How to do _IEAttach?

[Sybok]

Hi, a newbie here.

I have a running browser, and (I think) I want to attach to the browser to determine when a page completes. The idea is that I do some stuff to kick off a report that takes awhile (perhaps 30 minutes). When the report is done, the browser completes loading the return page; for the 30 minutes, it has the hourglass and is waiting data from the server.

I wanted to do something like

$IEObj = _IEAttach ("This is the Title on my Browser")

_IELoadWait ($IEObj)

However, the IEAttach always returns the NoMatch error.

I tried specifying the second parameter, _IEAttach ("This is the Title on my Browser","Title") and _IEAttach ("This is the Title on my Browser", "title"), as well as trying variations on the title string (does it need the entire title, or can I just specify the first part of the title?).

Any clues to how I should do this?

Also, would I expect this to work with Firefox? I would prefer to use Firefox, although I can use IE if I have to.

Thanks for any help,

brew

[Thatsgreat2345]

Hi, a newbie here.

I have a running browser, and (I think) I want to attach to the browser to determine when a page completes. The idea is that I do some stuff to kick off a report that takes awhile (perhaps 30 minutes). When the report is done, the browser completes loading the return page; for the 30 minutes, it has the hourglass and is waiting data from the server.

I wanted to do something like

$IEObj = _IEAttach ("This is the Title on my Browser")

_IELoadWait ($IEObj)

However, the IEAttach always returns the NoMatch error.

I tried specifying the second parameter, _IEAttach ("This is the Title on my Browser","Title") and _IEAttach ("This is the Title on my Browser", "title"), as well as trying variations on the title string (does it need the entire title, or can I just specify the first part of the title?).

Any clues to how I should do this?

Also, would I expect this to work with Firefox? I would prefer to use Firefox, although I can use IE if I have to.

Thanks for any help,

brew

Use autoit window info tool to get the exact title on the website. No it will NOT work in firefox hence the command name IE. Firefox doesn't support DOM object commands so you can't use firefox.

[DaleHohm]

Please see the docs in the helpfile for the various modes for _IEAttach... in particular:

Title = (Default) sub-string of main document title

WindowTitle = sub-string of full window title (instead of document title)

The document title is the string inside the HTML <TITLE> tag, it is not the full window title - use WindowTitle for that. Also not that both use a sub-string, which means any portion of the string will match.

ThatsGreat is right that you cannot use it with FireFox, but to be precise, FireFox does support the DOM (Document Object Model) -- this is what javascript on the HTML page can access, but it does not support COM which is what allows an external interface like AutoIt to automate the browser using the DOM.

Dale

Edited January 17, 2008 by DaleHohm

[Thatsgreat2345]

Please see the docs in the helpfile for the various modes for _IEAttach... in particular:

Title = (Default) sub-string of main document title

WindowTitle = sub-string of full window title (instead of document title)

The document title is the string inside the HTML <TITLE> tag, it is not the full window title - use WindowTitle for that. Also not that both use a sub-string, which means any portion of the string will match.

ThatsGreat is right that you cannot use it with FireFox, but to be precise, FireFox does support the DOM (Document Object Model) -- this is what javascript on the HTML page can access, but it does not support COM which is what allows an external interface like AutoIt to automate the browser using the DOM.

Dale

My bad thanks for the clarification. Always get DOM and COM mixed up xD.