Frames and COM Topic is solved

[Crashm87]

Morning everyone.

I'm having trouble understanding how to access frames in IE using COM.

Was wondering if someone can spell this out for me.
I need access this input, <INPUT>[27]. see Screenshot


This is giving me an error. myFrame := wb.document.parentWindow.frames[1].document when it tried to actually push my variable into the input.

Spoiler

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Warranty Claims_V1.ahk
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Error: 0x80020006 - Unknown name.

Specifically: 27

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250: }
252: {
253: inputro := ronumber
254: StringTrimLeft,outputro,inputro,1
255: ronumber := claimletter . outputro
257: wb := IEGet()
258: Gosub,getframe
---> 259: myFrame.querySelectorAll("input")[27].value := ronumber
260: Return
261: }
264: {
265: MsgBox,4,,RO is not open in PBS, would you like to open it now?
266: IfMsgBox,Yes
267: {
268: InputBox,newro,RO Number,Enter RO number

Continue running the script?
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Yes No
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Thanks in advance

[enter8]

In my experience working with dom elements, if I'm having trouble getting an element, I typically try moving up in the hierarchy and seeing if I can get a parent (or a parent's parent).

What does this give you?

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myFrame := document.parentWindow.frames[1].document.body.innerHTML
msgbox % myFrame

Based on testing that I've done, this may/may not include the element you're looking for, but it will tell you if you're targeting the frame properly (by producing something), and, if you are, that will tell you that you that it may not be a frame issue, but, rather, it may relate to the input component of your javascript.

This targets the entire frame. If you can find something in the hierarchy between the whole frame and your target element, try getting that also.

[Crashm87]

Thank you. That pointed me EXACTLY where I needed to go. I was able to figure out what the problem is from your post, and not sure if there is way to 'work around' this or not.

What's happening is, the frame count changes depending on how my browser reaches the screen. If it is the first time I go to the screen in the mornings, I get:


If i submit a claim, it takes me back to the same screen, but the frame is:

So it takes away one from for some reason after it reloads the page

Is there a way to tell how many frames are present, and select it depending if there is one of two??

[enter8]

There may be a better way, but you can get the number of frames with

document.parentWindow.frames.length

[Crashm87]

There may be a better way, but you can get the number of frames with

document.parentWindow.frames.length

Thank you, that helps alot.

Maybe I'll implement an IF statement and store number of frames in a variable.

[enter8]

How about:

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framecount := document.parentWindow.frames.length
framecount -= 1 ; subtract 1 to get the right number of the array
myFrame := wb.document.parentWindow.frames[framecount].document.body.innerHTML
msgbox % myFrame

This will always target the last frame on the page. That's assuming, of course, your target frame is always last. If it isn't, you can turn off errors, and do queries on each frame until you find the one that has the information you want.

[Crashm87]

How about:

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framecount := document.parentWindow.frames.length
framecount -= 1 ; subtract 1 to get the right number of the array
myFrame := wb.document.parentWindow.frames[framecount].document.body.innerHTML
msgbox % myFrame

This will always target the last frame on the page. That's assuming, of course, your target frame is always last. If it isn't, you can turn off errors, and do queries on each frame until you find the one that has the information you want.

FANTASTIC! Thank you so much, that's a better idea than if statements.

What a great community.