How attach browser from handle?

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Hello to all!

Tell me please:
If to know only the browser handle and browser type and its title, how to make attach browser?

programmatically.

Thank!

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@Aleksey_Blokhin You can use Attach Browser Activity to attach a browser. See the documentation below.

When you indicate the browser, you need to select the tab content and not the browser window.

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Hi buddy @Aleksey_Blokhin

Welcome to UiPath buddy. That’s a great question to start with

1.Attach browser can be added next to open browser activity

  1. Once you add attach browser. Use a activity called get attribute and mention as title to get the title of the browser…and type to get the type attribute

Hope this would help you buddy
Cheers

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Unfortunately, these methods do not suit me.

For example, Google Chrome.

The web page contains the same title.

in other words: the selector contains the text for example,
<html app='chrome.exe' title='google.com' />

but they are all the same.

More than 3 robots are working on my process!

The only thing that is different for these browsers is the handle.

That’s why I ask, help attach it to the browser by its handle.

Attach Windows will not help with this.

Thank!!

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@Aleksey_Blokhin Could you try with the details provided in the below post?

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Good article!

But maybe there is a way to convert the uielement into the browser in order to transfer it to the attach browser scope, this is important!

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Open Browser activity outputs a UiBrowser (Browser) object. Not sure whether you have tried that. If not, give it a try.

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OK, For Example…

1. Step. Open Browser.
2. Step. Get handle of Browser → browser.Element.Get("hwnd")
3. Step. Save handle to asset
4. Step. Another process get asset with handle of browser
5. Step. Attach browser scope with this handle

My attempts:

Dim iWin As uipath.Core.Window = New uipath.Core.Window

iWin.Handle = New IntPtr(1903626)

Dim iBr As uipath.Core.Browser = New uipath.Core.Browser

Dim uiWebElement As uielement = New uielement

uiwebelement.FromWindow(iwin)

ibr.BrowserName = uipath.Core.BrowserName.Chrome
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Hi Aleksey, I also need to get window by Handler.

I’ve tried to edit window-selector attributes manually (for attach window activity) to include hwnd (actually, UI Explorer is able to recognize hwnd of windows, see UI Explorer->Property Explorer). Specifying hwnd as decimal or hex does not work. May be you can be lucky enough to solve it.

One option, which works, but is far not elegant: iterate through windows of your application:

  • use dynamic selector like “wnd app=‘chrome.exe’ idx=‘0’” (add opening and closing symbols. If I add them myself, forum thinks it’s an html tag :smiley: ) by variating idx value
  • for each acquired by “attach window” UiPath.Core.Window variable, you may compare its Handle with the desired one
  • error handling, when window with such idx does not exist => stop looping
  • further steps are trivial

I guess, something like that should be possible within Invoke Code, however, I don’t know, how to access all available windows there.

If you find a better solution, let me know – it would be very helpful.

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Lol, I’ve eventually found the solution. And it is one-liner:

  • wnd = New Window(handler) //if handler is IntPtr
  • wnd = New Window(new IntPtr(handler)) //if handler is integer
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Yes, is it!!! See top:wink:

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Could you please share your solution?