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I have not messed around much with the IE functions yet, so I have a few questions before I dig too deep into this project.

Do the IE functions still work when a system is locked? (I'll need a plan B if the answer is 'no' there)

- are there some I need to stay away from if this will be the case?

Has someone done a tutorial of the IE functions yet? I certainly see enough questions to perhaps warrant one, or maybe a FAQ.

-Spook

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Do the IE functions still work when a system is locked?

No.

:P

P.S. Had to rethink that after a correction from MHz in another topic. If you don't need the browser window to become ACTIVE, you might still get things to work while the console is locked... Hmm... :D

Edited by PsaltyDS
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Test script that PROVES I was wrong!

#include <IE.au3>

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_Quit")

$oIE = _IECreate("about:blank")
SplashTextOn("IE Test", "You may lock the console to test IE operations...", 500, 100, @DesktopWidth - 600, 100)
While 1
    _IENavigate($oIE, "http://www.google.com")
    ConsoleWrite("Debug:  Loaded Google: " & @HOUR & @MIN & @SEC & @LF)
    Sleep(1000)
    _IENavigate($oIE, "http://www.autoitscript.com")
    ConsoleWrite("Debug:  Loaded AutoIt: " & @HOUR & @MIN & @SEC & @LF)
    Sleep(1000)
WEnd

Func _Quit()
    SplashOff()
    _IEQuit($oIE)
    Exit
EndFunc

Live and learn... :D

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Woot!! Thanks for the help PsaltyDS (and MHz indirectly)

[u]Helpful tips:[/u]If you want better answers to your questions, take the time to reproduce your issue in a small "stand alone" example script whenever possible. Also, make sure you tell us 1) what you tried, 2) what you expected to happen, and 3) what happened instead.[u]Useful links:[/u]BrettF's update to LxP's "How to AutoIt" pdfValuater's Autoit 1-2-3 Download page for the latest versions of Autoit and SciTE[quote]<glyph> For example - if you came in here asking "how do I use a jackhammer" we might ask "why do you need to use a jackhammer"<glyph> If the answer to the latter question is "to knock my grandmother's head off to let out the evil spirits that gave her cancer", then maybe the problem is actually unrelated to jackhammers[/quote]

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I really can't think of any of the core functions that would not work when locked - everything uses the COM API.

Dale

Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curl

MSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object model

Automate input type=file (Related)

Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded  Better Better?

IE.au3 issues with Vista - Workarounds

SciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y

Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead?

Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble

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