I am writing a solution in MSAccess 2003 that uses the WebBrowser control to 
get data from a website. The solution requires me to login once, and, for 
multiple records, enter some search criteria which takes me to a page with 
the data I ultimately want to get. I login and submit my search ok. However, 
the ensuing page has an image which links to data displayed in a pop-up 
window. This is where I run into a jam. How do I reference the document 
object contained in that pop-up window? I have made several attempts in 
different ways but none seem to get me there.

Can anyone help?

"JonWayn"  wrote in message
news:3DEB69D9-79F1-436C-ADF9-F92EBC46B717@microsoft.com
> However, the ensuing page has an image which
> links to data displayed in a pop-up window. This is where I run into
> a jam. How do I reference the document object contained in that
> pop-up window?

See KB article KB184876 "How To Use the WebBrowser Control NewWindow2 
Event"
-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
overhead. -- RFC 1925

That was very helpful, but for a later stage in this development. It is nice 
gaining the knowledge of how to direct the new window to an 
application-created window, however, the creation of the new window is 
initiated by clicking an image that is contained withing a Frame (IFRAME 
tags). The image, <IMG>, is contained within <A> tags which are contained 
within the aforementioned <IFRAME> tags. Using the GetElementsBY... methods 
of the Document object does not return any of the objects within the IFrame 
section, therefore, I dont have access to the Click method of the link or 
image object that brings this new window about.

I guess my initial question should have been, how do I gain access to the 
document elements within an IFrame?

As it is right now, I have to manually click the image to create the new 
window. That manual interaction is the very thing I am trying to automate.

Thanks

"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:

> "JonWayn"  wrote in message
> news:3DEB69D9-79F1-436C-ADF9-F92EBC46B717@microsoft.com
> > However, the ensuing page has an image which
> > links to data displayed in a pop-up window. This is where I run into
> > a jam. How do I reference the document object contained in that
> > pop-up window?
> 
> See KB article KB184876 "How To Use the WebBrowser Control NewWindow2 
> Event"
> -- 
> With best wishes,
>     Igor Tandetnik
> 
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> overhead. -- RFC 1925 
> 
> 
>

"JonWayn"  wrote in message
news:372C3C26-62E4-481F-A1B1-43B2FA853195@microsoft.com
> I guess my initial question should have been, how do I gain access to
> the document elements within an IFrame?

Using window.frames collection.
-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
overhead. -- RFC 1925

I am trying to search for the text that you replied with, but I am not coming 
up with a match. Where do  I start?

Thank you

"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:

> "JonWayn"  wrote in message
> news:372C3C26-62E4-481F-A1B1-43B2FA853195@microsoft.com
> > I guess my initial question should have been, how do I gain access to
> > the document elements within an IFrame?
> 
> Using window.frames collection.
> -- 
> With best wishes,
>     Igor Tandetnik
> 
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> overhead. -- RFC 1925 
> 
> 
>

"JonWayn"  wrote in message
news:03945B64-ADDE-4547-999F-2F23919CADEB@microsoft.com
> I am trying to search for the text that you replied with, but I am
> not coming up with a match. Where do  I start?

You must be kidding. On the off chance you are not, see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/collections/frames.asp

-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
overhead. -- RFC 1925

From what I've read, you can use the Navigate method and the NewWindow2 event 
of the WB control to determine the output window of a page that is about to 
be displayed - that is; when you know beforehand, the URL of the page to be 
displayed. However, the situation I am faced with is one in which I dont know 
the URL. Clicking an image, on the other hand, does not trigger the 
NewWindow2 event (unless there is a way unbeknownst to me to get it to), and 
therefore doesnt permit me to direct the output to a choice window. 

The Click event of the IMG runs a JavaScript, passing some arguments in, 
which opens a new IE window that displays the data I want to tap into. I know 
this because during my work, I open another IE instance where I navigate to 
the webpage that I am working with, as I go along,  and experiment with a 
very useful IE add-in that displays the HTML behind any element that I click. 

So here is where I'm at right now. I am now able to read the contents of the 
IFrame block, navigating my WB control to the url returned by the IFrame's 
WindowContent.Location property - thanks to the first link you posted. 
However, this page has only header information to the details I really want. 
To get these details, I must click on an IMG, which runs a script that opens 
an external IE window - displaying the details.

Is there any way to direct the output of the details to a choice window?

"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:

> "JonWayn"  wrote in message
> news:03945B64-ADDE-4547-999F-2F23919CADEB@microsoft.com
> > I am trying to search for the text that you replied with, but I am
> > not coming up with a match. Where do  I start?
> 
> You must be kidding. On the off chance you are not, see
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/collections/frames.asp
> 
> -- 
> With best wishes,
>     Igor Tandetnik
> 
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> overhead. -- RFC 1925 
> 
> 
>

"JonWayn"  wrote in message
news:3355C637-A9AE-44F1-8A73-FD20452E4FEC@microsoft.com
> From what I've read, you can use the Navigate method and the
> NewWindow2 event of the WB control to determine the output window of
> a page that is about to be displayed - that is; when you know
> beforehand, the URL of the page to be displayed.

To call Navigate, you of course need to know the URL you want to 
navigate to.

Your statement about NewWindow2 event doesn't make sense to me. You 
register a handler for this event, and the browser calls it whenever it 
tries to open a new window, for whatever reason. You don't need to know 
the eventual URL of that new window at the time you register the 
handler, if that's what you are thinking.

> However, the
> situation I am faced with is one in which I dont know the URL.
> Clicking an image, on the other hand, does not trigger the NewWindow2
> event

It should, if a click on an image results in the browser opening a new 
window. Which, you seemed to mention, does happen in your case.

> The Click event of the IMG runs a JavaScript, passing some arguments
> in, which opens a new IE window

At which point you should get NewWindow2 event.

> So here is where I'm at right now. I am now able to read the contents
> of the IFrame block, navigating my WB control to the url returned by
> the IFrame's WindowContent.Location property

Why do you do that? Why not just work with the content that's already 
loaded into an iframe? Realize that window.frames collection is a 
collection of window objects, one for each frame. Such objects have all 
the properties and methods that a top-level window object has. For 
example, if you have a page with an iframe, and that iframe has a button 
with an id="mybutton", you can click it like this:

window.frames(0).mybutton.click();

> Is there any way to direct the output of the details to a choice
> window?

Yes - you handle NewWindow2 event.
-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
overhead. -- RFC 1925

I didnt get what I was looking for with that link. As it is right now, using 
the first link you posted, I am able to access the contents of the IFrame 
section of the main document - by passing the ContentWindow.Location property 
of the IFrame and 1 to the Navigate method of the WB control. However, the 
data contained directly within the IFrame are only header information; the 
data that I really want, come up after I click an IMG element in this header. 
The IMG's Click method, however, does not trigger the NewWindow2 event, which 
I would need in order to direct the ensuing page to a window of choice. So, I 
am still unable to tap into the details that I wish to. The IMG's click event 
runs a javascript function which accepts some arguments to return the page 
needed. I know this because I open another IE instance and parallel the 
navigation that I do in my work as I go along using an add-in that shows the 
underlying HTML of any element I click in the browser.

So, the help I need now is in figuring out a way to trap the output page 
into a window I choose, following the Click event of the IMG. Or if there is 
a way to run the JavaScript from the client and direct its output to my 
window.

Thank you

"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:

> "JonWayn"  wrote in message
> news:03945B64-ADDE-4547-999F-2F23919CADEB@microsoft.com
> > I am trying to search for the text that you replied with, but I am
> > not coming up with a match. Where do  I start?
> 
> You must be kidding. On the off chance you are not, see
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/collections/frames.asp
> 
> -- 
> With best wishes,
>     Igor Tandetnik
> 
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> overhead. -- RFC 1925 
> 
> 
>

disregard my last post. It was a repost of the previous post - because MS 
complained that it did not go thru the first time

"JonWayn" wrote:

> I didnt get what I was looking for with that link. As it is right now, using 
> the first link you posted, I am able to access the contents of the IFrame 
> section of the main document - by passing the ContentWindow.Location property 
> of the IFrame and 1 to the Navigate method of the WB control. However, the 
> data contained directly within the IFrame are only header information; the 
> data that I really want, come up after I click an IMG element in this header. 
> The IMG's Click method, however, does not trigger the NewWindow2 event, which 
> I would need in order to direct the ensuing page to a window of choice. So, I 
> am still unable to tap into the details that I wish to. The IMG's click event 
> runs a javascript function which accepts some arguments to return the page 
> needed. I know this because I open another IE instance and parallel the 
> navigation that I do in my work as I go along using an add-in that shows the 
> underlying HTML of any element I click in the browser.
> 
> So, the help I need now is in figuring out a way to trap the output page 
> into a window I choose, following the Click event of the IMG. Or if there is 
> a way to run the JavaScript from the client and direct its output to my 
> window.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> "Igor Tandetnik" wrote:
> 
> > "JonWayn"  wrote in message
> > news:03945B64-ADDE-4547-999F-2F23919CADEB@microsoft.com
> > > I am trying to search for the text that you replied with, but I am
> > > not coming up with a match. Where do  I start?
> > 
> > You must be kidding. On the off chance you are not, see
> > 
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/collections/frames.asp
> > 
> > -- 
> > With best wishes,
> >     Igor Tandetnik
> > 
> > With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> > necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> > land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> > overhead. -- RFC 1925 
> > 
> > 
> >

> Your statement about NewWindow2 event doesn't make sense to me. You 
> register a handler for this event, and the browser calls it whenever it 
> tries to open a new window, for whatever reason. You don't need to know 
> the eventual URL of that new window at the time you register the 
> handler, if that's what you are thinking.


Well, you turn out to be right. Something must have gone wrong before 
though, because, I executed the Click method numerous times b4, with a break 
mark at the declaration of the NewWindow2 event, and it didnt execute. Now it 
does. Thanks.

> > So here is where I'm at right now. I am now able to read the contents
> > of the IFrame block, navigating my WB control to the url returned by
> > the IFrame's WindowContent.Location property

> Why do you do that? Why not just work with the content that's already 
> loaded into an iframe? Realize that window.frames collection is a 
> collection of window objects, one for each frame. Such objects have all 
> the properties and methods that a top-level window object has. For 
> example, if you have a page with an iframe, and that iframe has a button 
> with an id="mybutton", you can click it like this:
> 
> window.frames(0).mybutton.click();
> 

Because I was referencing the IFrame by, 
Doc.GetElementsByTagName("IFrame").Item(0), which did retur an object - whose 
Length property returned 0; needless to say its All, and GetElementsBy... 
properties returned Nothing.
I havent yet, but I'll try what you suggest in this post. I hope you are 
right about the use of window.Frames ... The reason I say that is because the 
last webpage you directed me to says something about Window objects not 
giving access to the Frames/IFrames they contain.

Thanks a million

"JonWayn"  wrote in message
news:4EB7EBEB-8AC2-4796-9F43-9DEF0DEBEA6A@microsoft.com
> Because I was referencing the IFrame by,
> Doc.GetElementsByTagName("IFrame").Item(0)

From here, you can get the frame's window object with contentWindow 
property.
-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
overhead. -- RFC 1925

This thing is frustrating me now. 2 posts ago I said that the Click method 
triggers the NewWindow2 event. Well, it did 2 or so times. Now its back to 
not firing that event. Are there any known problems with NewWindow2 not 
firing in response to windows opened by Javascript code? Also, any 
workarounds? What if I were to use the class module approach that traps IE 
events, would that answer the issue?

Thanks

"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:

> "JonWayn"  wrote in message
> news:4EB7EBEB-8AC2-4796-9F43-9DEF0DEBEA6A@microsoft.com
> > Because I was referencing the IFrame by,
> > Doc.GetElementsByTagName("IFrame").Item(0)
> 
> From here, you can get the frame's window object with contentWindow 
> property.
> -- 
> With best wishes,
>     Igor Tandetnik
> 
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> overhead. -- RFC 1925 
> 
> 
>

I step thru or run my code with a break at the NewWindow2 event. I execute 
imgDetailsLink.Click. Execution moves to the next line in that procedure and 
a new IE window pops up. However, if I were to stop vb, switch to the 
application window and manually mouse-click the image control withing the WB, 
than the NewWindow2 event fires. I really dont get it

"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:

> "JonWayn"  wrote in message
> news:4EB7EBEB-8AC2-4796-9F43-9DEF0DEBEA6A@microsoft.com
> > Because I was referencing the IFrame by,
> > Doc.GetElementsByTagName("IFrame").Item(0)
> 
> From here, you can get the frame's window object with contentWindow 
> property.
> -- 
> With best wishes,
>     Igor Tandetnik
> 
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> overhead. -- RFC 1925 
> 
> 
>

I've got a question fr you Igor: once I have a reference to the contentWindow 
property of a frame, how do I call the methods of objects contained therein 
without knowing their names or Ids?

Or

Is there a way to iterate thru the elements of such window and return their 
attributes?

"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:

> "JonWayn"  wrote in message
> news:4EB7EBEB-8AC2-4796-9F43-9DEF0DEBEA6A@microsoft.com
> > Because I was referencing the IFrame by,
> > Doc.GetElementsByTagName("IFrame").Item(0)
> 
> From here, you can get the frame's window object with contentWindow 
> property.
> -- 
> With best wishes,
>     Igor Tandetnik
> 
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> overhead. -- RFC 1925 
> 
> 
>

JonWayn  wrote:
> I've got a question fr you Igor: once I have a reference to the
> contentWindow property of a frame, how do I call the methods of
> objects contained therein without knowing their names or Ids?

What _do_ you know about them? How do you plan to decide which object 
you want to work with?

> Is there a way to iterate thru the elements of such window and return
> their attributes?

window.all
-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
overhead. -- RFC 1925

Can I send you the relevant parts of my program so you can take a look for 
yourself and see that somehowthe click method does not trigger the NewWindow2 
event? 

Maybe there's something I'm doing wrong that I just isn't finding.

"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:

> JonWayn  wrote:
> > I've got a question fr you Igor: once I have a reference to the
> > contentWindow property of a frame, how do I call the methods of
> > objects contained therein without knowing their names or Ids?
> 
> What _do_ you know about them? How do you plan to decide which object 
> you want to work with?
> 
> > Is there a way to iterate thru the elements of such window and return
> > their attributes?
> 
> window.all
> -- 
> With best wishes,
>     Igor Tandetnik
> 
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> overhead. -- RFC 1925
> 
> 
>

By the way, window objects dont have an All property  -  unless I am 
misunderstanding you when you use the term "window". If you are talking 
about the object returned from WebBrowserControl.Document.Frames, then there 
is no All property to it. If you were referring to something else, please 
explain how I get it, its hierarchy up to its parent.
Thanks



"Igor Tandetnik"  wrote in message 
news:OzP1rPaZHHA.3272@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> JonWayn  wrote:
>> I've got a question fr you Igor: once I have a reference to the
>> contentWindow property of a frame, how do I call the methods of
>> objects contained therein without knowing their names or Ids?
>
> What _do_ you know about them? How do you plan to decide which object you 
> want to work with?
>
>> Is there a way to iterate thru the elements of such window and return
>> their attributes?
>
> window.all
> -- 
> With best wishes,
>    Igor Tandetnik
>
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> overhead. -- RFC 1925
>
>

"JonWayn"  wrote in message
news:%23jR2sjeZHHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl
> By the way, window objects dont have an All property

Sorry, it's window.document.all
-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
overhead. -- RFC 1925