IEAction Click doesn't fire off javascript "mousedown"

[joe1981al]

Anybody know a workaround to get a script to fire the "mousedown" event?

I'm even up for using mouseclick if there is a way to detect screen location of the link.

I've tried a few things but no success, the javascript on a page i'm trying to automate uses a mousedown event to pull data and load a frame using some system IE variables associated with the a href link clicked, then uses a onclick to cancel the navigation to the a href. I've tried to throw together some navigate(javascript:action) stuff but doesn't work because the variables are not in memory that it needs to fire off the event.

[Bert]

can you read the HTML first to get the location? Also, is the page you are working with, is it publicly accessible so we can take a look at the code?

[DaleHohm]

It turns out that the actual event sequesnce of a mouse click is onmousedown, onmouseup, click. I was unaware of this when I wrote the _IEAction function. You can create the full sequence with:

$oElement.fireEvent("onmousedown")

$oElement.fireEvent("onmouseup")

_IEAction($oElement, "click")

Dale

[joe1981al]

It turns out that the actual event sequesnce of a mouse click is onmousedown, onmouseup, click. I was unaware of this when I wrote the _IEAction function. You can create the full sequence with:

$oElement.fireEvent("onmousedown")

$oElement.fireEvent("onmouseup")

_IEAction($oElement, "click")

Dale

Dale:

Thanks Dale will give this a try. I've spent 3 days dealing with this site trying to automate a single file download, and got stuck because of the way someone wrote the site. Wouldn't be a bad idea to add a "fullclick" process to _IEAction that does the above.

Volly:

It requires login, but the details I see: They use a very large main javascript thats been minified, that stores a lot of functions while it loads a small file that monitors the individual page and waits for actions. I'm not sure how IE works, but I assume on "mousedown" IE creates variables for navigating to a link then acts upon those variables when it sees "click". The sites javascript fires an action on "mousedown" that loads ALOT of variables in two collections, one containing system variables, one dumping ie variables, in particular uses "t.id" to figure out the URL of the <a href> tag and execute code based upon its content to load a secondary frame with a javascript panel. Then fires on "click" and cancels IEs native link handling.

[joe1981al]

It turns out that the actual event sequesnce of a mouse click is onmousedown, onmouseup, click. I was unaware of this when I wrote the _IEAction function. You can create the full sequence with:

$oElement.fireEvent("onmousedown")

$oElement.fireEvent("onmouseup")

_IEAction($oElement, "click")

Dale

Dale:

Thanks Dale will give this a try. I've spent 3 days dealing with this site trying to automate a single file download, and got stuck because of the way someone wrote the site. Wouldn't be a bad idea to add a "fullclick" process to _IEAction that does the above.

Volly:

It requires login, but the details I see: They use a very large main javascript thats been minified, that stores a lot of functions while it loads a small file that monitors the individual page and waits for actions. I'm not sure how IE works, but I assume on "mousedown" IE creates variables for navigating to a link then acts upon those variables when it sees "click". The sites javascript fires an action on "mousedown" that loads ALOT of variables in two collections, one containing system variables, one dumping ie variables, in particular uses "t.id" to figure out the URL of the <a href> tag and execute code based upon its content to load a secondary frame with a javascript panel. Then fires on "click" and cancels IEs native link handling.

[joe1981al]

It works and interacts perfectly with the javascript, and also had to look up your IEEVal() function from another thread that works great.

Something to maybe add to the IEAction is "fullclick" or even replace click with all three actions, I add function to my script to do fullclick action every time just in case some javascript is watching it.

Func _IEMyFullClick($oElement)
    ;Function to perform full click
    $oElement.fireEvent("onmousedown")
    $oElement.fireEvent("onmouseup")
    _IEAction($oElement, "click")
EndFunc

[phamdacloc]

Hi Dale-

Just to re-confirm, does the "onmouseup" event occur BEFORE the click action or AFTER the click action like the below?

$oElement.fireEvent("onmousedown")

_IEAction($oElement, "click")

$oElement.fireEvent("onmouseup")

Thanks

[DaleHohm]

The order is as I documented above.

[tac7]

Hi All,

I've just sign in only to remerciate you about this code 8 years later !!!!

I had the same problem with a link where the "onclick" is desactevated (onclick="return false;")  :-(

and whith your code is perfectly..

 

Tanks a lot

 

On 22/07/2010 at 5:21 PM, joe1981al said:

It works and interacts perfectly with the javascript, and also had to look up your IEEVal() function from another thread that works great.

 

Something to maybe add to the IEAction is "fullclick" or even replace click with all three actions, I add function to my script to do fullclick action every time just in case some javascript is watching it.

 

 

Func _IEMyFullClick($oElement)
    ;Function to perform full click
    $oElement.fireEvent("onmousedown")
    $oElement.fireEvent("onmouseup")
    _IEAction($oElement, "click")
EndFunc

 

[JEGAN]

 

Hi all i too have a mouse down case as shown below, Help out to perform click operation on highlighted object in html tree

#include <IE.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

Local $oIE = _IECreate("http://pass-ssi-a350.eu.airbus.corp:8020/D850/app/", 1)
_IELoadWait($oIE)

Local $oSearch, $oSubmit
Local $sSearch = InputBox("DS no to search","enter DS no","")

$oSearch= _IEGetObjByName($oIE,"gloabalSearchField")
$oSubmit=_IEGetObjById($oIE,"ext-gen29")
$oSearch.value = $sSearch

_IEAction($oSubmit, "click")
_IELoadWait($oIE)
Sleep(3000)
_IELinkClickByText($oIE,$sSearch)
Sleep(3000)

$odiv=_IEGetObjById($oIE,"infoPagemainInfoPagePanel")
$oform=_IEFormGetObjByName($odiv,"mainform")
$odiv1=_IEGetObjById($oform,"infoPageinfoPanelID")
$odiv2=_IEGetObjById($odiv1,"infoPageinfoPanelID__infoPage_myTab_object_partContentTab")

$odiv2.fireEvent("onmousedown")
_IEAction($odiv2, "click")

html tree in website is 

Java click even code is

task;fn=fn||o.fn;scope=scope||o.scope;if(!el)throw'Error listening for "'+ename+'". Element "'+element+"\" doesn't exist.";function h(e){if(!Ext)return;e=Ext.EventObject.setEvent(e);var t;if(o.delegate){if(!(t=e.getTarget(o.delegate,el)))return}else t=e.target;if(o.stopEvent)e.stopEvent();if(o.preventDefault)e.preventDefault();if(o.stopPropagation)e.stopPropagation();if(o.normalized)e=e.browserEvent;fn.call(scope||el,e,t,o)}if(o.target)h=createTargeted(h,o);if(o.delay)h=createDelayed(h,o,fn);if(o.single)h=