[SOLVED] SEND is sending keystrokes to the editor window

[MrMike2000]

I'm trying to make a simple login script to an HTTPS tunneling service and I've hit a bit of a weird snag...

The code below opens up Firefox to a given URL and tries to TAB to the first input box (the username).

The script opens Firefox up correctly but the new browser window appears in the background, often behind the SciTE editor.  The resulting keystrokes get sent to the SciTE editor.

I've tried to focus the window with WinActivate but it doesn't seem to find the window. If I start the script by double-clicking on it (as opposed to running it from editor) the browser appears behind the file explorer window. I tried pausing things a bit with some Sleep commands to give Firefox time to start up, but nothing seems to work so far.

Basically my questions are:

What am I doing wrong- why is the browser appearing behind things instead of on top?
How can I open that URL and send keystrokes to the form?
 

 

#Include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>
#include <AutoItConstants.au3>

$command = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -new-tab "
$url = "https://dashboard.ngrok.com/login"
Run($command & $url, "")

Sleep(5)

WinActivate("ngrok")

Sleep(4)

; send 2 tabs
Send("{TAB}")
Send("{TAB}")

 

Edited April 18, 2020 by MrMike2000

[careca]

Hi, instead of winactivate, i think winwait or winwaitactive would work better

#Include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>
#include <AutoItConstants.au3>

$command = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -new-tab "
$url = "https://dashboard.ngrok.com/login"
Run($command & $url, "")
WinWait("ngrok")
WinActivate("ngrok")

; send 2 tabs
Send("{TAB}")
Send("{TAB}")

 

[MrMike2000]

Thank you , Careca, that helped.  It now brings the Firefox browser up on top of everything and at the right URL, but I'm not seeing it send any keystrokes.

After a little work I gave it a few seconds of Sleep after the Winactivate command and that seemed to give it enough time to get ready for input. So as of now, this part works. Thanks for your help Careca!

#Include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>
#include <AutoItConstants.au3>

$command = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -new-tab "
$url = "https://dashboard.ngrok.com/login"
Run($command & $url, "")
WinWait("ngrok")
WinActivate("ngrok")

Sleep(5000)

; send 2 tabs
Send("{TAB}")
Send("{TAB}")

; send username
Send("none@none.com")

Sleep(2000)

; tab to next field
Send("{TAB}")

; enter the password and then Send("{Enter}")...etc etc

 

Edited April 13, 2020 by MrMike2000

[MrMike2000]

So to follow up, my goal was to log into the ngrok service and (eventually) pull some text off the screen (the current HTTPS tunnels).

After login ngrok takes you to your dashboard, which wasn't where I wanted to go (I need to go to the status page). I was going to send some more TABs to get to the link I wanted and then click on it, but that seemed a little shaky- if they change the site the script would break.

Unfortunately, the Autoit tool that you can use to hover over something and find out info about it doesn't seem to work on the ngrok site- it doesn't find buttons or text at all.

So I went about it another way, albeit probably not the cleanest way, but it works. I use Autoit to login, wait a few moments, and then close the browser. Then I have Autoit open up a new browser window with the URL of the status page, and it goes right to it.

Now I have to figure out how to get the text off the screen, so it's time for me to do some more reading.   (At the same time, any suggestions would be more than  welcome.)

[Danp2]

@MrMike2000 When you are ready to implement a "cleaner" solution, take a look at the Webdriver UDF (see my sig).

[MrMike2000]

Danp2,

Thank you; yes, my method is pretty kludgy, no doubt about it. 

I've seen the Webdriver page and it looks like the way to go; I tried using it but I'm sure I was doing something wrong and I couldn't get to work for me. Maybe I can give it another go. 

Edited April 18, 2020 by MrMike2000