On Apr 12, 10:36 am, David Mullet <david.mul... / gmail.com> wrote: > sean_n wrote: > > Here's an example of using autoit inside of ruby. > > > require 'win32ole' > > autoit = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control") > > autoit.WinActivate('Yahoo!') > > > So if this works, how come this doesn't work? > > > require 'win32ole' > > autoit = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control") > > obj=autoit.ObjGet('','InternetExplorer.Application') > > > How do I call the ObjGet() function? In other words, what COM object > > contains that method? > > I can't offer much help with regard to AutoIt, but you can connect to an > existing instance of IE using win32ole and the Shell object's Windows > collection: > > ie = nil > for window in WIN32OLE.new('Shell.Application').Windows > begin > if window.Document.Title =~ /Yahoo/ > ie = window > end > rescue > end > end This seems not to work. require 'win32ole' ie = nil WIN32OLE.new('Shell.Application').Windows.each do |window| p window.FullName p window.Name begin title = window.Document.Title p title if title =~ /Internet Explorer/ ie = window end rescue end end p ie --- output --- "C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\IEXPLORE.EXE" "Microsoft Internet Explorer" "" nil