Triggering web form controls from vb6
Hello everyone. I'm new to these forums for Visual Basic, and I must say, I am impressed with the knowledge and help available here.
I program in VB6, and I am a semi-experienced programmer. I have some projects I have coming up that I need to find a way to use web pages in a certain way.
The programs will be much like a standard database program, with a built-in web browser. What I need to be able to do is "trigger" things on pages that are loaded into the web browser progrmatically. So, for instance, if there is a page with a form and a Submit button on it, I need to be able to have my program fill in values in the form boxes (I know a way to do this) and then trigger the Submit button, as if the user clicked on it, but without the user having to manually do that.
The essential idea would be to load the HTML file into a text box, "fill in" the various values for the boxes, write that to a new (temp) file, then load it into the web browser and "trigger" the submit button remotely.
I am trying to automate some processes this way, and dont have the ability to swich to other platforms like .NET. I need a way in VB6, something clear and simple. I know little of ASP or anything like that, but I am good at parsing HTML with VB, so that is representative of my skill level.
Thank you for any help anyone can provide on this.