help with a web page

[bhogue]

Thanks to a previous post, I can invoke IE and bring up the desired web page. Unfortunately the subsequent SEND and PRESS do not appear to accomplish anything. Help! The relevant lines from my macro are

Run Program>c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplorer.exe "webPage"
WaitWindowOpen>internet explorer*
SetFocus>internet explorer*
Send>%organizationId%
Press Tab
Send>%userId%
Press Tab
MessageModal>ending

I see the browser open to the desired page. Next I see the "ending" box from the MessageModal. The web page has not changed.

-brian

[Me_again]

It won't necessarily fix your issue but as I learned from support in this thread http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtop ... lorer+busy waitwindowopen is not a reliable way to wait for a webpage to load. The correct way is to use IE's own busy function.

Sub OpenPage(URL,Wait)
Dim IE
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
IE.visible = 1
IE.navigate URL

do while IE.Busy and Wait
loop
End Sub

[fightcancer]

using the idea of looping while IE is busy, how would I use the VB SET statement to definite IE as a window that is already open as opposed to creating a new instance of IE?

thanks a bunch!

[support]

You can't. Normally you would use GetObject instead of CreateObject but GetObject isn't supported by Internet Explorer. So you need to create the window you automate.

[fightcancer]

ok. thanks again for all the help.

I guess as a work around I'll have the macro copy the URL from the browser window, close it, then create a new browser window w/the existing IE.Busy script and navigate to that copied URL.