[SOLVED] - Help with Popup window on a IE automation

[LearnbeforeyouBurn]

Hello Everyone. New member and a AutoIT beginner here. I have searched through the forums and I could not get answer to my specific problem so here it is.

I have managed to learn and implement a IE automation project. I have managed to achieve 90% of the tasks, however I'm getting stuck on a popup which I've to manually click everytime.

Here is the part of the website code that is causing the popup:

<a onclick="if(confirm('Have you saved all the members and relationships for the household?If not please go back and save them first and then add tax info.')) canNotAddTax('0');" href="#">                                                
                                                  <b>Tax Info</b> <i class="fa fa-trash-o fa-lg"></i>
                                                </a>

the info for the 'OK' button that I'm trying to click is

expandcollapse popup

>>>> Window <<<<
Title:  Message from webpage
Class:  #32770
Position:   560, 373
Size:   496, 171
Style:  0x94C801C5
ExStyle:    0x00010101
Handle: 0x0000000000290D32

>>>> Control <<<<
Class:  Button
Instance:   1
ClassnameNN:    Button1
Name:   
Advanced (Class):   [CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:1]
ID: 1
Text:   OK
Position:   285, 96
Size:   88, 26
ControlClick Coords:    29, 12
Style:  0x50030000
ExStyle:    0x00000004
Handle: 0x00000000005A046A

>>>> Mouse <<<<
Position:   882, 511
Cursor ID:  0
Color:  0xDDDDDD

>>>> StatusBar <<<<

>>>> ToolsBar <<<<

>>>> Visible Text <<<<
OK
Cancel
Have you saved all the members and relationships for the household?If not please go back and save them first and then add tax info.


>>>> Hidden Text <<<<

and here is my code that has changed a 100 times just trying to get this to work:

$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($oMIE)
    For $oLink In $oLinks
        If $oLink.innertext = "Tax Info  " Then
            Local $oTaxInfo = $oLink
            ;MsgBox(0,"","GOT Link")
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    Next
;MsgBox(0,"","Came out of loop")
;WinActivate("[CLASS:#32770]")
;ControlClick ("[CLASS:#32770]", "OK", 1, "left", 2)
_IEAction($oTaxInfo, "focus")
;MsgBox(0,"","focussed tax info link")
_IEAction($oTaxInfo, "click")
;Sleep(5000)
;MsgBox(0,"","Sent click on the link")
;$test1= WinWaitActive("[CLASS:#32770]", "Have you saved all the members and relationships for the household?If not please go back and save them first and then add tax info.")
;MsgBox(0,"",$test1)

ControlClick ("[CLASS:#32770]", "OK", 1, "left", 2)
;ControlSend("Message from webpage","OK",1,"{ENTER}")
;Send("{ENTER}")
;MsgBox(0,"","clicked ok")

;Send("{ENTER}")
;if WinExists("[CLASS:#32770]") Then
;   WinClose("[CLASS:#32770]")
;EndIf
Sleep(1000)
;WinActivate("[CLASS:#32770]")
;ControlClick ("[CLASS:#32770]", "OK", 1, "left", 2)

No matter what I try, the script wont click 'OK' on the popup window. However, if I manually click the  'OK' button and then send("{ENTER}") while the link is still under focus, the popup comes up again and this time the script does click the 'OK' button. Who is this happening and if some expert can help me to get through this obstacle, I would greatly appreciate it.

P.S. : This is my first post, so if I was too vague or gave too much unnecessary detail, please feel free to correct me and if further information is requires, please let me know.

Thank You

Edited October 19, 2018 by LearnbeforeyouBurn

[mLipok]

take a look here:

 

[Danp2]

Have you tried something like this instead of actually clicking the link?

_IENavigate ($oIE, "javascript:canNotAddTax('0');")

 

[LearnbeforeyouBurn]

Thank you very much. That fixed it but I'm still socked by this weird behavior of JavaScript popups. I am also surprised that I didn't find that topic on my initial searches in the past 2 days.

Quick question based on this solution

I understand that we are executing a command line on a second instance. does that background instance keep running or it ends once the click is executed?

The reason I'm asking is because my for loop is probably going to repeat the same task about 45,000 times and the script is going to click that JavaScript dialogue every single time. It would be a problem/bad memory management if  a new background instance is created 45,000 times and all are still active in the memory doing the same thing.

[LearnbeforeyouBurn]

@Danp2 No I didn't try that solution but @mLipok's solution in the linked topic worked for me. But I would be interested to try your method too. I'm still learning and the only way I'm going to keep learning is try every possible method and keep exploring.

[caramen]

Java pop up inside IE windows ? Or outside ?

Asking becose i can see that :

;ControlClick ("[CLASS:#32770]", "OK", 1, "left", 2)

If you can try :

ControlClick ( "Window Title" , "" , "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:1]" , "left" , 1 )

Ofc change window title by the title of that pop up.

Never played with java window so may i am wrong?

You can even mix with WinExists Or/And Winwait

$MyWindow = WinWait ("My Window")

If WinExists ($MyWindow) Then 
    ControlClick ( $MyWindow , "" , "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:1]" , "left" , 1 )
EndIf

 

Edited October 17, 2018 by caramen

[Danp2]

@caramen You should read the link posted by @mLipok. The Autoit command that triggers the popup doesn't finish executing until the popup is gone, so your ControlClick won't work if it's in the same script.

[caramen]

Oh yeah. Ok i as afraid of that.

 

[junkew]

45k clicks then i doubt if you have a proper solution for your problem

[LearnbeforeyouBurn]

@junkew the 45k clicks is not happening at a time. Basically, I have a txt file of 45k records. Each record needs to be entered in a form to generate a PDF file. I save that PDF file and then close IE window after each record. The click on the JavaScript popup happens only once in that cycle. I rinse and repeat that closing and reopening the form 45k times. So technically yes, it is 45k clicks on that popup but each in a new instance.

My concern is that the second instance of _ExecuteinBackground() does it stay in the memory after it has executed the click or does it end. If it ends, than it is all well and good but if it stays in the memory then it would create 45k instances in the memory which would be really stupid on my part. If that's the case, I'm better off placing the _ExecuteinBackground() outside the loop.

I hope I was clear in my explanation.

Thanks to everyone trying to help me understand the process better.

[mLipok]

Just create one separate Au3 script , and run them as a separate process which will be runing all the time, and use IPC to comunicate with them.

 

[LearnbeforeyouBurn]

pardon my ignorance/noobism

What is IPC and if you could kindly guide me on how to implement it, I would be very grateful. Thanks again

[mLipok]

https://docs.microsoft.com/pl-pl/windows/desktop/ipc/interprocess-communications

http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/using-named-pipes-to-connect-a-gui-to-a/231903148

IPC UDF via FileMapping

IPC IO

Pool - Post Office for Organised Labour

IPC with DLLStructure

IPC by pboom

InterProcess UDF - Runs a remote function!

IPC via stdinwrite() and consoleread()

Another Inter Script communication

Container UDF - Scripts interaction library

MailSlot

 

EDIT: 
Do not think I'm so fast ... I've been preparing this list for the last hour.
I just had other tasks and I did not have time to press "Submit Reply"

 

Edited October 18, 2018 by mLipok

[LearnbeforeyouBurn]

Special thanks to @mLipok and also thanks everyone else for helping me through this process. Mods can mark this topic solved. Thank you

[FrancescoDiMuro]

15 hours ago, LearnbeforeyouBurn said:

Mods can mark this topic solved.

You can do it yourself
Edit your first post of this thread adding the text "Solved - Title of the thread"

[LearnbeforeyouBurn]

Thank You. Will do.

[nooneclose]

you could have at least given us the final code in case others like myself also have this issue. A hint at least would have been good. I do not have a clue what you did to make it work and most likely I will have to create my own thread to get it solved. 

Edited November 7, 2018 by nooneclose

[Danp2]

@nooneclose Did you bother reading the thread referenced by @mLipok?

P.S. What some cheese to go with that whine?

[JLogan3o13]

To the person who reported this thread as ""unnecessary, unhelpful, unprofessional and childish", I would say your comment falls into that exact same category. You could have simply asked the OP to post their code, rather than mewling about how inconvenienced you are because they did not.