Vista - How to click on arbitrary highlighted item

Our company recently upgraded to IE7, and at the same time locked down
our IE system settings with group policies, so that we can't click on
Tools -> Internet Options and change anything. Unfortunately, the
upgrade broke the script I was using to access a remote site and
download a file automatically. Now, when I try to start the download,
I get the message, "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer
blocked this site from downloading files to your computer. Click here
for options..."

Since I can't change the IE settings, I decided to kludge my script to
click on the warning and tell it to go ahead with the download.
However, I can't figure out what to tell my script to click on. Since
the warning is generated by IE rather than the webpage, I don't know
what to use the Click method on. I did manage to use SendKeys to send
enough Tab characters to highlight the warning, but how do I use the
Click method to click on it once it's highlighted?

Thanks in advance to all who respond.
Leslie

On Jan 16, 12:34*pm, Leslie Houk <lh...@xxxxxx> wrote:You could just send an Enter key, something like ...

oWSHShell.Sendkeys "{Enter}"

However, why don't you just download the file directly using something
like ...

Sub DownBinFile(FilePath, sURL)
const adTypeBinary = 1
const adModeReadWrite = 3
const adSaveCreateOverwrite = 2
' Create an xmlhttp object:
set oXML = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
oXML.open "GET", sURL, False
oXML.send
With CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
.type = adTypeBinary
.mode = adModeReadWrite
.open
Do Until oXML.readyState = 4 : Wscript.Sleep 50 : loop
.write oXML.responseBody
.savetofile FilePath, adSaveCreateOverwrite
End With
End Sub

Tom Lavedas
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Tom,

Thanks for the response. I did try sending the Enter key, but it
doesn't seem to have any effect. Sending the Esc key will close the
warning, so I'm guessing that it only responds to the Escape key and
to being clicked on, which opens a drop-down menu of actions.

The code to download the file is a good idea as well, but I didn't
mention that the website I'm hitting is the front end for a database.
I get the file I want to download by clicking on an Export button,
which generates the file on the fly. So, an actual file which I could
download doesn't exist.

But again, thanks for the ideas, and please let me know if you have
any others.
Leslie

On Jan 16, 2:27*pm, Tom Lavedas <tglba...@xxxxxx> wrote:

Tom Lavedas schrieb:[...]As you specify "no async operation" here
this loop shouldn't be necessary.
[...]

On Jan 16, 6:19*pm, Leslie Houk <lh...@xxxxxx> wrote:In that case, find a copy of AutoItX. It is a free ActiveX control
that instruments mouse clicks as well as sending keys and other
things.

Tom Lavedas
=========

"Leslie Houk" <lhouk@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4a0b5e82-c973-45b8-8841-af1ff7531de6@xxxxxx
Tom,

Thanks for the response. I did try sending the Enter key, but it
doesn't seem to have any effect. Sending the Esc key will close the
warning, so I'm guessing that it only responds to the Escape key and
to being clicked on, which opens a drop-down menu of actions.

The code to download the file is a good idea as well, but I didn't
mention that the website I'm hitting is the front end for a database.
I get the file I want to download by clicking on an Export button,
which generates the file on the fly. So, an actual file which I could
download doesn't exist.

But again, thanks for the ideas, and please let me know if you have
any others.
Leslie

On Jan 16, 2:27 pm, Tom Lavedas <tglba...@xxxxxx> wrote:I think that Tom's idea of using AutoItX is the way to go. AutoIt includes
a utility to identify each of the active areas on an open window, like your
popup. You script can do the things that activate the popup, tell AutoItX
to wait for the popup, and click the active spot of interest on the popup.
I've found AutoItX to be a resourse hog, so you might not want it waiting
24x7 for some window to pop up, but in you situation it would only be
waiting for the window for a short time.

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/downloads.shtml

-Paul Randall