IEFormFill Crashes MS

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fightcancer
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IEFormFill Crashes MS

Post by fightcancer » Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:39 pm

Why does this macro crash the trial version of MS?

IEGetFromURL>http://www.pof.com/,myIERef
IEFormFill>myIERef,,,message,test,0,result

On one computer with a registered version of MS14 installed I get the error, "System call failed." On another PC w/o the registered version of MS installed, MS hangs and I have to use Task Manager to close it.

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Marcus Tettmar
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Re: IEFormFill Crashes MS

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:58 am

Just tested this on my machine (Windows 10) with the registered version. Also tested both the registered version and trial version on a fresh VM running XP. I get the same results on all three.

With IE open at pof.com the macro runs without error, but the IEFormFill just times out because there's no matching input field. I guess you are logged in and at a page where that field exists. But I'm on the main home page. However, there is no error and I get the same results between registered and trial versions.

There's absolutely no reason why the trial version would cause different results. The issue is more likely a problem with your IE. Might be worth trying to reinstall/update IE?
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