Need help with frames and IE.au3

[JamieO 0]

Hi guys, this is my first post. I am new to autoit and am looking at getting help with filling out forms that are frames.

Most of my background in programming is in computational physics, so i have very little experience in application development and even less in scripting and web development.

Basically i am looking at how one would use the IE.au3 functions to login to a site like this that uses frames: http://www.thegreek.com/sports/home.asp.

I understand and have used the _IEFormGetCollection and _IEFormElementGetObjByName functions to create an auto-login program for another site, but i dont really get how to use the _IEFrameGetCollection, and _IEFrameGetObjByName. I dont know how to get the name of an object in a frame. Are there tools for such things?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edited October 8, 2007 by JamieO

[Josbe 1]

Hi guys, this is my first post. I am new to autoit and am looking at getting help with filling out forms that are frames.

Most of my background in programming is in computational physics, so i have very little experience in application development and even less in scripting and web development.

Basically i am looking at how one would use the IE.au3 functions to login to a site like this that uses frames: http://www.thegreek.com/sports/home.asp.

I understand and have used the _IEFormGetCollection and _IEFormElementGetObjByName functions to create an auto-login program for another site, but i dont really get how to use the _IEFrameGetCollection, and _IEFrameGetObjByName. I dont know how to get the name of an object in a frame. Are there tools for such things?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I think this tool maded by Valuater, could help you: IE builder.

[DaleHohm 61]

IE Builder would help. So would this modification to the example for _IEFrameGetCollection to get frame names:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IE_Example ("frameset")
$oFrames = _IEFrameGetCollection ($oIE)
$iNumFrames = @extended
For $i = 0 to ($iNumFrames - 1)
    $oFrame = _IEFrameGetCollection ($oIE, $i)
    MsgBox(0, "Frame Info", $oFrame.name)
Next

Also, strongly recomment the free DebugBar in my sig to get you going faster.

Dale

[JamieO 0]

Thanks guys, that DebugBar is an awesome tool, i just installed it and have started playing around with it. It will definetly help me figure this out.

[JamieO 0]

so i got it to work using the basic form of an autoit login i found on here somewhere, i had a few questions about the code though if anyone can anwser.

CODE

#include <IE.au3>

$TGID="guest"

$TGPass="guest"

$oTimeout=5000

TGlogin ($TGID, $TGPass, $oTimeout)

Func TGLogin ($TGID, $TGPass, $oTimeout)

Global $oIE, $oFrame, $oName, $opass, $otimer, $oForm

_IELoadWaitTimeout($oTimeOut) ;sets timeout in milliseconds (5000=5seconds) why is timeout necessary?

_IEErrorHandlerRegister() ; registers the default IE.au3 com error handler what does this mean?

$oIE = _IECreate("http://www.thegreek.com/sports/home.asp")

$oFrame = _IEFrameGetObjByName ($oIE, "main")

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oFrame, 0)

$oName = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "username")

$oPass = _IEFormelementgetobjbyname($oForm, "password")

_IEFormElementSetValue($oName, $TGID)

_IEFormElementSetValue($opass, $TGPass)

_IEFormSubmit ($oForm)

$Timer = TimerInit()

Do

Sleep(1)

Until _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "locationurl") = "http://www.thegreek.com/sports/home.asp" Or TimerDiff($Timer) > $oTimeOut ; what does this do???

_IEErrorHandlerDeRegister()

EndFunc

[DaleHohm 61]

What you have is likely more complicated taht it needs to be. This is all you should need:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate("http://www.thegreek.com/sports/home.asp") 
$oFrame = _IEFrameGetObjByName ($oIE, "main")
$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oFrame, 0)
$oName = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "username")
$oPass = _IEFormelementgetobjbyname($oForm, "password")
_IEFormElementSetValue($oName, $TGID)
_IEFormElementSetValue($opass, $TGPass)
_IEFormSubmit ($oForm)oÝ÷ Øò¢èZ½ëk¢æå{­Ø^ Ah®d®nh­±ç­êÞªä{az¥¥ø¥yú+¶­~éܶ*'­êeiÇ¢·­«­¢+Ù}%½ÉµMÕµ¥Ð ÀÌØí½½É´°À¤)}%1½]¥Ð ÀÌØí½Éµ¤

or if the frame disappears as a result of the submitted form, replace the last $oFrame with $oIE

Dale