Bug in IE.au3 or in IE ?

[DougShields]

Some of my users are having trouble that I confirmed happens "just for them".  Specifically _IEFormElementRadioSelect returns $_IESTATUS_NoMatch for a radio button that clearly exists in the page.  For me using WinXP / IE8 or Win8.1 / IE11 I see few if any symptoms, but when I put together a test on their Win 7 / IE8 platform sure enough it breaks.  The unit test is just a bit of code that changes a radio box value, which triggers a postback, waits for the postback to complete, and repeats with a new value, triggering another postback, repeat 1000 times and call it success.  After some debugging I determined that _IEFormElementGetObjByName was finding the radio button, but _IEFormElementRadioSelect was not, which lead to this bit of code from IE.au3:

Local $oItems = Execute("$oObject.elements('" & $sName & "')")

Which looks valid and works some (maybe even most) of the time on Win 7 / IE 8.  So I modified it to use the similar construct from _IE_FormElementGetObjByName to be:

Local $oItems = $oObject.elements.item($sName)

Which works 100% for me.  So the question now becomes, is this a beta issue, an IE.au3 issue, or an IE issue?  The only real difference is where I place my code to workaround cases where Win 7 / IE8 / _IEFormElementRadioSelect don't do what was expected.

[Sindaugh]

Hello,

I do have the above problem of getting a error:7 extended:3, but the fix does not work. When I replace as instructed to this:

$sName = String($sName)

;Local $oItems = Execute("$oObject.elements('" & $sName & "')")
Local $oItems = $oObject.elements.item($sName)

If Not IsObj($oItems) Then
__IEConsoleWriteError("Warning", "_IEFormElementRadioSelect", "$_IESTATUS_NoMatch")
Return SetError($_IESTATUS_NoMatch, 3, 0)
EndIf

my script starts running, but fails at the line

Local $oItems = $oObject.elements.item($sName)

with the following error:

 

Funnily enough, when I access form elements directly from my script as

$oElements = $thisForm.elements.item("removeBsKey")

it works. I am really stuck.

On a side note - it worked fine in August '15 with a very old version, but I do not know what my IT did to my machine to change the behaviour.

 

Thanks a lot.

Steven

[mLipok]

Are you using COM Error Handler ?
If no then please look here:  How to use IE.au3  UDF with  AutoIt v3.3.14.x  

 

As a quick (note tested) work around try to use this:

$oElements_coll = $thisForm.elements
if Not @error Then
    $oElements_coll.item("removeBsKey")
EndIf

 

EDIT: which AutoIt version you are using ?

Edited February 11, 2016 by mLipok

[Sindaugh]

Version should be the latest as I re-downloaded today. I am not sure how to determine the version as I did not install, but use the "just run it" version.

I now set the error handler as described. The error in IE.au3 for .elements is gone, but now i am getting the NoMatch again. So it may be my fault (again).

 

Script Code:

;I already started with an IE instance in $oIE and did some stuff to it that worked, so the instance is fine
$thisForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "assignmentForm")

; $thisForm is also working or I would be getting an error 1 from IE.au3
_IEFormElementRadioSelect($thisForm, 1137, "removeBsKey")

Still I get @error: 7, @extended: 3

HTML:

expandcollapse popup

<form name="assignmentForm" method="post" action="/spin/assignmentRemove.do"><input type="hidden" name="org.apache.struts.taglib.html.TOKEN" value="d51da33b-b170-4d15-9511-0fd49da5af02">
    <input type="hidden" name="submitCommand" value="">
    <input type="hidden" name="primaryKey" value="OBFUSCATED">

    <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
        <tr>
            <td class="ctPageTitle">BS to remove</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
        <tr>
            <td class="ctEntryText">&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
        <tr>
            <td width="100%" valign="top">
    <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%" class="ctTabStripLine">
      <tr>
                      <td align="right" width="24"><img src="/spin/images/TabStripLeftOff.gif"  width="24" height="19" alt=""></td>
                      <td nowrap height="19" class="ctTabStripTextOffDisabled">
                        Details
                      </td>
                      <td align="right" width="24"><img src="/spin/images/TabStripOffOff.gif"  width="24" height="19" alt=""></td>
                      <td nowrap height="19" class="ctTabStripTextOffDisabled">
                        Admin Data
                      </td>
                      <td align="right" width="24"><img src="/spin/images/TabStripOffOff.gif"  width="24" height="19" alt=""></td>
                      <td nowrap height="19" class="ctTabStripTextOffDisabled">
                        Structure
                      </td>
                          <td align="right" width="24"><img src="/spin/images/TabStripOffOn.gif"  width="24" height="19" alt=""></td>
                <td nowrap height="19" class="ctTabStripTextOn">
                      Business Services
                </td>
                      <td align="right" width="24"><img src="/spin/images/TabStripRightOn.gif"  width="24" height="19" alt=""></td>
                <td width="100%"><img src="/spin/images/blank.gif" width="1" height="1" alt=""></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
        <tr>
            <td class="ctTblDark">7 Business Services are available</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
        <tr>
            <td class="ctTblMediumBold">&nbsp;</td>
            <td class="ctTblMediumBold">Display Name</td>
                <td class="ctTblMediumBold">Technical Name</td>
                <td class="ctTblMediumBold">Assignment for</td>
                <td class="ctTblMediumBold">Assigned To</td>
            <td class="ctTblMediumBold">Description</td>
                <td class="ctTblMediumBold">UM GroupName</td>
        </tr>
            <td class="ctTblWhite" valign="top"><input type="radio" name="removeBsKey" value="1137" checked="checked"></td>
            <td class="ctTblWhite" valign="top">AirSupply_CG</td>
                <td class="ctTblWhite" valign="top">AS_CG</td>
                <td class="ctTblWhite" valign="top">
                Buyer<br>
                Seller
                </td>
                <td class="ctTblWhite" valign="top">
                CG<br>
                </td>
            <td class="ctTblWhite" valign="top">Used for Corporate Group Name display in AS Application only - no further functionalities</td>
                <td class="ctTblWhite" valign="top"></td>
            </tr>
            <td class="ctTblLight" valign="top"><input type="radio" name="removeBsKey" value="1078"></td>
            <td class="ctTblLight" valign="top">CMS_Sync</td>
                <td class="ctTblLight" valign="top">CMS_Sync</td>
                <td class="ctTblLight" valign="top">
                Buyer<br>
                Seller
                </td>
                <td class="ctTblLight" valign="top">
                LE
                </td>
            <td class="ctTblLight" valign="top"></td>
                <td class="ctTblLight" valign="top"></td>
[...]

The page starts earlier and goes on with more radio options in the group, but I think you will get the idea. I know that in this example the radio I want to check is already preselected. Nevertheless this may not be the case and I want to make 100% it is selected.

 

Thanks a lot!

[Sindaugh]

Oh my god... I am soooo silly.

I forgot the _IELoadWait($oIE) after I clicked a button. Now it is working.

Sorry for the trouble.

 

Thanks for all the help

[mLipok]

You're welcome.