IE Management

[shx]

I see that the IE management can allow an auto it application to navigate fill in information and submit forms and web pages.

My question is that I want to present a web page but not allow the user to click on certain links and buttons on that page.

Does the udf have this functionality?

I thought that the InternetExplorer.Application object it is using has a before navigate event.

That would be something that might work. where, if i could fire off some code to check on the destination url before the navigations takes place I could prevent its navigation.

any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Steven

[Valuater]

If you already know what you are looking for.... example from "Welcome to Autoit 1-2-3"

; Read the contents of the body of a webpage and search for a string. If the string is found, replace it 
; with a new string and write it back to the webpage.

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate()
_IENavigate($oIE, "http://www.autoitscript.com/")

$body = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)

If StringInStr($body, "automation") Then
    MsgBox(0, "Success", "The string was found")
    $newbody = StringReplace($body, "automation", "AUTOMATION - Yeah!")
    _IEBodyWriteHTML($oIE, $newbody)
Else
    MsgBox(0, "Fail", "The string was NOT found")
EndIf

Exit

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[shx]

If you already know what you are looking for.... example from "Welcome to Autoit 1-2-3"

; Read the contents of the body of a webpage and search for a string. If the string is found, replace it 
; with a new string and write it back to the webpage.

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate()
_IENavigate($oIE, "http://www.autoitscript.com/")

$body = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)

If StringInStr($body, "automation") Then
    MsgBox(0, "Success", "The string was found")
    $newbody = StringReplace($body, "automation", "AUTOMATION - Yeah!")
    _IEBodyWriteHTML($oIE, $newbody)
Else
    MsgBox(0, "Fail", "The string was NOT found")
EndIf

Exit

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I see that it changes text that the user sees but I'm not sure how this would help.

Are you saying to search for the link url and blank it out ?

Steven

[Valuater]

Yes, that was one direction

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[shx]

Yes, that was one direction

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I was looking for a way to capture the before navigate event. I really would appreciate some help or direction with it.

I found objevent function that might help me do what I need.

Can someone tell me will it let me stop a navigation by checking the url the web browser is navigating to.

Thanks

Steven

Edited January 20, 2009 by shx

[Valuater]

you can continually read the input ( where the URL is normally typed in ) and test it for a name or ???

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate("www.autoit3.com")

While 1
    $URL = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "locationurl")
    ToolTip($URL, 10, 10, "Thanks    Valuater... 8)  ", 1)
    Sleep(1000)
WEnd

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Edited January 20, 2009 by Valuater

[Valuater]

Edited 3 times... works now

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[DaleHohm]

Unfortunately, the way that AutoIt handles events does not allow you to cancel an event that has been triggered. AutoIt actually handles events asynchronously rather than synchronously and by the time you have a chance to work on it, it has already been fired.

Therefore, you must either rewrite the links in the HTML code (As Valuater is suggesting) or you must add your own event functions to the links them in the HTML so that you can cancel the event processing synchronously. Take a look at _IEHeadInsertEventScript and _IELinkGetCollection. There is an example of doing this somewhere in the forum.

Dale

Edited January 20, 2009 by DaleHohm

[shx]

Unfortunately, the way that AutoIt handles events does not allow you to cancel an event that has been triggered. AutoIt actually handles events asynchronously rather than synchronously and by the time you have a chance to work on it, it has already been fired.

Therefore, you must either rewrite the links in the HTML code (As Valuater is suggesting) or you must add your own event functions to the links them in the HTML so that you can cancel the event processing synchronously. Take a look at _IEHeadInsertEventScript and _IELinkGetCollection. There is an example of doing this somewhere in the forum.

Dale

Valuater,

Thanks for your help. I think the _IEHeadInsertEventScript is the direction which I want to go.

Dale,

Thanks for the answer. I looked at the _IEHeadInsertEventScript function, and it looks like I could use it to do what I need.

Just one more question. Is there a good location where I can see a listing of the different objects and their associated events that the javascript could interface with. I see there is document, window, and link? being used in the examples.

Thanks again for all your help