Hi, I have zero experience writing perl to deal with gui and or win32 stuff. I'm looking for a pointer; a clue as to which direction I should be looking in. I run this, pretty much verbatim from manpage, 
use Win32::IE::Mechanize;
use strict;
use warnings;

    my $ie = Win32::IE::Mechanize->new( visible => 1 );
    $ie->get( "http://somesite.nu/work/fun-form.html" );
    $ie->form_name( "form2" );
    $ie->set_fields(
        message => 'yourname',
        email => 'dummy\@dummy.net' 
    );

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The snippet runs, then kind of falls off the edge and dies. What I will be wanting to do is to be populating a whole series of forms with the user verifying each dataset before the sequence moves on to submit_form, and the next form. I'm imagining that if I can give the explorer object 'focus' then perhaps the script will be in the holding pattern that I am looking for. I thought about telling it to wait for keyboard input, but I could see that interfering with form field tweaks. I've been scrolling through the active state perl docs, and the win32::ole browser, but I'm kind of at sea in this area. All I want to know is where I should be directing my attention, thanks

In reply to Win32::OLE ; set focus? by food

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