I don't see anything in the doc about page state check.

What doc?

You are aware that Win32::IEAutomation is only half the docs (more like 5%)?

Win32::IEAutomation uses Win32::OLE to automate InternetExplorer.Application, msdn is where 95% of the docs live, and a whole bunch of that 95% is DOM documentation

Ok, back to checking if page is loaded, we start where we left off with nowait, so if you go to Win32::IEAutomation and Ctrl+Find in page for "wait" you'll find WaitforDone()

If you UTSL and look inside of WaitforDone you will see 

sub WaitforDone{
    my $self = shift;
    my $agent = $self->{agent};
    while ($agent->Busy || $agent->document->readystate ne "complete")
+{
        sleep 1;
    }
}

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So you can monkeypatch yourself a $ieauto->WaitforDoneTimeout( 6 ); 

sub Win32::IEAutomation::WaitforDoneTimeout {
    my( $self, $timeout ) = @_;
    $timeout ||= 0;
    
    my $starttime  = time;
    my $agent = $self->{agent};
    while( 1 ){
        my $loaded = !!( $agent->Busy || $agent->document->readystate 
+ne "complete" );
        return "loaded" if $loaded;
        sleep 1;
        if( (time - $starttime) > $timeout ){
            return "timedout";
        }
    }
    return "nuclear explosion";
}

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Also if you started from Click by looking inside https://metacpan.org/source/PRASHANT/Win32-IEAutomation-0.5/lib/Win32/IEAutomation/Element.pm#PWin32::IEAutomation::Element 

sub Click{
    my ($self, $nowait) = @_;
    $self->{element}->click;
    $self->{parent}->WaitforDone unless $nowait;
}

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you'd find WaitforDone , so the circle is complete ... that is ieautomation ;)

more generic win32 tips

If you want to automate anything on win32 you have to absorb the following knowledge . It mostly consists of learing the ole/excel/powerpoint... object model, and using Win32::OLE to call it or sending messages using guitest. OLE is essentially a fancy/standardised way of sending messages. Its very much like web-scraping, you have to know HTTP/HTML DOM .... the rest is just legwork

In reply to Re^3: How do I add a timeout to Win32::IEAutomation click method by Anonymous Monk
in thread How do I add a timeout to Win32::IEAutomation click method by Redbeard36

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