Scripting of User Interaction for IE

[Chris Hamilton]

OK, what I am trying to do is rather simple. I need to automatically
browse through a sources website and get information.
What I want to do is build a program that will log all events that occurs
inside IE such as mouse moves,clicks, keypresses, etc..
All this for a variety of pages that have html and applets. Then mark which
inputs I need to be variables and then save the sequence.
The client will then execute and take in the variable inputs and spit back a
formated reply of the info from the source page.

As I understand it the solution involves grabbing the document of a
webbrowser, parsing it for html and elements. Then accessing any
elements that are applets and saving all events for the document and
applets. As I save each one in some sort of way, it asks me if it
should be variable. Then I can hopefully spit back those events as some
sort of methods in the client.

Is this possible?
Is this a good idea?
Is there any easier way to script user interaction with IE so that it can
execute indepedently using variables?

Thank you for any thoughts,

Chris Hamilton

[Thomas Ganss]

Hi Chris,

hook your routine into each callable event... possibly with a generic
routine.
Dont parse the HTML, use the IE4 object model, found in the InetSDK.

HTH

thomas

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[Arthur Bishop]

Thomas Ganss wrote in message ...

>Hi Chris,
>
>hook your routine into each callable event... possibly with a generic
>routine.
>Dont parse the HTML, use the IE4 object model, found in the InetSDK.

Thomas,

I am looking for the exact kind of information Chris described, but using
your instructions above, I can find NOTHING. I have searched the MS site,
etc.

Can you please provide some information about where, specifically to locate
the information necessary to script IE4 interaction with a web site?

Thank you very much.

[Thomas Ganss]

Hi Arthur,

perhaps I read the original posting not exactly...

"Scripting" is ambigous. I automate IE on pages having HTML and JavaScript,
but have no expirience with applets as of now. That is the "scripting" I do,
not related to using any macro-recorder which might be useful as well. I am
using the MsHtml via the WebBrowser.

When generating new "scripts" I use a special instance, which shows the
actual element I am modifying by hand, and then I hit a button which saves
the
information.

My following "scripts" are programmatic-automatic modifications of the
document (model). It could be done with scripting language, but in case
of errors, debugging is easier in a single-language-setup...

This setup could be automated even further, but I found it better (for me!)
to play around a bit and only protocol necessary steps.

You could add a scripting function, which you hook into every HTML-event
using DHTML to do this or using the events of MsHtml to create a automatic
log.

hope this is clear enough

thomas

(sorry for the delay - snow was calling to be skied <g>)

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