[AccessD] How do I Grab the picture from the web page

Hi John, 

I've just finished a similar project for downloading
all pdf and xls from a site and the iron is still hot.

I know its volunteer - just send the relevant access info
to my address and I'll get your pics for you.

Michael R Mattys
Business Process Developers
www.mattysconsulting.com


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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 8:45 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] How do I Grab the picture from the web page

I am using the Microsoft web control to navigate to web pages and parse out
information for my inmate checkout program.  Part of the information is a
picture that I have to click on to view.  I am a visual kinda guy so it
would be really nice if I could get the picture and store it locally so that
I could see the picture of the guy without having to go click on that link
every time as I scroll through the records.

The first question is, can I click buttons in the web page using this web
control?  The following is what I assume to be button code:

	<table width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5">
		<tr align="center">
			<td colspan="6" align="center">
				<a
href="pagelistoffendersearchresults.do?method=list&page=1&searchOffenderId=1
119894" 
class="actionbutton">Back To Search Results</a>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</table><br>


The second question is, how can I extract the picture.  The following is
what I assume to be the picture control.

							<table border="0"
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="innerdisplaytable">
								<tr>

									<td
bgcolor="#FFFACD" colspan="2"><img class="spacertop"
src="images/spacertbl.gif" 
width="1" height="2" alt=""/></td>
								</tr>
								<tr>
									<td
bgcolor="#999999" colspan="2"><img class="spacerbottom"
src="images/spacertbl.gif" 
width="1" height="1" alt=""/></td>
								</tr>
								<tr>
									<td>
	
<table class="picturediv">
	
<tr>

	
<td>
	
<table class="picturetable">
	
<td>
	
<a href="#" class="photolink" id="dopobscurelink" 
onClick="javascript:unobscure('dopobscurelink','dopPicture','viewpicture.do?
method=view&showDate=N&pictureType=I&offenderID=1119894','viewdetailbutton')
;return
false;"><img align="center" id="dopPicture" src="images/silhouette.gif"
/></a>
	
</td>
	
</table>
	
</td>
	
</tr>
	
</table>

	
</td>
									<td>


Sorry for all of the extra "stuff" but not being a web kinda guy I don't
really know what is necessary and what is fluff.

I manage to grab the "tables" collection and iterate through the tables
looking inside each for specific stuff to pull data out into my application.
What I don't know is whether I can add another of these web page controls
and feed it just a specific part of the whole to get the picture, or whether
I can click a button, or how to g about getting this picture.

Can anyone help me with this?

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John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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