[RESOLVED] Trying to send message to a textbox on Internet Explorer

[Psychotron]

I'm using myspace on the Internet, and I want to send a personal message to all of my buddies. I want the message to say something like "Ski trip on Wed," but in order to do it, I need to send the message to the textbox in the webpage presumably by using API and sendmessage. When I use Spy++ it won't lock onto the textbox on the webpage. Is this possible to do?

I thought that, if necessary, I could get the coordinates of where the textbox is and somehow send a message to it. I know I can use the coordinates to click it, but am not sure about sending a message to it.

Can anyone help, or is this just not possible?

Thanks,
Brad

[Bruce Fox]

If it's a Web Page, you dont need to use SPY++/API etc.

I don't have any code handy where I am at the moment. However a search will reveal tons of examples relating to filling in web pages etc.

[Psychotron]

Thanks. I searched for code related to filling in a textbox on a web page, but I don't understand the code. This is the easiest example I could find, but I'm completely lost. It's for filling in a textbox on a web page (http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=282948&):

With WB.Document
        If WB.ReadyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE Then
            .getElementById("email").Value = "myemail.email.com"
            .getElementById("comments").Value = "test"
            .Forms(0).Submit
        End If
    End With

I'm not sure what WB.Document, .getElementById, etc. mean or why they are used. Is there a place that would help me understand them? When I try to run this code during a click event in VB it highlights the 'WB' and says 'variable not defined.' Also '.Document' comes after 'WB.' why would I have 'Document' in my code if I'm working with a web page?

Thank you,
Brad

[Psychotron]

I found out what was wrong. I needed to add the component.