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Hi there

I have tried the solution offered at www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic19256.html

The thing is that the webpage is opened in a new explorer window and not in a new tab as I want. is there anyway to change this?

thanks

most likely - do you have an example?

Sorry if I am not clear , but I want to open a webpage (lets say Gmail) , and wait for it to load in order to continue and enter username&password. in order to do that I 've read the suggestion at www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic19256.html. I am trying to put the suggested lines in my script. The thing is that the explorer window is open in a new window, and not in a new tab (like pressing ctrl+t in explorer) which is what I want...

what should be my script stracture?, 1.gmail, 2.put the suggested script which makes it wait to load, and then 3. continue with another lines (enter username&password)?

I'm seeing 2 different questions, the first being how to open the webpage in a new tab rather than a new window. How are you opening this webpage? Clicking a link? Using th Run command? Are you using Internet Explorer & COM, as Sean's thread shows? What do you have so far for code?

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well , I guess the confusion arrise mostly because I am not used to run this script. I have understand that in order to run a webpage and wait for it to load I have to run sean script ( just change the webpage adress in sUrl line at the begining of the script)...

so far I have loaded a webpage (google for example) by the simple command : run www.google.com. then a new tab in internet explorer (in an explorer window which was already opened) is loaded.

when I am running sean script , a webpage is loaded in a new explorer window... all i do is running this: (maybe I need to do something else?)

#Persistent
sUrl := "http://www.gmail.com"

COM_Init()
pweb := COM_CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
sink := COM_ConnectObject(pweb, "IE_")
COM_Invoke(pweb, "Visible", True)

bComplete := False
COM_Invoke(pweb, "Navigate2", sUrl)
While !bComplete
Sleep, 500

COM_DisconnectObject(sink)
COM_Release(pweb)
COM_Term()
Return

OnComplete:
bComplete := True
Return

IE_DocumentComplete(prms, sink)
{
If NumGet(NumGet(prms+0)+24) = NumGet(sink+12)
SetTimer, OnComplete, -10
/* more rigorous way
COM_Release(punk1:=COM_QueryInterface(NumGet(NumGet(prms+0)+24),0))
COM_Release(punk2:=COM_QueryInterface(NumGet(sink+12),0))
If (punk1 = punk2)
SetTimer, OnComplete, -10
*/
}

IEReady(hIESvr = 0)
{
If Not hIESvr
{
Loop, 50
{
ControlGet, hIESvr, hWnd, , Internet Explorer_Server1, A ; ahk_class IEFrame
If hIESvr
Break
Else Sleep 100
}
If Not hIESvr
Return """Internet Explorer_Server"" Not Found."
}
Else
{
WinGetClass, sClass, ahk_id %hIESvr%
If Not sClass == "Internet Explorer_Server"
Return "The specified control is not ""Internet Explorer_Server""."
}

COM_Init()
If DllCall("SendMessageTimeout", "Uint", hIESvr, "Uint", DllCall("RegisterWindowMessage", "str", "WM_HTML_GETOBJECT"), "Uint", 0, "Uint", 0, "Uint", 2, "Uint", 1000, "UintP", lResult)
&& DllCall("oleacc\ObjectFromLresult", "Uint", lResult, "Uint", COM_GUID4String(IID_IHTMLDocument2,"{332C4425-26CB-11D0-B483-00C04FD90119}"), "int", 0, "UintP", pdoc)=0
&& pdoc && pweb:=COM_QueryService(pdoc,IID_IWebBrowserApp:="{0002DF05-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}")
{
While, COM_Invoke(pweb, "ReadyState") <> 4
Sleep, 500
While, COM_Invoke(pweb, "document.readyState") <> "complete"
Sleep, 500
COM_Release(pweb)
}
COM_Release(pdoc)
COM_Term()
Return pweb ? "DONE!" : False
}

I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say you're not experienced with COM, right?

Sean's example uses the DocumentComplete event; however, for simplicity, I'm going to use the ReadyState (or Busy - noted in comments) property. (if the previous sentence doesn't make sense right now, don't worry, it doesn't matter) Here is an example:

If this looks like a bunch of jibberish to you, I wouldn't be surprised (it would have to me ). However, IMO this is the best way to answer your question in one post. I would recommend studying Sean's thread, this example, & other COM examples in the forum.

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For some reason the above code doesn't work for me in IE7.



So I basically have to find the the new "pweb" and then the ReadyState/Value functions will work.. It's odd because the first Navigate2 function is sent to the first pweb, but opens a new window. However, the second Navigate2 function is sent to the 2nd pweb and it doesn't open a new window as the first does. The same happens with plain old Navigate.

Not sure if that makes sense, nor why it's happening.

Edit: I'm using Vista on this machine, however I know I've had similar code working on XP on other machines. So it might be either my IE7 settings (I reset them to default, same problem) or my OS (likely?).

Tested, works for me.
(IE8, WinXP)

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I'm simply wondering why it wouldn't work on my machine/setup. Visible creates a blank IE. Navigate2/Navigate (for that 'identity') opens a 2nd window with a different object 'identity.' I can make it work, regardless. I was wondering why this doesn't work. It seems like it ought to.

I have to cope with the same problem in vista, as I tried this... How do you get over this?

See if this thread answers your question: running COM commands on vista

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