@MoonMan wrote:
Well it sure seemed like that should have worked but no luck. When I try to add the FormElement with submit in my VI after I wire in the reference wire it automaticaly changes to a regular Element. Then it wont run because submit is not an option for Element, I have to change the submit back to click.
I dont understand, it really seems like the click should work, and it seems like the submit should have also worked. Getting text into the different fields was easy enough.
Did you try my modified version? That uses IHTMLFormElement properly. If you then change the element name from "Send Message" to "txtmsg" (the name of the form), it appears to work - or at least, it pops up an advertising window in Internet Explorer (I didn't fill in any of the fields as I don't want to give out my phone number or email address to some random website, especially one that pops up advertising).
When you try to change to FormElement, what steps are you taking? Are you changing the type of the "type" input to Variant to Data? You'll need to right-click on that constant, Select ActiveX Class... and choose IHTMLFormElement.
As a LabVIEW style note, you should close all the ActiveX references you open. That means all the references (IHTMLFormElement, IHTMLElementCollection, etc) need a Close Reference when you're done with them.
Again, I think sending an email is a better way to send a text message from within LabVIEW, and for that matter, you might be able to find a better website for doing it. TMobile allows their subscribers to send SMS messages through their website and it appears that AT&T provides a similar service; Verizon provides a web page to send SMS to their users.
EDIT: by the way, the submit button is not a named element (it has a "Value" property but not a "Name" property) so you can't get a reference to it by name. If you probe the item output of the IHTMLElementCollection property node, you'll see it returns an empty variant, which is why "click" has no effect.
