Script freezes on IE input file popup using COM Object

[bodosko]

Hello guys.
I'm using COM to fill some fields on a webpage but I encounter a problem while trying to fill an input file dialog.
After the script clicks the "choose file" button and the Choose file window opens, it completely freezes and will only unfreeze if I manually close the window.

Here is an example script to reproduce the problem:

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	ie	:= ComObjCreate( "InternetExplorer.Application" )
	ie.Navigate("https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html")	;Just example webpage with input file
	ie.Visible := True

	While ( ie.Busy || ie.ReadyState != 4 )	; Waits for the webpage to finish loading
	Sleep 10

	ie.document.getElementsByName("datafile")[0].click()
	Sleep 1000 												; wait window open
	Send "file1.txt" "file2.txt"
	Send {ENTER}

[Blackholyman]

yes the COM object becomes owned by the Ahk script any msgbox that the IE process makes holds the script just as a normal msgbox that ahk makes it self

[bodosko]

Is there any way of doing what I want without having to use two scripts?

[bodosko]

I managed to make this work using ie.navigate instead of directly calling ie.document.

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ie.Navigate("javascript: document.getElementsById(""id"").click()")

Apparently this way the script won't freeze waiting for a return.