Focus on Popup from Web Browser

[dflak]

The attached program opens a web browser, runs a report and clicks on the link to download the report. Clicking on this link brings up a pop-up box asking if you want to Open, Save or Cancel the downloaded report.

When I get to this point manually, I can select the popup using the mouse or I can Press F6 and focus shifts to the Open button in the popup. I've attempted to emulate that in the code, but Sendkeys (which I would prefer not to use) doesn't seem to do the trick.

How can I get focus on this window? I'll use sendkeys if that's what it takes.

The URL is to a proprietary site. I don't know of a public site that acts the same way.

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[CK76]

To my knowledge IE does not expose SaveAs menu to API. Only way to automate it is via sendkeys as far as I'm aware.

However... if you can trace the request that's being sent to the server when download link is clicked...

You may be able to automatically download it via Winhttp request.

Below link may help.
https://chandoo.org/forum/threads/ho...1/#post-220193

[dflak]

Sendkeys does not seem to be working. When the report is done running and the box pops up. I can click on F6 on the keyboard and it selects the first button in the popup box. However SendKeys "{F6}" doesn't do anything.

I will look at the code suggested in the link, however I have to figure out what to fill in for "GET" and for getElementsById and getElementsByTagName.

[Marc L]

Hi !

See via the inner webbrowser inspector tool in network section the request used …

Another way is to use UIAutomationClient reference but seems to have issue under Windows 10.

[dflak]

EUREKA! Sendkeys does work - I needed to add a timing loop to allow the popup box to appear.

Marc, CK76 - thank you for your help and I will investigate. As I said, I am not a big fan of sendkeys since it is blind: it doesn't know where it is and it doesn't know what's happening.