How to receive events (eg. user mouse clicks) from IE

[cal_2pac at yahoo.com]

Thanks for your prompt responses and the code.
However, when I run the code I get com error
 d=win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents(ie.Document, Doc_Events)
  File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 199, in __getattr__
    return getattr(self._obj_, attr)
  File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 455, in __getattr__
    return self._ApplyTypes_(*args)
  File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 446, in _ApplyTypes_
    return self._get_good_object_(
com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None,
0, -2147467259), None)

I am a newbie to python(started coding a few months ago).
This appears to be a fairly common error when COM objects are not
hooked up properly. Though I have not been able to find a solution or
the reason for this.
Thanks again for the explanation.All the information that I had
acquired now seems to fall into place. I was not aware about
doc_mod.HTMLAnchorEvents. Where can I find more documentation about
this?

Roger Upole wrote:
> Here's a few more lines that hook the document's onactivate event.
>
> import win32com.client
>
>
ie_mod=win32com.client.gencache.EnsureModule('{EAB22AC0-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B}'

> ,0, 1, 1)
>
doc_mod=win32com.client.gencache.EnsureModule('{3050F1C5-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B}'

> ,0 ,4, 0)
> class IE_Events(ie_mod.DWebBrowserEvents2):
>     def OnNavigateComplete2(self, pDisp, URL):
>         print 'OnNavigateComplete2:', URL
>
> class Doc_Events(doc_mod.HTMLAnchorEvents):
>     def Ononactivate(self):
>         print 'onactivate', self.activeElement.outerHTML
>
>
ie=win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents('InternetExplorer.Application',IE_Events)
> ie.Visible=1
> ie.Navigate('http://www.google.com')
>
> d=win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents(ie.Document, Doc_Events)
>
>     Roger
>
>
> <cal_2pac at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1116529345.146032.91880 at f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi
> > Thanks for the response and for the code.
> > However, I want to trap events like mouse click on the HTML
document
> > loaded by the web browser control. The code mentioned below
provides
> > events from the web browser control. I need to find out on which
> > particular HTML tag did the user click for example.
> > How do I find that out? There should be some way to refer to a
document
> > from a given web browser control and start receiving events from it
> >
> >
> > Roger Upole wrote:
> >> The two you'll need to run makepy for are Microsoft Internet
Controls
> > and
> >> Microsoft HTML object Library.  If you run them manually, you
should
> > be
> >> able to look at the generated code to get the guids.
> >> Here's a minimal example:
> >>
> >> import win32com.client
> >>
> >>
> >
ie_mod=win32com.client.gencache.EnsureModule('{EAB22AC0-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B}',0,
> >
> >> 1, 1)
> >> class IE_Events(ie_mod.DWebBrowserEvents2):
> >>     def OnNavigateComplete2(self, pDisp, URL):
> >>         print 'OnNavigateComplete2:', URL
> >>
> >>
> >
ie=win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents('InternetExplorer.Application',IE_Events)
> >> ie.Visible=1
> >> ie.Navigate('http://www.google.com')
> >>
> >>    hth
> >>       Roger
> >>
> >>
> >> <cal_2pac at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1116476411.853695.235670 at g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >> >I am trying to trap events from internet explorer eg. when user
> > clicks
> >> > on an html link - I need to get notified for that event.
> >> >
> >> > After looking through the newgroups / internet and reading
through
> >> > various sections in programming python on win32 - I understand
that
> >> > this can be done using DispatchWithEvents.
> >> > I have also referred to discussions on comp.lang.python
> >> >
> >
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a3c502d06412a5f8/0ee3083e71316da7?q=dispatchwithevents&rnum=43#0ee3083e71316da7
> >> >
> >> > and
> >> >
> >> >
> >
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1da0668794851296/5bcec1fda216c598?q=dispatchwithevents&rnum=19#5bcec1fda216c598
> >> >
> >> > So far - none of the newgroups postings report that IE events
were
> >> > trapped successfully (at least I could not find any). However,
> > there is
> >> > enough evidence that it can be done.
> >> > My problems at the moment:
> >> > a) The examples use early binding. However, I cannot get Python
> > makepy
> >> > to generate the code to force makepy process at run time - since
> > COM
> >> > makepy utility that I invoke from python win 32 does not have
any
> > entry
> >> > for internet explorer.
> >> > I tried to find the CLSID for IE
> > 3050F613-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B
> >> > but I get an exception
> >> > b) Also one of the examples suggest that following code should
work
> >> >
> >> >> mod = EnsureModule(...)
> >> >
> >> >> class MyEvents(mod.IDocumentEvents):
> >> >>    # your methods here....
> >> >
> >> >> handler = MyEvents(ie.document)
> >> >
> >> >> # handler should start recieving events.
> >> >
> >> > however, what CLSID is to be used in EnsureModule... . I tried
with
> > a
> >> > few but I always get the error 'NoneType' object has no
attribute
> >> > 'IDocumentEvents'
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > An example that 'works' will be very useful
> >> >
> >>
> >>
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