Hello,

For the past few days I have been trying to write a little utility that will fire up IE navigate to a page fill out a form and submit it using Win32::OLE. For the most part this work beautifully, however, I am running into a problem with <input type="file"> objects. Apparently these are read only so I can't simply set the value in perl (at least not that I am aware of).

So instead I just use the ->Click() method which brings up a dialog box to choose a file.

The problem is after this ->Click() no other perl code is executed until I close the dialog box...I have a method that will fill in the name of the file and submit it, the problem is when I can't seem to detect when the file chooser dialog comes up :(

IE doesn't seem to fire any events indicating this dialog has been activated.

Basically I need to know when the dialog is open so I can execute code to fill in the file name and submit it.

Is there something I am missing here? Do I need to add another listener (ie Win32::OLE->WithEvents( ????)) that might catch this event?

Is there some other way to do this?

Thank you in advance for any insight anyone can provide.

In reply to Catching windows dialog events Win32::OLE? by vectorscope

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