Howto interact with forms in frames correctly?

[rudi]

Hi.

I found here a lot of Q's upon IE.AU3 and did read the help file topics upon _IE*() functions, but cannot figure out how to

The page this is about has just two frames. In the bottom frame there are several form areas. (see attached image)

What I want to do is to walk through the selection steps 1-5, then "click" (submit the form?) the button [download dateien] and to save with a modified name to a given path.

For step 3 I want to go through all the possible combinations (wich will be saved with unique names, of course)

This is what I've combined from the help file:

#include <ie.au3>
; POI-Updater
$url="http://www.gas-tankstellen.de/menu.php?jump=poi"

$oIE = _IECreate($url)

$oFrames=_IEFrameGetCollection ($oIE)
$iNumFrames = @extended
If $iNumFrames > 0 Then
    If _IEIsFrameSet ($oIE) Then
        MsgBox(0, "Frame Info", "Page contains " & $iNumFrames & " frames in a FrameSet")
    Else
        MsgBox(0, "Frame Info", "Page contains " & $iNumFrames & " iFrames")
    EndIf
    For $i = 0 to ($iNumFrames - 1)
    $oFrame = _IEFrameGetCollection ($oIE, $i)
    MsgBox(0, "Frame Info", _IEPropertyGet ($oFrame, "locationurl"))
Next

Else
    MsgBox(0, "Frame Info", "Page contains no frames")
EndIf

Howto get the names of the radio buttons / check boxes in Frame 2?

Howto submit the modified form?

Howto specify the file name the files shall be saved to?

I expect that this is some pretty basic IE.AU3 thing, well, I can't see howto ...

Regards, Rudi.

Edited May 12, 2008 by rudi

[goldenix]

Why not just get the Frame 2 URL & manipulate that URL:

http://www.gas-tankstellen.de/poi.php?checksum=22e1a9746b

In firefox right click on the frame2->This frame->View Frame Info

Vuala

Edited May 12, 2008 by goldenix

[rudi]

Why not just get the Frame 2 URL & manipulate that URL:

http://www.gas-tankstellen.de/poi.php?checksum=22e1a9746b

In firefox right click on the frame2->This frame->View Frame Info

My question is upon howto use IE.AU3 to do it. (or how does firefox help here to use IE.au3?)

Finally it shall run with the IE window invisible.

Regards, Rudi.

[DaleHohm]

Suggest you try DebugBar (see my sig) to quickly learn about the element names and structure of your page.

Suggest you give that a try and come back with more questions.

Dale

[rudi]

Suggest you try DebugBar (see my sig) to quickly learn about the element names and structure of your page.

Suggest you give that a try and come back with more questions.

Dale

Great DLL!!! respect!

How do I know from debug bar's output what to do using IE.AU3?

Regards, Rudi.

[DaleHohm]

YOu are in the 2nd Frame... it has a name... use

$oFrame = _IEFrameGetObjByName($oIE, "the-name")

There is a form that has a name form1

$oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oFrame, "form1")

Then use _IEFormElementRadioSelect

Dale

[rudi]

YOu are in the 2nd Frame...

Yes, I've seen that.

it has a name... use

$oFrame = _IEFrameGetObjByName($oIE, "the-name")

Hm. All I see is "Frame" for both, frame1 and frame2?

There is a form that has a name form1

Yes, that I've seen again...

$oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oFrame, "form1")

Then use _IEFormElementRadioSelect

I'm quite far away to "think of IE as an API" ...

Thanks, regards, Rudi.

Edited May 13, 2008 by rudi

[DaleHohm]

So if you click on the 2nd frame in the tree view of DebugBar it will show you the source for it including the name= -- I didn't give the the exact command for getting the frame reference because I cannot see it in the screen shot you left (it could well be called frame2, but you'll need to check). You should be able to use the $oForm line just as is as soon as you have hte $oFrame reference.

Then see the helpfile for examples of using _IEFormElementRadioSelect (note that the radio name=gas).

Dale