Aslam Jeewa Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 (edited) Is there a flag or setting I may use to uniquely identify an instance of an open IE window using IE.au3? I need to run a 2nd application that closes a specific instance of an IE window (1 of many accessing the same website) & restarts it. I thought about setting the Title but its overwitten when I "navigate". I also tried $PID2 = ProcessExists("IEXPLORE.exe") ; Will return the PID or 0 if the process isn't found. If ProcessExists($PID2) Then Run("taskkill /F /T /IM " & $PID2, "", @SW_HIDE) but it doesn't necessarily kill the correct instance & I need to uniquely kill 1 instance only..... that I need to identify with a property that I have set.... Any ideas. PLEASE.... Edited December 22, 2008 by Aslam Jeewa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreik Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Is there a flag or setting I may use to uniquely identify an instance of an open IE window using IE.au3? I need to run a 2nd application that closes a specific instance of an IE window (1 of many accessing the same website) & restarts it. I thought about setting the Title but its overwitten when I "navigate". I also tried $PID2 = ProcessExists("IEXPLORE.exe") ; Will return the PID or 0 if the process isn't found. If ProcessExists($PID2) Then Run("taskkill /F /T /IM " & $PID2, "", @SW_HIDE)but it doesn't necessarily kill the correct instance & I need to uniquely kill 1 instance only..... that I need to identify with a property that I have set....Any ideas. PLEASE....Read in help file about WinList(). When the words fail... music speaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aslam Jeewa Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 Read in help file about WinList().Winlist still does not uniquely identify my specific Instance of IE as they both have the same title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someone Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 How are the windows different? You can use IEAttach to match against URL, text, html, hwnd... and others. You can also use instance instead. From there just IEQuit. While ProcessExists('Andrews bad day.exe') BlockInput(1) SoundPlay('Music.wav') SoundSetWaveVolume('Louder') WEnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torels Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 HWnd (Window Handles) are unique codes that identify a window... from that you can get all the info you need... and obvoiously handle the window Some Projects:[list][*]ZIP UDF using no external files[*]iPod Music Transfer [*]iTunes UDF - fully integrate iTunes with au3[*]iTunes info (taskbar player hover)[*]Instant Run - run scripts without saving them before :)[*]Get Tube - YouTube Downloader[*]Lyric Finder 2 - Find Lyrics to any of your song[*]DeskBox - A Desktop Extension Tool[/list]indifference will ruin the world, but in the end... WHO CARES :P---------------http://torels.altervista.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aslam Jeewa Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 Let me rephrase my problem I have both IE Windows open - Identical in all terms but the only way I can determine which one to close is if I set something in some property first (because I created both IE windows) say for example the title like "This is IE Window 1" - That would work & I would then "search" for that Title & close the window but Title gets overwitten when I navigate so I cannot use that. Even hWnd seems to be the same handle for both IE Windows unless I am doing something wrong? So... any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uten Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 do you talk about windows or tab's`? I get two different PID's when I open two instances of IE. So maybe you could use the PID to determine witch window to close? Please keep your sig. small! Use the help file. Search the forum. Then ask unresolved questions :) Script plugin demo, Simple Trace udf, TrayMenuEx udf, IOChatter demo, freebasic multithreaded dll sample, PostMessage, Aspell, Code profiling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleHohm Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 referencing:How are the windows different? You can use IEAttach to match against URL, text, html, hwnd... and others. You can also use instance instead. From there just IEQuit.Are you certain _IEAttach and _IEQuit do not give you what you need? There are many choices available to you with _IEAttach to find the correct window. Also, if you create the IE windows with _IECreate in the first place you will have a reference to each of them uniquely.Dale Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curl MSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object model Automate input type=file (Related) Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded Better Better? IE.au3 issues with Vista - Workarounds SciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead? Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aslam Jeewa Posted January 23, 2009 Author Share Posted January 23, 2009 I have now resorted to creating the 2nd applicastion using Forefox & then closing the Firefox application but it doesn't work perfectly all the time (Website is sometimes faulty) So it seems I have to go back to looking for a way to identify the seperate window if IE & close that particular instance. SO... I AM BACK TO SQUARE ONE Any ideas, PLEEEEEEASE - (_IEAttach cannot uniquely identify the Window, by the way) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgAndy Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 How do you open your IE windows? In your script, just use $pid = Run('"' & @ProgramFilesDir & '\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "www.autoitscript.com"') ... ProcessClose($pid) ;Or $oIE = _IECreate("www.autoitscript.com") ... _IEQuit($oIE) *GERMAN* [note: you are not allowed to remove author / modified info from my UDFs]My UDFs:[_SetImageBinaryToCtrl] [_TaskDialog] [AutoItObject] [Animated GIF (GDI+)] [ClipPut for Image] [FreeImage] [GDI32 UDFs] [GDIPlus Progressbar] [Hotkey-Selector] [Multiline Inputbox] [MySQL without ODBC] [RichEdit UDFs] [SpeechAPI Example] [WinHTTP]UDFs included in AutoIt: FTP_Ex (as FTPEx), _WinAPI_SetLayeredWindowAttributes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleHohm Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Note that a single IE PID can be responsible for multiple browser instances, so that later is preferrable. @Aslam Jeewa - you have provided no evidence as to why _IEAttach and _IECreate are not adequate Dale Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curl MSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object model Automate input type=file (Related) Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded Better Better? IE.au3 issues with Vista - Workarounds SciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead? Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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