VB App Code Running Faster then Web Page Im trying to autonavigate.

[RookPSU]

I created a VB "screen scrape" application that programmatically navigates a website in effort to extract data from a page that is a few links deep. The problem is the code obviously runs 10 times faster then that browser so the app ends up running page 4 code on page 2 because the browser cant keep up. I tried using function with this code in it:

while webbrowser1.busy
do events
wend

I also threw a boolean in the document_complete and before_navigate subs to identify when the doc is loading and when it is finished but all to no avail. If I step through the program it works fine, but at normal speed it runs in total disarray. Any ideas??!?

 

[vb5prgrmr]

Try something like this...
[tt]
Wait = False
WB.Navigate "your place"
Do While Wait = False
DoEvents
'I have even added a Sleep 1 in here
Loop
'do rest code
[/tt]

then in the document complete event set wait = true (of visa versa how ever!).

Good Luck

 

[jeepxo]

Try the INET control object in VB.

Dim webpage as new INET
Dim webPageHTML as string

webPageHTML = webpage.Open("URL&quot

Now you have the html stored as a string and you can parse through it.

you can't execute the next line of code until it has finished opening the page with the INET control.