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In a Internet Explorer_Server1 control there is a text (or Element) whose position (coordinates) is variable and I want to determine.

Using IWebBrowser2, the Element Info shows as:
Value/InnerText: WordToDetermineCoordinates
OuterHtML: <TD class=title-td>WordToDetermineCoordinates</TD>

Can I get the coordinates using iWeb.ahk functions or is there another method to determine Text Coordinates?
I noticed this thread: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic52688.html, but I dont get anything working.

I'm stuck with this for days now , help will be much appreciated.

Check out Sean's IE HTML Element Spy.

Thanks for the link.
The answer is surely there... but invisible to me

I know

Also hWnd is known, thus pwin, but then things get crazy, among other things because I am clueless about where those "functions" come from (like "src", "tagName"...etc), and I am afraid that I'll need different "functions" for inverting the equation and get t :=COM_Invoke(pbrt, "top")

This is very difficult to me. I even dont know where to get documented...and the script is not commented ..

Please help with this

Here's a quick example ( using AHKL & COM_L ):
**NOTE** - this is based on Sean's work from the link in the second post

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what really is the benifet of getting the coordinates?

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Formal request to Polyethene

Well, outside of outlining the element, you could use the coordinates along with MouseClick to click the element .

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and what do we thing the benifet over the click method is?

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Formal request to Polyethene

None that I'm aware of - but it would be an option .

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I suppose my point is why go thru all the trouble to get coordinates when you can just use the click method and skip the complicated steps of getting the coordinates

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Formal request to Polyethene

Hey Jethrow, thank you so much for your reply, it helped me noticing pWin.document.all.btnG, which points out that I do not need to use the outer html, but to find the element name.

With IWebBrowser2 (big thanks to Tank, jethrow (again) and sinkfaze), I could find the element ID (was not easy for this one, just 1 pixel thick hidden line). Then, because I am a total noob about COM, I only managed to modify Sean's script (big thanks to him also) the minimum to make it get the coordinates.



You are generally right (of course), but I needed to click on a specific position, unknowing which element will be placed at it. So just doing ControlClick eases thing a lot for me in this case.

Babylon is the application I am trying to automate.
What I achieved is how to click on the dictionary's entries in the Sidebar. But now I found that I can directly get the Dictionary's Headers Element id in the main pane, and that they are detected even if they are not visible (cause you have to scroll down/up).
So now I am trying, without luck, to: 1st detect those elements on the main page and 2nd to navigate to them (or click on them).

As I said, this is quite difficult for me, so I may eventually give up and be content with what I already got working.

Have you tried reading that link under tank's posts?

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