VB actions on web page

[mike]

Hello,
I need a VB app to
1) go to a web page
2) enter text into a text box on that web page
3) click a button on that web page
4) and then search for text on the web page

I know how to do a shell command to do #1 but the rest i
could use some help/ideas on how to do it?

thanks,

mike

[Larry Serflaten]

"mike" <chop...@adelphia.net> wrote

If #3 is meant to click on a Submit button, you may be able to
skip #1 and #2. To skip those you would simply post back the
data in the format that the next page expects. For example:

You go to look up a word at www.dictionary.com
(try it)

That is about what you stated, you fill in the text to look for,
and hit Look It Up. But take note of what the Address bar
contains when you get the results back. You can go directly
to that result page, without having to fill in the text:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=skipped

This link is a direct link to the results page for the word; Skipped.
Using the direct link you can skip the first page entirely. All you
have to do is fill in the appropreate word after the URL; ?q=<word>

Maybe you can do something like that with your pages?

LFS