Sending “click” Message to a Internet Explorer_Server window link

Question

Iam trying to automate a process in a little game which uses Internet Explorer_Server windows with links as "buttons". I managed to get the handle of the window and also got the html code from it but now I struggle to send a "click" or Mousebuttonpressed event to the links. I would appreciate any help with this.

Answer 1

You cannot send mouse input directly to the inner controls of an IE window. What you can do instead is start with the HWND of the "Internet Explorer_Server" window, ask it for its IHTMLDocument2 interface ( see here for details ), and then use Internet Explorer's own DOM interfaces to find the link elements as needed and call their click() method directly.