I am trying to make an app on .NET to click the "submit" button on a web page. Basically the app is filling out forms and clicking submit. Most of the pages work but some of them they have a graphic like "NEXT" and "PREVIOUS". There is no submit type control on the web page. The source code that I can see doesnt show that there is a JS to call or anything. The web source just looks like its a graphic, and nothing else.
I am trying to find out how I would click on the graphic or find out what its doing like calling javascript or something so I can emulate it.
Does anyone have any ideas?
The page could be adding the click event handler somewhere else in javascript. If you are looking for a automation solution Watin would be another program to look at to automate firefox or IE using .Net.
Do you need to do it in .NET? I write simple automation programs like this all the time in Sikuli, it's very good for this sort of thing.
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I am trying to make a custom web browser inside an electron application. Using webview (because iframe is not loading some necessary web pages) I can load a web page.
Then trying to write something into the web page´s input by clicking on the react-simple-keyboard which causes blur event, so input loses focus.
I figured out, that this approach would not work directly, so via ipc communication I am trying to resend the key button value and then set it to the window with const {keyboard} = require("#nut-tree/nut-js"); keyboard.type(args.value);
In my input, above the webview tag, it works like a charm, but I am not able to type inside the webview.
Can anyone help me to solve this problem or does anyone know a perfect solution how to use other OSK in electron app or how to open native windows osk on input focus? Thank you in advance.
I'm not sure how you'd accomplish that with this library. But you can just use Window's default on-screen-keyboard to accomplish that. Here is a link to how enable it. windows support
You should also use a BrowserView instead of a Webview, as the Webview is not guaranteed to be present in future versions and it's API is unstable.
The BrowserView doesn't work like an HTML element though and you should read the docs here.
But anyways, just use the system's default and you should be fine.
Also, if you're interested, I'm developing a web browser with Electron (in fact, I'm currently writing this using that browser) and as far as I can say, it's written pretty simply and anyone should understand most of it, so take a look if you're in trouble. But I am no expert and you shouldn't rely on my code as a standard of any kind, really.
Well, I might have just found an answer for you.
Firstly, as I mentioned, you should use a BrowserView instead of webView for your external content, and this time it is a requirement for this method to work. I would create a BrowserWindow with the controls at the top, then place a BrowserView to act as a "browser" and create another BrowserView at the bottom and load in the keyboard html file. And then, when a key is pressed on the virtual keyboard, you should send an ipc message to the main script with the information of what key was pressed(it should be done via a preload script for the OSK BrowserView). In the main script, once you recieve the ipc message (via ipcMain.on()) you should then send an input event to the BrowserView containing your external content. That's done by calling contents.sendInputEvent(Event), so it has to be a main script. Here is a link to contents.sendInputEvent(Event), BrowserView (link) and preload script as well as ipc communication (link).
As for invoking the keyboard once you click on the input element, you could probably do it with a preload script for your "browser's" BrowserView, if you can find how you can check whether the focused element is an input element or something like that, and call an ipc message to then hide or show the keyboard. (Hiding and shwoing the keyboard could be done by calling BrowserWindow.addBrowserView(BrowserView) or BrowserWindow.removeBrowserView(BrowserView). But you would have to search the documentation yourself for those methods as I can't write anymore right now. Documentation could anwser any of your questions if you search for it there.
I'm using Selenium with VBA and Microsoft Edge to collect information, and download some files from a webpage. Everything works great except for the downloading part.
On this example site: https://file-examples.com/index.php/sample-documents-download/sample-doc-download/, Code like
oWebDriver.FindElementByXPath("//a[#href=""https://file-examples-com.github.io/uploads/2017/02/file-sample_100kB.doc""]").Click
will result in a popup like this:
Unfortunately, it is not possible to simply change the browser's preferences in my case, because the macro will be running on a machine with limited authorization and the following setting can not be changed:
The last option can be translated to: "Ask for the storage location with every download" and it is locked.
It seems that the "Save As" popup in the first screenshot can't be accessed, neither with Selenium nor with SendKeys.
So the only option seems to be using the Windows API with VBA to somehow automate this step, however, even so, it seems to be impossible to get a handle on this pesky popup. I tried finding the window with Spy++ and it doesn't seem to show up as a separate window:
The only solution I can now think of is getting the window size of the parent Edge browser window, navigating the mouse to the approximate position of the "Save As" button, and clicking it there using VBA and the Windows API. Obviously, This is not a great solution, as it would be quite frail and can easily break with the smallest misalignment.
Is there any other way to automate this step that doesn't require moving the mouse and automating the "manual" clicking, using only VBA with Selenium?
Selenium only works for browser web page automation. The pop-up is not a part of the wab page so Selenium will not be able to recognize it.
And I think any setting in Selenium including "download.prompt_for_download" won't have effect. The pop-up is controlled by the browser setting, and the browser setting is controlled by your group policy, you can't override it with Selenium settings.
I think the only way is to use some 3rd party UI automation library to click that option along with Selenium, just like what you said in the question.
I want to make a desktop gadget like the Sticky notes that we have but just with some additional functionality.
Now that the gadgets have been discontinued in windows, i am not sure about what technology to use to create this app.
I want to create a custom UI like just a Add button on the side of the desktop and clicking on it would create notes.
I was trying to use node-webkit but seems that will appear like a web page and not what I want. Can anyone tell me what should i use to achieve the result.
A Node Webkit window doesn't have to look like a webpage. You can use a frameless window and then design the UI to look however you want with HTML and CSS.
Frameless Window
I'm new to Chrome extension development, and I'm a bit struggling with the architecture to put in place.
I would like to develop an extension (browser_action), that, when the button is clicked, opens a window where information will be populated from the WebTraffic.
I figured out I could use the WebRequest API to get info about the traffic.
I could create a popup window, but it's displayed only when I click on the extension button, and hides as soon as I click somewhere else
I tried creating a background window, but it does not show up.
I'd be very grateful if anyone could help me with the initial setup of my application.
Thanks in advance
You need both.
Take a look at the Architecture Overview, or maybe this question.
The lifetime of the popup is indeed equal to how long it stays on screen. It's the UI part, but putting logic there is usually bad.
A background page is permanently there but invisible. It's typically the "brain" of an extension, taking care of heavy lifting and routing messages to other parts.
In short:
You need a background script to collect webRequest information for you in some format.
You need a popup page to show it. Keep in mind it's not guaranteed to be present at a given time and can close at any time.
It's probably best to use Messaging to request the information from the background page. If you need real-time updates, you can use long-lived connections.
In your case you can also tightly couple the two and call chrome.runtime.getBackgroundPage() to directly reference stuff in it.
We have a asp.net web application which will be used in an intranet environment on IE 6. We want to change the default configuration of the browser so that it's always rendered without the Tool Bars, Menu Bars and Address Bar, just the browser window frame and the status bar should be present.
We were looking at the IEAK toolkit for IE6 but it doesn't seem to have the option of turning all this off though you can turn off certain menus and toolbar options.
Any ideas of how this can be done, is there a group policy setting or something that we can utilize here to get this done?
Thanks for your help.
You have to handle the showing of toolbars, address bar,... before the page is loaded, because it's built client side.
So to solve your problem, I think you should write the first page (Enter page for example) Then when use click on the Enter link you open another page using VBScript or Javascript to remove toolbars, address bar,...
Hope this helps ^^
Have you investigated Kiosk Mode?
Also, you're deploying IE6 at the wrong end of its lifecycle.
It also sounds like your requirement is for an app you're developing; mandating that the browser is configured this way for all sites might make the customers unhappy. If you want to know how to open a browser window without those things for your site, from your site, I'd suggest a repost to StackOverflow.