Issue with the "IE.au3" UDF with IE version 11.1418.15063.0

[MilenP]

Hello Autoit gurus,

 

Today I noticed the following issue when using the IE.au3 UDF with IE version 11.1418.15063.0.

Part of my function is:

 

Func SignIn()
    ;Call the SignIn function if there is entered Username/Password in the GUI Form
    $g_sLoginIE = _IECreate("https://my.emerchantpay.com/", 0, 1)

    _IELoadWait($g_sLoginIE)

    Sleep(500)

    Local $oUsername = _IEGetObjByName($g_sLoginIE, "username")
    Local $oPassword = _IEGetObjByName($g_sLoginIE, "password")
    Local $oButton = _IEGetObjById($g_sLoginIE, "login_button")
    _IEFormElementSetValue($oUsername, $g_sUsernameInput)
    _IEFormElementSetValue($oPassword, $g_sPasswordInput)
    Sleep(500)

    _IEAction($oButton, "click")
    _IELoadWait($g_sLoginIE)
    Sleep(1000)

 

When the page is opened and try to get the _IEGetObjByName the script is failing with;

--> IE.au3 T3.0-2 Error from function _IELoadWait, $_IESTATUS_ClientDisconnected (-2147417848, Browser has been deleted prior to operation.)
--> IE.au3 T3.0-2 Error from function _IELoadWait, $_IESTATUS_InvalidObjectType ()
"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include\IE.au3" (1876) : ==> The requested action with this object has failed.:
If IsObj($oObject.document.GetElementsByName($sName).item($iIndex)) Then
If IsObj($oObject^ ERROR

You can see that there is also errors regarding the IELoadWait.

 

I have some automations, that are working on older versions of IE, but on the one I am with now they are not working.

 

Can you guys check and advise how I can resolve this. Also as far as I am aware, the IE will be out of support soon, can you please suggest how to proceed when I want to make some browser automations ?

 

Just to add, my Scite version is also updated to the latest, 4.1.2 

 

Thank you in advance!

Edited January 19, 2019 by MilenP

[Subz]

_IELoadWait isn't actually very reliable imho, I usually add a Sleep(3000)  or longer in place of _IELoadWait.

Edited January 19, 2019 by Subz

[MilenP]

Hello @Subz,

 

I am also using Sleep(xxx) in addition of the _IELoadWait, but the main issue is the other one  (The first reported).

 

Thank you,

 

[Danp2]

Have you tried capturing the IE object variable after the initial _IENavigate?

_IECreate("https://my.emerchantpay.com/", 0, 1)
$g_sLoginIE = _IEAttach("my.emerchantpay.com", "url")

 

[MilenP]

Hi @Danp2,

 

Thank you for this suggestion. When adding the

$g_sLoginIE = _IEAttach("my.emerchantpay.com", "url")

it works.. but before, it was working even without _IEAttach after _IECreate or _IENavigate. Is this because of the new IE version or it was always good practice to use _IEAttach as well ?

 

[MilenP]

Hello again,

I have also noticed, that the IE wondows are not hidden, as before

$g_oTransactionIE = _IECreate("https://my.emerchantpay.com/transaction/details/index/transid/" & $g_sTransactionInput, 0, 0)

 

I also have the following error message, which is also breaking my script :

--> IE.au3 T3.0-2 Error from function _IEDocReadHTML, $_IESTATUS_InvalidDataType

If someone have any idea... I don't like IE, but it was working very good until the update

Edited January 19, 2019 by MilenP

[Danp2]

The OS update probably resolved a security issue, but that also yielded the results you are seeing.

[MilenP]

@Danp2,

 

What would you suggest in this case ? 
Do you think there will be an update of the IE.au3 or can I use another UDF that will do the job, as currently it seems it is heavily broken
 

[Danp2]

I wouldn't expect an update to the UDF, primarily because IMO it's your OS that's broken, not the UDF.

Alternative would be to switch to the Webdriver UDF (see my sig)

[MilenP]

Hi @Danp2,

 

I would like to learn how the Webdriver UDF works, but can you please provide me with some examples, as I didn't find.

 

Also I have one question, about clicking a DropDown menu with javascript:void(0),which looks like:

I tried using _IELinkClickByText, _IELinkClickByText, _IETagNameGetCollection and _IEGetObjById  with _IEAction($xxx, 'Focus') and 
_IEAction($xxx, 'Click')

Can someone please also give me an example how to interact with this dropdown button

Thank you guys,

Milen

[Danp2]

Hi @MilenP,

Did you take a look at wd_demo.au3? There are also other examples posted on the forum.

On the Dropdown issue, hard to say without more context. Can you provide a link to the site (or a suitable example that we can review if the site isn't publicly accessible)?

Dan

 

[MilenP]

Hi @Danp2,

 

Unfortunately, for me, I cannot give a link or suitable example

I will try to find something, but if you are able to guide me without having access to the link, would be much appreciated
 

Thank you,

Milen

 

[Danp2]

Looks like Select2 is a jQuery library. Should be fairly easy to use jQuerify to gain access to the jQuery object and then trigger events as necessary.