Hello, everyone! I'm having trouble getting WWW::Mechanize::Firefox to scroll down lines or pages in my current window.

What I'm trying to do is navigate through some dialogues that generate a PDF in the window. Then I use xpath to pull the text from a few specific divs. The problem I'm running into is that it only seems to pre-load the first 2 pages of the PDF document and I need to scroll down to load the rest before xpath will snag all of the text I need.

Here is my code:

 my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new(
      activate => 1,
 );
$mech->get('https://managemymarket.com/managers/acReporting/SalesForMa
+rket.aspx?id=2');

$mech->select("#marketID", '1740');
$mech->field("#startDate", '4/1/2015');  
$mech->field("#endDate", $date);   
$mech->click({ selector => '#btnRun' });

my ($window,$type) = $mech->eval('window');
$window->scrollByLines(188);

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No scrolling occurs however. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Nony

UPDATE: Looks like scrollByLines does not work in the built in PDF viewer. However, I was able to iterate through the pages numbers using $mech->field("#pageNumber", $i) to produce the effect that I needed.

In reply to Mechanize::Firefox can't get it to scroll by WonderLemming

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