checking checkbox on website

[phew]

heeloowww,

i'm trying to check the AGB checkbox on http://www.meta-sms.de/

honestly i didnt get this _IE...Obj.. functions really..

here is my code:

#include <IE.au3>

$url = "http://www.meta-sms.de/"
$oIE = _IECreate ($url, 1)

$checkbox = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "ID_CheckAGB")
$check = _IEFormElementCheckBoxSelect($checkbox, "ID_CheckAGB", "", 1, "byIndex", 0)
MsgBox(0, "", $check)

it always returns @error = 3 (($_IEStatus_InvalidDataType) = Invalid Data Type)

what am i doing wrong? someone can please give me a working example?

[evilertoaster]

You had it mostly correct. You might even be able to actually use _IEFormElementCheckBoxSelect, but in most cases a generic 'click' will do.

#include <IE.au3>

$url = "http://www.meta-sms.de/"
$oIE = _IECreate ($url, 1)

$checkbox = _IEGetObjByName ($oIE, "ID_CheckAGB")
$check=_IEAction($checkbox,"click")
MsgBox(0, "", $check)

[DaleHohm]

heeloowww,

i'm trying to check the AGB checkbox on http://www.meta-sms.de/

honestly i didnt get this _IE...Obj.. functions really..

here is my code:

#include <IE.au3>

$url = "http://www.meta-sms.de/"
$oIE = _IECreate ($url, 1)

$checkbox = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "ID_CheckAGB")
$check = _IEFormElementCheckBoxSelect($checkbox, "ID_CheckAGB", "", 1, "byIndex", 0)
MsgBox(0, "", $check)

it always returns @error = 3 (($_IEStatus_InvalidDataType) = Invalid Data Type)

what am i doing wrong? someone can please give me a working example?

_IEFormElementCheckBoxSelect needs you to pass a Form element to it - $checkbox is an <INPUT> form element.

#include <IE.au3>

$url = "http://www.meta-sms.de/"
$oIE = _IECreate ($url, 1)

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 0)
$check = _IEFormElementCheckBoxSelect($oForm, 0, "ID_CheckAGB", 1, "byIndex", 0)
MsgBox(0, "", $check)

Also, when using byIndex, the second parameter is the checkbox index (0 in this case)

Dale

p.s. @eviltoaster's method works for this specific case, but you need to make changes if there is more than one checkbox and if you are not certain if it is check already there is additional code needed to see or you will uncheck it with that code...

[phew]

it's still not working for me, msgbox shows up with "0" what means @error

SCITE Reply:
--> IE.au3 Warning from function _IEAttach, $_IEStatus_NoMatch
--> IE.au3 Warning from function _IEFormElementCheckboxSelect, $_IEStatus_NoMatch

but thx for your reply

[DaleHohm]

Are you certain? The code I posted work fine for me over and over again.

Dale

p.s. the _IEAttach NoMatch is expected unless you already have the site up

Edited November 5, 2007 by DaleHohm

[phew]

when i execute this .au3 script as you have posted it the msgbox always shows "0"

[Valuater]

Mine works, shows a "1"

8)

[phew]

bah, i exactly use

#include <IE.au3>

$url = "http://www.meta-sms.de/"
$oIE = _IECreate ($url, 1)

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 0)
$check = _IEFormElementCheckBoxSelect($oForm, 0, "ID_CheckAGB", 1, "byIndex", 0)
MsgBox(0, "", $check)

and my msgbox shows "0"

[phew]

haha that is so strange, now after pc reboot it works, also when i didn't change anything to the code o_O

thanks for your help guys

EDIT:

wtf, slowly i'm going crazy. now it worked for a few times and the msgbox showed me "1" and the box was checked, and without changing anything to the code it stopped working again - msgbox shows a 0. someone knows what i'm doing wrong?

Edited November 6, 2007 by phew

[DaleHohm]

Suggest you remove the try_attach from the _IECreate ( the 1 parameter). It is possible that after interacting with the page, the URL stays the same, but the elements on the page are changed with dynamic HTML that would cause trouble with the assumptions in the script. E.g. since the form has no name attribute you are grabbing it based on being the first form on the page, index 0 -- if a new form dynamically gets inserted at the top of the page, the form you want is no longer form 0.

Dale

[phew]

thanks for your help but that didn't work either - but doesn't matter, somehow it works when i compiled the *.au3, and i need it as *.exe anyways

greetings,

phew