Newbie question: Hotmail Login

[BreadthFirst]

I'm quite embarassed to even have to ask this, but here goes:

I decided to try out the typical hotmail login program as an intro to using the IE.au3 UDF. I ran into a minor issue when signed into msn messenger before opening hotmail while running the script; I get the following page before the login forms appear:

I want to click "sign in with a different account" on this website, but the _IELinkClickByText command isn't working for some reason. Why doesn't this work? How can I get clicking on that link to work?

thanks!

Here is my code so far.

CODE

#include <IE.au3>

; create maximized hotmail window

$oIE = _IECreate("www.hotmail.com")

$oHwnd = _IEPropertyGet($oIE, "hwnd")

WinSetState($oHwnd, "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)

; if someone is already logged on and info page appears,

; click on "Sign in with a different account"

_IELinkClickByText($oIE, "Sign in with a different account") ; doesn't work

#cs

; login to hotmail

$oForm = _IEFormGetByName($oIE, "f1")

$oUserName = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "login")

$pwd = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "passwd")

_IEFormElementSetValue($oUserName, "emailaddress@hotmail.com")

_IEFormElementSetValue($pwd, "password")

#ce

Exit

Random question: is it necessary to insert the "Exit" at the end of any script or do scripts automatically terminate once they reach the end?

[DaleHohm]

Are you using DebugBar (or anything similar) to investigate the page structure? Strongly suggest it if not.

When you say "doesn't work" -- please be specific as to what you mean. For me, it show the login and passwd form.

Dale

[BreadthFirst]

Are you using DebugBar (or anything similar) to investigate the page structure? Strongly suggest it if not.

When you say "doesn't work" -- please be specific as to what you mean. For me, it show the login and passwd form.

Dale

Hi Dale,

I am using debugbar, but I don't really know how to use it that well to be honest. When I drag debugbar's blue target on the "sign in with a different account" link, the program doesn't display any information. I'll start reading up on using the program, however.

If you run my script, does it immediately show the login and password form?? Or does it go to the "sign in with a different account" page and succesfully click on the link?

On my computer, hotmail opens in IE succesfully and takes me to the "sign in with a different account" page. However, the script doesn't successfully click on the "sign in with a different account" link--it doesn't seem to do anything.

Thanks for your help!

[DaleHohm]

Yes, I run your script and get the login and passwd form on the screen.

When DebugBar does not show you the source when you drag the bulls-eye, right-click it the DOM section in the top left and choose "Rebuild DOM tree".

Dale