Irritating issues with Internet Explorer

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If any one out there has managed to stop the print & save dialogue boxes from being displayed could they PLEASE contact me.

I am writing an automation process using IE6. I am using an OLEVariant and all other features of the app are perfect, except the print & save functions, which require confirmation each time. I am using the execCommand method, in which I am setting the display dialog parameter to False, as well as setting the application objects Silent property to True as well! Still the dialogs appear. :-((

As the system design is to be unattended it is crucial I find some fix/way around. Here is an example of what I am doing:

procedure TForm1.btnTestClick(Sender: TObject);

var
ovIE: OLEVariant;

begin
ovIE:=CreateOLEObject('InternetExplorer.Application');
Try
ovIE.Visible:=True;
ovIE.Silent:=True;
ovIE.Navigate('

http://www.marketresearch.com');

Repeat
Sleep(250);
Until Not ovIE.Busy;
{...
Do my processing of required pages
...}
ovIE.Document.execCommand('Print',False,Null); {Same prob with save command!}
Except
ovIE.Quit;
End;
end;

ANYONE with ANY ideas of how I might fix or get around the problem PLEASE PLEASE contact me. The program is only waiting for this issue and it can be implemented.

TIA
Ian.

 

[GeppoDarkson]

Hi,
what about using the TWebBrowser to load your page instead of using IE6?

Maybe if you've made all the rest, you can use it just for print.

Ciao,
Geppo Darkson.

 

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Right, I tried that and it did work for the print! But as per usual it won't cure what ails me because:

I need to access java script procedures within the pages I am accessing. I can do this via the OLEVariant but (dunno why) not throught the IDispatch of the TWebBrowser component.

eg. In one of the pages there is a procedure called doSubmitForm()
Using the above code I just do ovIE.Document.doSubmitForm() but I get a compiler error when I use WebBrowser1.Document.doSubmitForm()

If I could get the Save method of the OLEObject instance to work without prompting me then I could do this. Anyone any other ideas?

TIA

Ian.

 

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SOLVED IT!

Stupidly simple as it happens. All I needed to do was typecast the document property of the TWebBrowser with OLEVariant and hey-presto!

OLEVariant(WebBrowser1.Document).doSubmitForm() accesses the pages java routine.

Sweet. Hope this helps some1 else in future. It was a pain working it out.