How to click a javascript link?

[b0ris]

Could you spare some time to shed me some light on how to click a javascript "link"?

I've already checked all the help file and most of the forum topics but haven't found a clear answer on this.

For example, if I have a link which looks like this(I've got this by clicking 'Copy Shortcut'):

LINK REMOVED

or there's another example:

LINK REMOVED

How can I click this? Any idea?

Edited June 17, 2008 by b0ris

[ivan]

Could you spare some time to shed me some light on how to click a javascript "link"?

I've already checked all the help file and most of the forum topics but haven't found a clear answer on this.

For example, if I have a link which looks like this(I've got this by clicking 'Copy Shortcut'):

java script:changeContent('/Hyperion/browse/browseList?dest=00000112b980fed9-0000-047a-0a0c00e7','/Hyperion/browse/browseNav?dest=00000112b980fed9-0000-047a-0a0c00e7');

or there's another example:

java script:windowOpenInsight("/Hyperion/dataaccess/Browse?REQUEST_TYPE=GET_DOCUMENT&DOC_UUID=0000010653f4bee8-0000-0d11-0a0c00e7&DOC_VERSION=1&JScript=enable","_newODS");

How can I click this? Any idea?

Click, out of ideas, navigate to link will accomplish the same task.

You might want to get a collection of links available in the document with _IELinkGetCollection and use _IENavigate to the href of the link. This will only work for links that are made available to the document and not created dynamically, but it's worked for me in the past.

Now, if you own the script you could use a procedure like the one in my sig to transfer js data to au3.

ivan

Edited May 29, 2008 by ivan

[b0ris]

Click, out of ideas, navigate to link will accomplish the same task.

You might want to get a collection of links available in the document with _IELinkGetCollection and use _IENavigate to the href of the link. This will only work for links that are made available to the document and not created dynamically, but it's worked for me in the past.

Now, if you own the script you could use a procedure like the one in my sig to transfer js data to au3.

ivan

Thank you for the quick reply. However, _IELinkGetCollection is telling me that there are 0 links so I'm afraid that's not the thing I should do....

Any other ideas?

[DaleHohm]

You can only click on elements that appear in the document. Those are javascripts that are most certainly bound to some other element on the page. You need to figure out how these scripts are called. DebugBar may help you.

Dale

[ivan]

Use fireEvent Method to trigger the changeContent event.

FROM MSDN:

fireEvent Method

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Fires a specified event on the object.

Syntax

bFired = object.fireEvent(sEvent [, oEventObject])

Parameters

sEvent Required. String that specifies the name of the event to fire.

oEventObject Optional. Object that specifies the event object from which to obtain event object properties.

Return Value

Boolean. Returns one of the following values:

true Event fired successfully.

false Event was cancelled.

Hope this works

IVAN

Edited May 29, 2008 by ivan

[b0ris]

Use fireEvent Method to trigger the changeContent event.

FROM MSDN:

Hope this works

IVAN

Sorry, I'm not sure I've got the point of that...my code looks like this at the moment:

#Include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate ("https://localhost/browse")
$passw = "********"
_IELoadWait ($oIE)
WinSetState("","",@SW_MAXIMIZE)
MouseClick("left",383,383,1)
send($passw)
Mouseclick("left",379,679,1)
_IELoadWait ($oIE)
$sEvent="click"
$bFired=$oIE.fireEvent($sEvent,$oIE)
MsgBox(1,"link",$bFired)
_IELoadWait ($oIE)
MouseMove(143,374)
MouseDown("left")
MouseMove(222,374)
MouseUp("left")
_IELoadWait ($oIE)

It seems like it's not working at the moment because of the fireEvent thing I just added. I haven't found the method in the help file, so no idea how to use it...

[ivan]

I see you're using a local server to test your script. Have you got an internet page in mind so I can conduct a test?

Specifically, I'm looking for an event in the tag that contains the link. For example, an image may have an onmousedown="functionName(parameters);" within the img tag.

What you then have to do is to obtain an object reference to the tag and fire the onmousedown event to get the browser to navigate to the link.

Edited May 30, 2008 by ivan

[b0ris]

I see you're using a local server to test your script. Have you got an internet page in mind so I can conduct a test?

Nope, I'm not using localhost, just I've changed the address in the script as I think it may be confidential...However, I can save a copy of one of the pages and send it over to you in e-mail if you could spare some time to check it...

[ivan]

If you followed the update on my last post then your autoit could look something like

$oRef.fireEvent("onmousedown")

where $oRef is the reference to your image tag.

If you want you may e-mail me at iap.perez@yahoo.com

PS. The source code of Dale's _IE library contains a few fireEvent which may guide you through the process

IVAN

Edited May 30, 2008 by ivan