C# Click Gmail Refresh Button

eric martin

I am writing a simple personal app that has a browser control and I want it to automatically "Refresh" gmail to check it more often than it does by default. There are monkey scripts that do this but I'm trying to add my personal style to it.

Anyhow, I've looked around and found everything but what I can do in csharp using the browser control.

I found this:

       // Link the ID from the web form to the Button var
       theButton = webBrowser_Gmail.Document.GetElementById("Refresh");

        // Now do the actual click.
       theButton.InvokeMember("click");

But it comes back with null in 'theButton' so it doesn't invoke anything.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks again!

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Sam Hobbs15y ago
The error message says what it means and means what it says. You are trying to add another event handler to the list of event handlers.

Please show us at least the line of code that causes the error.
eric martin15y ago
When I try either of the options that you suggested I get the following error:

error CS0079: The event 'System.Windows.Forms.HtmlElement.Click' can only appear on the left hand side of += or -=
Suthish Nair15y ago
something like this..

webBrowser_Gmail.document.getElementById("Refresh").click();

or directly

document.getElementById("Refresh").click();