win32com: makepy causes ie problems.

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, David LeBlanc wrote:

> ie = DispatchEx('internetexplorer.application')
> ie.visible = 1
> ie.navigate('http://www.w3.org')
> 
> time.sleep(2)	# let the browser get to it, but sloppy - how to wait on
> browser ready?
> 
> dom = ie.document
> 
> I'm also interested, as the comment suggests, on how to wait for a browser
> to finish navigating before I query it's state?

Hi David,

I use a function like this:

def WaitForDoc(doc, extraDelay=0.0):
  if extraDelay:
    time.sleep(extraDelay)
  while not (hasattr(doc, 'readyState') and doc.readyState == 'complete'):
    time.sleep(0.1)

The only time I use the extraDelay parameter is when the link/button fires 
some Javascript (e.g. form validation) that in turn loads a new document - 
without that extra delay the function would return before the new document 
even begins loading.

-Dave