WebBrowser Question

I have a program I used to use to automatically log me into a website, and worked fine for years, but now the site has converted to Flash, and I can no longer specify a 'href' button click, due to the controls all being Flash-based now - I cannot find an ID for the button I need to click, and viewing the source code for the site does not show any links other than 'Get Flash Player' - Is there any way to click a Flash button at runtime via code, without knowing the button ID? This has been bugging me for days now! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Nope. Flash is completely self contained. They probably adopted it specifically to stop people doing what you've been doing!

I actually figured it out, for the most part (BTW, I am part owner of the site, and my partner upgraded without notifying me first) - I use this to simulate the 'click', which DOES work, but now I can't find out how to get the coordinates of the button o.O

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Public Class Form1
Private Declare Function SetCursorPos Lib "User32.dll" (ByVal X As Int32, ByVal Y As Int32) As Int32
Private Declare Sub mouse_event Lib "user32" Alias "mouse_event" (ByVal dwFlags As Int32, ByVal dx As Int32, ByVal dy As Int32, ByVal cButtons As Int32, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Int32)
Private Const MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN As Int32 = &H2
Private Const MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP As Int32 = &H4
Private Const MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTDOWN As Int32 = &H8
Private Const MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTUP As Int32 = &H10
Private Const MOUSEEVENTF_MIDDLEDOWN As Int32 = &H20
Private Const MOUSEEVENTF_MIDDLEUP As Int32 = &H40


Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
' Go to button
SetCursorPos(800, 405)
' Click button
mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, 0, 0, 0, 0)
mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, 0, 0, 0, 0)
End Sub
End Class

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Can anyone tell me how I can find where in my WebBrowser the button is located?

Ah, well you'd need to be able to identify the button by ID or .... oh! :rolleyes:

You'll just have to settle on a position and hope that it doesn't shift about too much in the browser on different occasions. Time to get a new partner, perhaps?

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

Time to get a new partner, perhaps?

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He pays for everything, so I kind of have no choice but to let him do what he wants LOL :-P

I miss VB6 just because I could assign a 'startup position' just by dragging the form in the preview area, but can't in NET - I can already see this is going to be a lot of 'fine tuning' to get this right :-s

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Originally Posted by relentlesstech

He pays for everything, so I kind of have no choice but to let him do what he wants LOL :-P

I miss VB6 just because I could assign a 'startup position' just by dragging the form in the preview area, but can't in NET

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The Form has a StartPosition property. You can set it to Manual in the Form's Properties Window in the Designer and then set its Location property as required