IE.au3 failed to set value of a form object, help me!

[chenxu]

The web page:

http://bbs.zhuodou.com/posttopic.aspx?forumid=24

sorry, it's in Chinese...

the page is to post a new topic of a forum, and I am trying to send a topic automaticly, but I failed to send text to the textarea of the page with the following code:

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#include <IE.au3>

setLayout()
While 1
    Sleep(2000)
WEnd

Func setLayout()
    $winHeigh = 480
    $winWidth = 640
    $browserHeigh = $winHeigh
    $browserWidth = $winWidth
    $btnHeigh = 25
    $btnWidth = 80
    
    _IEErrorHandlerRegister ()
    $oIE = _IECreateEmbedded ()
    $guiHandle = GUICreate("test", $winWidth, $winHeigh, _
            (@DesktopWidth - $winWidth) / 2, (@DesktopHeight - $winHeigh) / 2, _
            $WS_CAPTION + $WS_SYSMENU + $WS_MINIMIZEBOX + $WS_VISIBLE + $WS_CLIPSIBLINGS)
    $GUIActiveX = GUICtrlCreateObj($oIE, 0, 0, $browserWidth, $browserHeigh)
    
    _IENavigate ($oIE, "http://bbs.zhuodou.com/posttopic.aspx?forumid=24")
    _IELoadWait($oIE)
    $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "postform")
    $oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "title")
    _IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, "testing titile")
    
    $oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "message")
    _IEAction ($oText, "visible")
    _IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, "testing message")
    GUISetState()       ;Show GUI
EndFunc

Somebody help me please...

[Richard Robertson]

We can't test it very well without an account. If you could download the source and show us the page for posting a topic, we might be able to help. I tried visiting the page just to see how the form was set up, but got what I can only assume was a message that I need to be logged in.

[DaleHohm]

Also show what messages are written to the SciTe console. Also, someone recently had two form controls on the same page with the same name and they were writing to the wrong one. Beware.

Dale

[chenxu]

We can't test it very well without an account. If you could download the source and show us the page for posting a topic, we might be able to help. I tried visiting the page just to see how the form was set up, but got what I can only assume was a message that I need to be logged in.

Thank you, and this is the web page I just saved.

[DaleHohm]

I opened your .htm file and ran the following code and it worked as expected:

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IEAttach("Discuz", "text")

$oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "postform")
$oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "title")
_IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, "testing titile")
   
$oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "message")
_IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, "testing message")

The _IEAction function call you chave in there is not valid because $oText is not an object, but rather the integer return value from the previous call.

The SciTe console messages would have made this much more obvious, but you ignored my request for those above. They are typically very instructive, please do not ignore them.

Dale