From:

 Doug Geoffray

Subject:

 Re: How to retrieve the address bar in Internet Explorer

Date:

 Thu, Sep 23, 2010 3:19:33 pm

Chip,

Right, but my theory is the less you have to be dependent on an OSM the
better. The MSAA approach is 100 percent accurate 100 percent of the
time. The OSM...well, even if we were 100% accurate (which we aren't
and no screen reader is), if it were covered or off the screen or
something then it may not work.. I'd vote for the 100 percent accuracy
if at all possible.

by the way, in Notepad I never see anything other then the line and
column. Is there more status text you are trying to get?

Doug

On 9/23/2010 3:08 PM, Chip Orange wrote:

thanks Doug; like I said to Ron though clipstext works as well, as you
say, if there is one.

Chip

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*From:* Doug Geoffray [mailto:geoffray@gwmicro.com]

*Sent:* Thursday, September 23, 2010 3:08 PM
*To:* gw-scripting@gwmicro.com

*Subject:* Re: How to retrieve the address bar in Internet Explorer

Chip,

So if you don't want to use the clips and want to use MSAA as Ron
suggested you could do the following:

Get into Notepad and make sure the status bar is showing. Then bring

up Immed and type the following:

print
ActiveWindow.Children.FilterByType(wtStatus)(1).Accessible.Children(2).Name

In my case I get "Ln 7, Col 7"

That is a honker line but isn't it cool ? It obviously could

be broken up and in real life should be to make sure each step found
what you were looking for. For example if that status bar were not

enabled then this would throw an error because I assume I'll get a
Status window.

Doug

On 9/23/2010 2:14 PM, Ron Parker wrote:

Control.text is just the window title. A status bar doesn't have a
title, because it's (usually) composed of multiple sections, each

with their own text.

One way to get the pieces of text that make up a status bar is to get
the Accessible for that status bar, then look at the Name property of

each of its children.

On 9/23/2010 2:03 PM, Chip Orange wrote:

Hi Doug,

I have a variation of this problem in the second part of the wiki
scripting article, and I was going to mention it to David.

I wanted to run with your answer and expand upon it a bit and add it
to this solution, but using notepad. What I found however is that

while using my solution for this problem (the notepad status line) I
can use the clips to get to the clipstext property, I cannot use

your solution of use of the control object's text property, which
returns only an empty string (although it should work fine).

Would you happen to know why it doesn't? The answer in itself is
probably worth a mention in the wiki article.

thanks.
Chip

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*From:* Doug Geoffray [mailto:geoffray@gwmicro.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:28 AM

*To:* gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
*Subject:* Re: How to retrieve the address bar in Internet Explorer

David,

This is just like any other window. You first have to get the

window of interest and then get the contents from the window. In
Windows 7 using IE 8 I just did the following using the Immed script

to get the URL in the edit box.

1) launch IE
2) pop up Immed with ctrl-shift-q

3) type the line below followed by ENTER:

print activewindow.children.filterbytype(wtedit)(1).control.text

For me this printed and spoke "http://www.gwmicro.com/"; because I
was sitting at our home page.

Hope this helps.

Doug

On 9/22/2010 12:00 AM, David wrote:

OK, I have a scripting project, where I manage to focus a window in
Internet Explorer. What I need to do here, is to retrieve the

information held in the Address Bar.
Of course, I could have send some keystrokes from the script, and

worked my way around copying the info to the clipboard, then
retrieved it from there, somehow. Yet, I was wondering, if there is

any instructions in WE, that will let me - rather easily - get hold
of the info in the adressbar?

Thanks alot!
If there is no such instruction as per date, could it be

implemented in later versions? Or, does anyone have a set of
scripting lines, that perform the task? First talking about it,

would the same - or a similar instruction - give access to the
address bar in Windows Explorer, and in Firefox?

Thanks for all input on the matter!