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Accessing New IE Window

Keywords:

Access Current New Get Instance IE Window Shell.Application Internet Explorer innerHTML

Question:

If I opened a website. Clicked on a link and it opened a new window. The new window contains frames, how do I access frames from this new page?

Answer:

Accessing the IE window launched by user:

So, you want to access a pre-existing instance of the internet explorer. Code like this will allow you to get the document handle for the open session

It uses the Shell Windows Object to obtain a list of instances.

Once it finds all the iExplore, it'll loop thru the collection. You'll have to inspect each one's .locationURL property to see which URL it's at. Then once you have the correct instance of Explorer, you can proceed from there. 

objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objInstances = objShell.windows
objIE = 0
If objInstances.Count > 0 ; make sure we have instances open.
    ForEach objIE In objInstances
       sName = StrLower(objIE.FullName)
       If StrIndex( sName, 'iexplore.exe', 1, @FWDSCAN ) != 0 ; internet explorer not windows explorer.
        ret = AskYesNo( "Found instance of Internet Explorer ":objIE.LocationURL, "Would you like to view html?" )
        If ret
           objInstances = 0
           objShell = 0
           Break
        EndIf
      EndIf
    Next
EndIf
If objIE == 0
   Pause('Notice', 'Unable to locate any running instances of InternetExplorer')
EndIf

objDoc = objIE.Document
objMainhtml = objDoc.GetElementsbyTagname("HTML").item(0)
Pause('Webpage data', objMainhtml.innerhtml)
objMainhtml = 0
objDoc = 0
objIE = 0
Accessing the frames:

Once you retrieve the document object of the new window then use the frames Collection to get information about the frames.

In looking at the MSIE object documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/webbrowser/reference/objects/InternetExplorer.asp?frame=true it seems to indicate the document property can be used to access to the contents of the HTML Document Object Model (DOM) of the active document(HTML page).

OLD WAY ( Only works up to Windows XP)

It sets up a registry entry in your PC so that you can attach to Windows Explorer windows (MSIE = Windows Explorer for the most part)

Once it finds all the Explorers, it'll loop thru the collection. You'll have to inspect each one's .locationURL property to see which URL it's at. Then once you have the correct instance of Explorer, you can proceed from there. 

;Check to see if ClassID installed
myShellWindowsClsid="{9BA05972-F6A8-11CF-A442-00A0C90A8F39}" ;ShellWindows
myShellWindowsKey="AAA.TEST\CLSID"
If RegExistValue(@REGCLASSES,myShellWindowsKey) == @FALSE
   RegSetValue(@REGCLASSES,myShellWindowsKey,myShellWindowsClsid)
   If RegExistValue(@REGCLASSES,myShellWindowsKey) == @FALSE
      Message("CLSID Not installed.","Need Admin access")
      Exit
   EndIf
EndIf
<p>
SWs=ObjectAccess("AAA.TEST",1)
count=Sws.count
Message("Count",count)
<p>
For xx=0 To count-1
   windowobject=Sws.Item(xx)
   lu = windowobject.LocationURL
   Message("Debug", windowobject.HWND)
;   If StrIndexNC(lu, "file://", 1, @FWDSCAN) != 0 ;this would be a IE window
      Message("Found IE Window",lu)
      Message("Debug", StrCat(windowobject.name, @CRLF, windowobject.fullname))  ; <----- this seems to be more clear
      doc = windowobject.document
;   EndIf
Next

Article ID:   W16628

File Created: 2011:07:15:09:14:12
Last Updated: 2011:07:15:09:14:12