Help with _IEFormSubmit

[lolp1]

Hi, need some help using the _IEFormSubmit.

On some forums I use, before you make a post you need to of course click the Add Reply button, and I'm trying to auto-mate 1 post. I seem to have some problems with _IEFormSubmit

In the example it shows:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate ("http://www.google.com")
$oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "f")
$oQuery = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "q")
_IEFormElementSetValue ($oQuery, "AutoIt IE.au3")
_IEFormSubmit ($oForm)

How ever I'm not sure why it's using, $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "f")

What is the F for? The button name is Add Reply if thats any help...

[d4rk]

"f" is the Form name, in html code, it's

<Form name="f">

[lolp1]

"f" is the Form name, in html code, it's

<Form name="f">

Ok, but how is "f" getting the func to click on "Google search"?

How do I go about getting the proper form name for the button I want to press?

[PsaltyDS]

Hi, need some help using the _IEFormSubmit.

On some forums I use, before you make a post you need to of course click the Add Reply button, and I'm trying to auto-mate 1 post. I seem to have some problems with _IEFormSubmit

In the example it shows:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate ("http://www.google.com")
$oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "f")
$oQuery = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "q")
_IEFormElementSetValue ($oQuery, "AutoIt IE.au3")
_IEFormSubmit ($oForm)

How ever I'm not sure why it's using, $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "f")

What is the F for? The button name is Add Reply if thats any help...

A form contains elements (which could be more forms), similar to a GUI containing controls. The demo script gets an object reference to $oIE which is the IE document (more specifically, the Document Object Model, or DOM). Then it gets the object reference $oForm, which is the form named "f" contained in $oIE. Next it gets the object reference to the element "q" at $oQuery and sets that to a value.

Lastly, it sends a "submit" command to the form object $oForm. Some forms are coded in their HTML to act on that, some are not. The google page is, and that script works fine. The form you are actually working with may not accept "submit", but may need a more specific action, like getting the object reference to an input button element and doing _IEAction($oButton, "click").

The remaining issue is how to identify the objects you need to work with. One answer is to just view the source from the browser (Ctrl-U in Firefox, I don't know the shortcut in IE). Another answer with more power is DebugBar for IE, or DOM Inspector for Firefox.

To go on with this, you need to educate yourself on the basics of the DOM for IE, since that is what AutoIt's IE.au3 is based on. There is no equivelent Firefox.au3 yet, and no prospect of one soon.