IEAction, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType

Can you help me please ?

Edited August 4, 2007 by Who

[PsaltyDS]

Yes sir, I tried :

$IEText = _IEAction ( $IE, "copy")

But this won't work. And I tried :

$Select = _IEAction ( $IE, "selectall")
$IEText = _IEAction ( $Select, "copy")

And won't work too : IE.au3 Error from function _IEAction, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType

Can you help me please ?

Hmm... I think you are confused about the return value. _IEAction() just returns 1 for success. The selection is not returned, just...selected. But "copy" doesn't appear to change the clipboard contents either. I think this should have worked (stayed with visible for testing):

#include <IE.au3>
ClipPut("...clipboard unchanged...")

$oIE = _IECreate('http://www.google.com', 0, 1, 1)
If _IEAction($oIE, "selectall") Then
    If _IEAction($oIE, "copy") Then
        ConsoleWrite("Debug: Success: " & @LF & ClipGet() & @LF)
    Else
        ConsoleWrite("Debug: Failed to copy." & @LF)
    EndIf
Else
    ConsoleWrite("Debug: Failed to select." & @LF)
EndIf

_IEQuit($oIE)

But the result is this:

>Running:(3.2.4.9):C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\autoit3.exe "C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\Scripts\Test_1.au3"   
Debug: Success: 
...clipboard unchanged...
+>13:35:44 AutoIT3.exe ended.rc:0

What happened...?

[DaleHohm]

Hmm... I think you are confused about the return value. _IEAction() just returns 1 for success. The selection is not returned, just...selected. But "copy" doesn't appear to change the clipboard contents either. I think this should have worked (stayed with visible for testing):

#include <IE.au3>
ClipPut("...clipboard unchanged...")

$oIE = _IECreate('http://www.google.com', 0, 1, 1)
If _IEAction($oIE, "selectall") Then
    If _IEAction($oIE, "copy") Then
        ConsoleWrite("Debug: Success: " & @LF & ClipGet() & @LF)
    Else
        ConsoleWrite("Debug: Failed to copy." & @LF)
    EndIf
Else
    ConsoleWrite("Debug: Failed to select." & @LF)
EndIf

_IEQuit($oIE)

But the result is this:

>Running:(3.2.4.9):C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\autoit3.exe "C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\Scripts\Test_1.au3"   
Debug: Success: 
...clipboard unchanged...
+>13:35:44 AutoIT3.exe ended.rc:0

What happened...?

Well, it actually worked, but the results were surprising to you. Nothing got places on the clipboard because when the google page displayed it had its focus set to a text input box. Change the URL to http://www.autoitscript.com and you'll see it give you what you expected.

Dale

[Who]

Well, it actually worked, but the results were surprising to you. Nothing got places on the clipboard because when the google page displayed it had its focus set to a text input box. Change the URL to http://www.autoitscript.com and you'll see it give you what you expected.

Dale

Oh I see, If the URL is http://www.autoitscript.com then it works well. But can you provide a solution for the http://google.com please ?

[PsaltyDS]

Ahhh, so!

I hadn't noticed that. If you open the google page, the focus is in the input box and hitting Ctrl-a gets you nothing. But if you click outside the input box to change the focus first, then Ctrl-a gets the whole page. So this works (with lots of error reporting):

#include <IE.au3>
ClipPut("...clipboard unchanged...")

$oIE = _IECreate('http://www.google.com', 0, 1, 1)
$oLink = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE, 1)
If IsObj($oLink) Then
    If _IEAction($oLink, "focus") Then
        If _IEAction($oIE, "selectall") Then
            If _IEAction($oIE, "copy") Then
                ConsoleWrite("Debug: Success: " & @LF & ClipGet() & @LF)
            Else
                ConsoleWrite("Debug: Failed to copy." & @LF)
            EndIf
        Else
            ConsoleWrite("Debug: Failed to select." & @LF)
        EndIf
    Else
        ConsoleWrite("Debug: Failed to get focus." & @LF)
    EndIf
Else
    ConsoleWrite("Debug: Failed to get link object." & @LF)
EndIf

_IEQuit($oIE)

[DaleHohm]

Yes, that will work for the Google page and most any other, but it assumes that there is a link to give focus to... a more generalized solution is simply to take focus away from the window first. There are other ways, but putting this before the selectAll will work:

$oWindow = $oIE.document.parentWindow

_IEAction($oWindow, "blur")

Dale

[Who]

Nah It works like a charm. Thank you very much for your help .

But now, I realize that maybe the IE.au3 is not support sites which have authentication ( prompt user to enter username and password ) or am I wrong ?

Edited August 5, 2007 by Who