Preston Ladder

Dale, Sorry for a late reply - I managed to read your PM just now. The website I'm automating is on an intranet - however a simple web page with a set of frames pointing out to different third-level domains should reproduce this problem. As for my solution - instead of retrieving elements of the frame (form, textarea etc), I'm using the current instance of IE to actually 'navigate' to the frame source and then retrieving pointers to the objects (not a great solution but it seems to work). I'd like to thank you Dale for your timely efforts and suggestions and also Dave for the security suggestion and sorry again for the delayed response. (if someone does reproduce this problem and gets a different result than mine - it would be nice to put it in this thread) All the best for now, Preston.

Dave, The frame is being accessed from the same domain (i.e. the main page is say at http://www.microsoft.com and the frame source is at http://data.microsoft.com). From reading around I figured this shouldn't pose a security problem. I also checked to make sure that one of them is not HTTP and other HTTPS - but this wasn't the case - both the webpage and the frame are sent over HTTP. Dale, This problem is just tormenting. I have tried your suggestion and unfortunately the same problem happens I'm wondering if the msdn is the best place to find the properties of the objects? I had a look at the site and I can see the contentwindow. But when I try to read this property e.g. $o_frame.contentWindow It fails misreably - eventhough it passed the IsObj() check. How can this be - it just doesn't make any sense! I'm wondering if anyone has managed to read a form elements within a frame? edit: url edit

Thanks. I have looked through the DOM Inspector and it shows that the frame i'm trying to access is an iframe with the following (removed url) attributes: * width : 525 * scrolling : auto * height : 1000 * frameborder : 0 * class : iframenoborder * name : grouptext * style : float: left; width: 371px; z-index: 1; parent structure * html * body class="personal" * div id="frame" * div id="container" * div id="middle" * div id="rightcol" * div id="contentframe" * div id="content" So when I try to get a reference to the framw through the following $o_frame = _IEFrameGetObjByName($oIE, "grouptext") If Not IsObj($o_frame) Then MsgBox(0, "Error", "No Frame ref") Else Msgbox(0,"Error","Success") EndIf works great - no errors (I also check the @error) but when I call the Form function it fails $o_form = _IEFormGetObjByName($o_frame, "sendForm") It also throws an error on $o_frame.document (I tried this out of curiosity) Does it make any difference since it is an iframe (rather than frame) and within all those div? (Sorry if this is a naive question - my background is C++ and I know little about web technologies)

Thanks for the quick reply. It is quite strange since none fail IsObj or @error. The problem seems to be occurring within the IE.au3 script. I have a feeling _IEFormGetObjByName() function does not accept an object of type frame? Is this correct?

Hi Dale, Saying IE.au3 is a great script is really an underestimation - but it seems my understanding is limited, since I can't figure out how to get the form elements within a frame? For example the following code is giving me an error (on the second line) $o_frame = _IEFrameGetObjByIndex($oIE, 0) $o_form = _IEFormGetObjByName($o_frame, "sendForm") $o_text = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($o_form, "Msg") Any suggestions?