IE.au3 errors

[bundyxc]

I know that there was already a topic on this (here), but it looks like the OP never came back, therefore the topic was left unsolved. By the looks of it, Dale knew exactly what to do, but he wanted the guy to figure it out. Now, I've looked through IE.au3, but in all honesty.. I don't know what I should be looking for.

Here's the program.

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE =_IECreate("http://infiniteadds.com",0,0,1)
$o_fid = _IEGetObjByName($oIE,"friendid")
$o_submit=_IEGetObjByName($oIE,"action")
_IEFormElementSetValue ($o_fid, "21802680")
_IEAction($o_submit,"click")
_IELoadWait ($oIE)

$oIE = _IENavigate($oIE, "http://infiniteadds.org")
$o_fid = _IEGetObjByName($oIE,"friendid")
$o_submit=_IEGetObjByName($oIE,"action")
_IEFormElementSetValue ($o_fid, "442500255")
_IEAction($o_submit,"click")
_IELoadWait ($oIE)

$oIE = _IENavigate($oIE, "http://maxadds.com")
$o_fid = _IEGetObjByName($oIE,"friendid")
$o_submit=_IEGetObjByName($oIE,"action")
_IEFormElementSetValue ($o_fid, "21802680")
_IEAction($o_submit,"click")
_IELoadWait ($oIE)

$oIE = _IENavigate($oIE, "maxadds.com")
$o_fid = _IEGetObjByName($oIE,"friendid")
$o_submit=_IEGetObjByName($oIE,"action")
_IEFormElementSetValue ($o_fid, "442500255")
_IEAction($o_submit,"click")
_IELoadWait ($oIE)

_IEQuit($oIE)

And here are all the errors that showed when I ran it (F5).

--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementSetValue, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEAction, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IELoadWait, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IENavigate, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementSetValue, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEAction, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IELoadWait, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IENavigate, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementSetValue, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEAction, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IELoadWait, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEQuit, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType

EDIT: Now it works.. but I'd still like to know what was going on. All I did was take out the "$oIE = " before my "_IENavigate"s....?

Edited January 6, 2009 by bundyxc

[Pain]

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=87205

_IENavigate navigates to the page, there is no need to save the value. The values are:

Return Value

Success: Returns -1 
Failure: Returns 0 and sets @ERROR 
@Error: 0 ($_IEStatus_Success) = No Error 
 1 ($_IEStatus_GeneralError) = General Error 
 3 ($_IEStatus_InvalidDataType) = Invalid Data Type 
 4 ($_IEStatus_InvalidObjectType) = Invalid Object Type 
 6 ($_IEStatus_LoadWaitTimeout) = Load Wait Timeout 
 8 ($_IEStatus_AccessIsDenied) = Access Is Denied 
 9 ($_IEStatus_ClientDisconnected) = Client Disconnected 
@Extended: Contains invalid parameter number

Next time you need the handle to the IE object it will fail because -1 isn't an object.

Let's take a look at _IECreate.

Return Value

Success: Returns an object variable pointing to an InternetExplorer.Application object
Failure: Returns 0 and sets @ERROR 
@Error: 0 ($_IEStatus_Success) = No Error 
 1 ($_IEStatus_GeneralError) = General Error 
 3 ($_IEStatus_InvalidDataType) = Invalid Data Type 
 4 ($_IEStatus_InvalidObjectType) = Invalid Object Type 
 6 ($_IEStatus_LoadWaitTimeout) = Load Wait Timeout 
 8 ($_IEStatus_AccessIsDenied) = Access Is Denied 
 9 ($_IEStatus_ClientDisconnected) = Client Disconnected 
@Extended: Set to true (1) or false (0) depending on the success of $f_tryAttach

As you can see it returns a handle to the IE object and that's what we need to continue.

Success: Returns an object variable pointing to an InternetExplorer.Application object

Edited January 6, 2009 by Pain

[bundyxc]

Thanks. My script worked for a while, but now it's acting strange.

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE =_IECreate("http://infiniteadds.com",0,1,1)
$o_fid = _IEGetObjByName($oIE,"friendid")
$o_submit= _IEGetObjByName($oIE,"action")
_IEFormElementSetValue ($o_fid, "21802680")
_IEAction($o_submit,"click")
_IELoadWait ($oIE)
$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection ($oIE, 0)
$iNumLinks = @extended
$link = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE, $iNumLinks - 104);
_IEAction($link,"click")
_IELoadWait ($oIE)

This script is opening up two IE windows. One doesn't go anywhere, and the other goes to the right site, but doesn't do anything. Any ideas?

[TerarinK]

#RequireAdmin is what you need if your script, it is because UAC does that so RequireAdmin bypasses it by running it Admin or Administrator or whatever you have it set to

[bundyxc]

Wow, thank you SO much. How did you know that this was the problem?