How to select a Tab / specific Window in IE

[rajeshontheweb]

Hi there, i rather keep this seperate that it might be useful as such.

i am trying two things with IE.au3

1) give an option to the user to select a window (which would be populated using all available windows or something like that) - this is a later on project

2) main requirement - i need to select a specific tab in internet explorer

say i have some page and when i double click, it opens a tab whose title i may not be knowing all the time.

if i am allowed to select a window like using a file picker or something, then i would be able to extract the content from that window and work with it. how easy can this be achieved?

Trouble is that i dont wanna be running the code with a specific window class title everytime i want to call this script.

pls confirm if my question is clear enough sorry for the language..

[Authenticity]

#include <IE.au3>
Dim Const $navOpenInNewTab = 0x0800

Dim $o_IE = _IECreate('http://www.google.com/')
$o_IE.Navigate2('http://www.yahoo.com', $navOpenInNewTab)

Dim $hWnd = _IEPropertyGet($o_IE, 'hwnd')

ControlSend($hWnd, '', '', '^{TAB}')
Sleep(500)
ControlSend($hWnd, '', '', '^{TAB}')
Sleep(500)
ControlSend($hWnd, '', '', '^{TAB}')
Sleep(500)
ControlSend($hWnd, '', '', '^{TAB}')
Sleep(500)

[LondonNDIB]

Hi, I've been away from AutoIt for a long time. Have a need to open a new browser in a new tab and found this solution. However, "Navigate2" doesn't appear to be a valid function.

I downloaded the latest version (3.3) but still no love. Considered maybe its in the beta, but according to the update program the beta is older than the release?

Lil help?

thanks.

[Authenticity]

It's a method exposed by the InternetExplorer.Application object so you won't get documentation for it in the AutoIt help file. Take a look over here -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa...28VS.85%29.aspx

[LondonNDIB]

I see, thank you.

So there's probably no (reasonably simple) way of opening a page in a new browser AND having it returned as an opject in my script for further automation?

That's ok. I guess it isn't THAT important that I do it in a tab. I'll just open a 2nd window. Thanks.