[Solved] Can I perform operations on IE's Forms AutoComplete ListView?

[Zohar]

Hello

Can I perform operations on IE's AutoComplete ListBox?

for example _GUICtrlListBox_SelectString.

Right now what I'm doing is Sending "{Down}" several times, to select the right Item in the AutoComplete ListBox.

But the items there may change in the future,

so I'm looking for a more deterministic way of selecting a specific item, via its string..

Is it possible?

How do I get a Handle to the AutoComplete ListBox?

Edited March 4, 2009 by Zohar

[Pain]

Are you sure it's a listbox and not a dropdown?

If it's a listbox you can use _GUICtrlListBox_SelectString as you said. The only difference from when you use it on your own GUI is that you need to get the handle (WinGetHandle) and use it as the $hWnd parameter.

[Zohar]

It looks like a TextBox+ListBox no?

doesn't really look like a ComboBox..

you can see it in any site where you are required to enter Username+Password, and AutoComplete rememebers the usernames that used this site already.

my problem is to get the Handle to it..

anyone has done this before and can paste the code he used?

[Pain]

I was thinking it might be a combobox because _GUICtrlComboBox_AutoComplete creates a AutoComplete box.

[Zohar]

Well,

using AutoIt Window Info tool, I discovered that apparently the AutoComplete control is actually a ListView.

It seems like a ListView that has its own small window(this small window's size, and the listview' size are the same).

I attached here a screen shot of AutoIt Window Info tool, when pointing an open AutoComplete box.

The CLASSNN for the control is SysListView321.

But the weird thing is that the CLASS of the window containing it, is a name that contains spaces.. "Auto-Suggest Dropdown"...

How can a class name contain spaces hehe..

[see the attached image]

anyhow, I tried getting a Handle to this ListView control, and then Finding an item there,

and the result I get is 0 instead of 3.

anyone knows what I am doing wrong and how to fix it?

CODE

Local $hAutoComplete =ControlGetHandle("[CLASS:Auto-Suggest Dropdown]","","[CLASSNN:SysListView321]")

MsgBox(0,"",_GUICtrlListView_FindText($hAutoComplete,"user3"))

Edited January 27, 2009 by Zohar

[Zohar]

the solution:

Func    FindItemInFormAutoComplete($Item_Text)
    Local   $hControl   =ControlGetHandle("AutoSuggest Drop-Down","","[CLASSNN:SysListView321]")
    Return _GUICtrlListView_FindInText($hControl,$Item_Text)
EndFunc