Hey there,
I am an admin of a large mailing list hosted by Yahoo Groups. A lot of people post messages with horrible quoting. Since I'm learning VB.NET I'm thinking about making a small utility app to help fix poorly quoted messages.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what I need to research, so that I can control an open Internet Explorer window with my program. On Yahoo Groups there is a "Pending" webpage I go to, where I can Edit messages and correct the subject line in one text box, and edit the body of the message in another text box.
I will need to read the data in those two text boxes into my program, make some changes to those Strings, then I guess copy/paste the data back into IE and into those edit boxes. Then somehow "click" the Update button to save the changes, let Yahoo Groups load a new page showing the updated message, then finally click the "Approve" message to send out the message.
I think I'll have to use some WindowsAPI calls of some sort (not sure what .dll etc to use, I haven't used WindowsAPIs much at all) but I'm at a loss as to what I need to start reading about... Any clues?
Another approach I was thinking about is trying to read the Yahoo Groups web page source code to try and figure out how to submit the necessary info it needs to update a message manually... without actually using an Internet Explorer window... but since I don't know that much about web programming for now I think remote controlling an IE window might be easier.
Thanks!
Jeremy Martin - jeremy@logic-users.org
I am an admin of a large mailing list hosted by Yahoo Groups. A lot of people post messages with horrible quoting. Since I'm learning VB.NET I'm thinking about making a small utility app to help fix poorly quoted messages.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what I need to research, so that I can control an open Internet Explorer window with my program. On Yahoo Groups there is a "Pending" webpage I go to, where I can Edit messages and correct the subject line in one text box, and edit the body of the message in another text box.
I will need to read the data in those two text boxes into my program, make some changes to those Strings, then I guess copy/paste the data back into IE and into those edit boxes. Then somehow "click" the Update button to save the changes, let Yahoo Groups load a new page showing the updated message, then finally click the "Approve" message to send out the message.
I think I'll have to use some WindowsAPI calls of some sort (not sure what .dll etc to use, I haven't used WindowsAPIs much at all) but I'm at a loss as to what I need to start reading about... Any clues?
Another approach I was thinking about is trying to read the Yahoo Groups web page source code to try and figure out how to submit the necessary info it needs to update a message manually... without actually using an Internet Explorer window... but since I don't know that much about web programming for now I think remote controlling an IE window might be easier.
Thanks!
Jeremy Martin - jeremy@logic-users.org
