How to get internet explorer to open?

[Greatness]

How to get internet explorer to open easily like putting in iexplore?

[Insolence]

I believe if you search you will find the answer

[Greatness]

FileOpen ( "iexplore.exe", o )

mouseclick ("left", 197, 107, 1)

send ( "www.mail.yahoo.com{ENTER}", 0)

It messes up at the first part:*(, Instead of opening internet explorer, it makes a file iexplore in the autoit3 folder and it just continues on with the other things in script. Can someone help me with that plz? Thanks

[b14ck]

Don't use FileOpen.. Use Run, look in the C:\ProgramFiles\IEXPLORE\IEXPLORE.EXE if I remember correctly. (Been a while)

[Greatness]

Thanks!

[Nova]

Seeing as ur new, maby you dont know but theres a great little search button on the top of the forums, I found this by doing a search for internet explorer

You could do it this way

Run( "iexplore.exe")
WinWait("Your Homepage - Microsoft Internet Explorer")
mouseclick ("left", 197, 107, 1)
send ( "www.mail.yahoo.com{ENTER}", 0)

But this way is alot better and more reliable.

Run ("explorer.exe" & " http://www.mail.yahoo.com","",)

Hope this is what your looking for, welcome to the forum.

Remember theres always more than one way to skin a cat

Happy scripting

Nova

Edited December 25, 2004 by nova

[Insolence]

I'll explain this command:

Run ("explorer.exe" & " http://www.mail.yahoo.com")

Basically that's calling the program itself, BUT adding a command as it calls it. I think that's known as the 'command line' of a program.

I.E. If you were to call 'Diablo II.exe' (a game) and add the option '-ns' it would remove sound from the game. Calling it + the option would look like this:

Run ("Diablo II.exe -ns")

Simply seperate the program from the commands with a space.

Hope that explains it a bit better.

[Greatness]

Thanks, this place is very user-friendly!

[Insolence]

That's one reason it's my favorite scripting language

I guess you'd call it that?