WebBrowser Question

[relentlesstech]

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!

[dunfiddlin]

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

[relentlesstech]

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

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

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

[dunfiddlin]

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

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?

[relentlesstech]

Time to get a new partner, perhaps?

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

[Inferrd]

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

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