One Tough Button To Click

[JBJB]

I have one button that I cannot figure out how to click. I had to resort to Send() for tabbing and pressing enter. Before I stamp the program as done, I thought I'd run it by you guys here.

The button source is: <INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Flush cache" onclick="flushCache();submitCache(this.form)" />

I've tried:

_IELinkClickByText($oIE, "Flush cache") = NoMatch

$oSubmit = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "Flush cache") = NoMatch

Also, _IELinkClickByIndex didn't work, it either fired other buttons or returned NoMatch.

Anyone have something in their bag of tricks for this?

Thanks!

[Squirrely1]

Did you include the required IE.au3 file? There are a lot of return error codes for that function _IELinkClickByText(). Set up your script to do the error checking, and then post your code enclosing it with the code tags or autoit tags, which are like html only you use backets "[" and "]" instead of "<" and ">".

[JBJB]

Yes, IE.au3 is included. This code is part of a larger script that runs thru and clicks all the links in a web app for the purpose of recaching all the pages. And the code I tried is what's in the original post . . . it's all coming back NoMatch.

Now I'm finding that I can't rely on the tabbing either as it depends on who's running the script and what toolbar they might have .... the number of tabs needed to land on the Flush cache button can be different.

So is there any way anyone has to click on a button like this: <INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Flush cache" onclick="flushCache();submitCache(this.form)" />

Thanks

[JBJB]

Well I finally figured it out. Here's the code.

CODE

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 0)

$oFormElem = _IEFormElementGetCollection($oForm)

$iNumElements = @extended

For $i = 0 to $iNumElements - 1

$oElement = _IEFormElementGetCollection($oForm, $i)

$iElementProperty = _IEPropertyGet($oElement, "outerhtml")

If StringInStr($iElementProperty, "onclick=flushCache()") Then

_IEAction($oElement, "click")

ExitLoop

EndIf

Next

In this case, "outerhtml" was the only property that returned anything useful.

[Squirrely1]

Great ! I'm not that experienced with objects. They used to be discouraging to me because they would always throw me errors. So I'm glad you were able to conquer this challenge.

Edited December 19, 2007 by Squirrely1