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[Visioneer]

Hi,

Are there ways to get the values from an IE Properties box that would
popup when you right-click on a web-page's jpeg etc. photo.

I am looking specifically to get the Address [URL] of web-page photo
graphics (jpeg, gif etc) that the mouse is currently hovered over.

WinGet, clipboard, ControlList, Properties
yields this when the IE6 Properties box is popped up.

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Button1
Button2
Button3
Button4
SysTabControl321

Of course it would be even better if the Properties box popping
up could be avoided altogether, but I still want to know how to
get values from them.

The solution must work with all versions of Internet Explorer.

Thanks

[engunneer]

if you could use firefox, there is a context menu for each picture that is "Copy image location"

I don't know if there is a direct way to get the information without parsing the web page directly.
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[Visioneer]

The solution must work with all versions of Internet Explorer.

Sorry if I did not make that clear.

I figure that if Fire Fox could know, maybe COM, dll, sendmessage etc
could too. I need to get the URL into an ahk var.
Thanks

[engunneer]

search for posts by tank. he has some good scripts that can get info from IE7. many probably work with 6.
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[Visioneer]

Thanks Tank,

That is a ingenious idea. I played with it for a few hours and also used
onmousemove, because so many pictures are actually links, so
onmousedown is not "clean hover" that I hoped for. I also see that we
can run the Inject a second time to get the var to ahk. (Maybe even a
third time to delete the page's var/function, or at least set
onmouse... = null after 1 run in first Inject.)

However, it seems to not work in frames. Take a look at Google Image
for example. When you click an image to view larger, it is in a frame and
the concept does nothing as far as I can tell.

So I still want to get a solution to read/get info from a Properties popup
window. This has other uses too, like getting filename, protocol,
type,address [URL], byte size, demensions, created and modified dates,
and probably other info for other Property windows.


I use, (in IE6, would that work in IE7 too?)
SendEvent {Click right}
sleep, 200
sendPlay, r
to get the Properties window to popup. I would like to hide or move it as
soon as possible, and read info from it somehow. Please see the controls
list in my top post. I tried ControlGetText on all those controls, but I get
nothing.

THIS WORKS IN FRAMES. I know that sometimes the Right click can be
disabled, so maybe your concept could be used in conjuction with a
Properties approach.


Thanks

[tank]

ill solution this later today or tomorrow there havebeen alot of rame requests lately
note ahk has no native means of interacting with web pages except by using image search which requires you to already know the image your looking for
and all of my solutions rewuire the same security requirements implemented in dom standard. most importantly
both frames will be required to have same domain portion of the url
for events you can use onmouseover onmousemove onload etc
any event that can be applied to an image accordign to w3c standards can be used i just used on mousedown for the example

[Visioneer]

Thanks Tank,

I'll be looking for it.
My app simply has the user move their mouse over an image, and press a
button.

[Visioneer]

Hey Tank,

Any luck or leads on reading Properties boxes ?

[tank]

Sunday i plan on posting something of a web event and propertes recorder
the gist will go soemthing like this
user will click a browser
from that moment the tool will trap events and any html atributes that can be derived such as events ids and index values as well as the event itself mouseover click etc
it will be the precurser tool to a true web macro recorder which will attempt to actually write with com functions or com wrapped functions an ahk script torun or alter much the way script writer works now

I am hopeful i will have it ready by then be patient guys it will come and it will be much more object driven than any of my scripts have been to date
and better documented
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