AutoIt over Ruby question - How do I call ObjGet()?

Ruby
1

Here’s an example of using autoit inside of ruby.

require ‘win32ole’
autoit = WIN32OLE.new(“AutoItX3.Control”)
autoit.WinActivate(‘Yahoo!’)

So if this works, how come this doesn’t work?

require ‘win32ole’
autoit = WIN32OLE.new(“AutoItX3.Control”)
obj=autoit.ObjGet(’’,‘InternetExplorer.Application’)

How do I call the ObjGet() function? In other words, what COM object
contains that method?

2

sean_n wrote:

Here’s an example of using autoit inside of ruby.

require ‘win32ole’
autoit = WIN32OLE.new(“AutoItX3.Control”)
autoit.WinActivate(‘Yahoo!’)

So if this works, how come this doesn’t work?

require ‘win32ole’
autoit = WIN32OLE.new(“AutoItX3.Control”)
obj=autoit.ObjGet(‘’,‘InternetExplorer.Application’)

How do I call the ObjGet() function? In other words, what COM object
contains that method?

I can’t offer much help with regard to AutoIt, but you can connect to an
existing instance of IE using win32ole and the Shell object’s Windows
collection:

ie = nil
for window in WIN32OLE.new(‘Shell.Application’).Windows
begin
if window.Document.Title =~ /Yahoo/
ie = window
end
rescue
end
end

Further details here:

Hope that helps!

David

3

On Apr 12, 10:36 am, David M. [email protected] wrote:

autoit = WIN32OLE.new(“AutoItX3.Control”)
for window in WIN32OLE.new(‘Shell.Application’).Windows
begin
if window.Document.Title =~ /Yahoo/
ie = window
end
rescue
end
end

This seems not to work.

require ‘win32ole’
ie = nil
WIN32OLE.new(‘Shell.Application’).Windows.each do |window|
p window.FullName
p window.Name
begin
title = window.Document.Title
p title
if title =~ /Internet Explorer/
ie = window
end
rescue
end
end
p ie

— output —
“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE”
“Microsoft Internet Explorer”
“”
nil

4

On Apr 13, 8:20 am, David M. [email protected] wrote:

p title

“Microsoft Internet Explorer”
“”
nil

A key distinction here is between window.Name and window.Document.Title

[Re-posting my reply, as it seems to have been truncated on Google
Groups…]

A key distinction here is between window.Name and
window.Document.Title.

window.Document.Title is the Title as defined in the HTML code of a
window with a Type of “HTML Document”. This probably equates to the
window.LocationName property. The titlebar text will include both
window.Document.Title and window.Name, so…

if window.Document.Title =~ /Internet Explorer/

will usually NOT work, though…

if window.Name =~ /Internet Explorer/

…would work.

To grab an IE window from the Shell.Application.Windows collection…

You could test the Type property:

if window.Type == ‘HTML Document’

or you could test the window.Name property:

if window.Name =~ /Internet Explorer/

But to grab a particular IE window from the
Shell.Application.Windows
collection, you could use the window.Document.Title or
window.LocationName property

if window.Document.Title =~ /Yahoo/

if window.LocationName =~ /Yahoo/

David

5

On Apr 13, 5:56 pm, mully [email protected] wrote:

p window.FullName
p ie
Groups…]

A key distinction here is between window.Name and
window.Document.Title.

window.Document.Title is the Title as defined in the HTML code of a
window with a Type of “HTML Document”. This probably equates to the
window.LocationName property. The titlebar text will include both
window.Document.Title and window.Name, so…

The problem was that I had no html document loaded; the titlebar
text was “about:blank - Microsoft Internet Explorer” but
window.Document.Title was simply “”.

6

William J. wrote:

This seems not to work.

require ‘win32ole’
ie = nil
WIN32OLE.new(‘Shell.Application’).Windows.each do |window|
p window.FullName
p window.Name
begin
title = window.Document.Title
p title
if title =~ /Internet Explorer/
ie = window
end
rescue
end
end
p ie

— output —
“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE”
“Microsoft Internet Explorer”
“”
nil

A key distinction here is between window.Name and window.Document.Title
.

window.Document.Title is the Title as defined in the HTML code of a
window with a Type of “HTML Document”. This probably equates to the
window.LocationName property. The titlebar text will include both
window.Document.Title and window.Name, so…

if window.Document.Title =~ /Internet Explorer/

will usually NOT work, though…

if window.Name =~ /Internet Explorer/

…would work.

To grab an IE window from the Shell.Application.Windows collection…

You could test the Type property:

if window.Type == ‘HTML Document’

or you could test the window.Name property:

if window.Name =~ /Internet Explorer/

But to grab a particular IE window from the Shell.Application.Windows
collection, you could use the window.Document.Title or
window.LocationName property

if window.Document.Title =~ /Yahoo/

if window.LocationName =~ /Yahoo/

David