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i am trying to enter data in an entry field which is triggered by some javascript / ajax

#include <IE.au3>

;$sUrl = "www.dizzler.com/music/C"
$sUrl = "www.dizzler.com"
$oIE = _IECreate($sUrl, 1)

$this_form_name = "searchform";
$oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, $this_form_name); the form name
$form_edit_obj = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "q");  name of the ENTRY field 

; now set the values to fields
_IEFormElementSetValue($form_edit_obj, "abba");
_IEFormSubmit($oForm);

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CODE
<form id="searchform" name="searchform" class="noinit" action="/music/" method="get" onsubmit="Dizzler_Search(); return false;">

<input type="hidden" name="media" value="mp3" />

<div style="background:url(new/newImages/search_bg.gif) top left no-repeat; width:395px; height:65px; margin:0px; padding-left:2px;">

<input name="q" id="q" type="text" onclick="Searchbar_Click();" onblur="Searchbar_UnClick();" style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 17px; width:322px;margin: 5px 5px 0px 3px;" maxlength="50" onkeyup="SA(this.value);" onkeydown="sbkd(event);" value="" disableautocomplete=1 autocomplete="off" />

<input name="searchbtn" id="searchbtn" type="submit" value=" " style="background: url(new/newImages/btn_search.gif) top left no-repeat; width:36px; height:36px; border:none; cursor:pointer;" />

<br />

<table style="margin-left: 5px;" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 id="radiobtns">

<tr>

<td id="mtype_music" class="searchmode" style="background-color:#555555; margin-top: 0px;" onclick="return setSearchType('music');">Music</td>

<td id="mtype_video"class="searchmode" onclick="return setSearchType('video');">Video</td>

<td class="searchmode" onclick="document.location.href='/';" style="font-size:13px; border-right:0px;">more</td>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

</form>

Edited by nobbe
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I did some testing on that site, and I can't get _IEFormElementSetValue to work, but _IEFormElementGetValue works fine. :S

However, I managed to set it with java script:

#include <ie.au3>

$ieObj = _IECreate("http://www.dizzler.com/")

$formObj = _IEFormGetObjByName($ieObj, "searchform")
$inputObj = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($formObj, "q")

_IEAction($inputObj, "click")
_IENavigate($ieObj, 'java script:void(document.searchform.q.value="Test")', 0)

You need to set focus on the element first, but _IEAction($inputObj, "focus") didn't work, but "click" does.

Edit:

uhm, remove the space between java and script... forum keeps adding it >_>

Edited by FreeFry
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hi

thanks for leading me in the direction , this was really tricky..

the following code works for me now

CODE
#include <IE.au3>

$sUrl = "http://www.dizzler.com/"

$oIE = _IECreate($sUrl, 1)

$formObj = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "searchform")

$inputObj = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($formObj, "q")

$searchvalue = "phil collins"

_IEAction($inputObj, "click") ; activate object first

_IENavigate($oIE, 'java script:void(document.searchform.q.value="' & $searchvalue & '"' & ')', 0);

; submit button as entry field??

$submitObj = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($formObj, "searchbtn")

_IEAction($submitObj, "click") ;

;_IEFormSubmit($formObj); doesnt work here..

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Just for the record, _IEFormElementSetValue is doing what it is asked to do. The value actually gets set and if you watch carefully you can see it flash into the field and then immediately get removed. There is a lot of Javascript tied to that form element:

<INPUT id=q onkeydown="return sbkd(event);" onblur=Searchbar_UnClick(); onkeyup=SA(this.value); style="BORDER-RIGHT: #7e7c7c 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #7e7c7c 1px solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; BORDER-LEFT: #7e7c7c 1px solid; WIDTH: 400px; COLOR: #888888; BORDER-BOTTOM: #7e7c7c 1px solid" onclick=Searchbar_Click(); maxLength=50 name=q autocomplete="off" disableautocomplete="disableautocomplete">

The source of your trouble is that in addition to setting the field value, _IEFormElementSetValue also fires two events on the field: onchange and onclick. It is likely the onclick that is activating some code that is clearing the field again.

Fortunately, _IEFormElementSetValue allows you to turn off the firing of these events with an optional parameter. So, this works:

#include <IE.au3>

$sUrl = "http://www.dizzler.com/"
$oIE = _IECreate($sUrl, 1)

$formObj = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "searchform")
$inputObj = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($formObj, "q")
$submitObj = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($formObj, "searchbtn")

$searchvalue = "phil collins"

_IEAction($inputObj, "click") ; activate object first
_IEFormElementSetValue($inputObj, $searchvalue, 0)
_IEAction($submitObj, "click")

Thanks, that was an interesting problem.

Dale

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thanks for pointing it out

the ",0)" was probably the trigger that let the value set as is without firing the additional javascript

_IEFormElementSetValue($inputObj, $searchvalue, 0)

the ajax in the server seems to set the values to the nearest matching possibility.

try with

$searchvalue = "phil coll" etc... to see what happens

greetings nob

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