Can't call method "tagName" on an undefined valuel/lib/Win32/IEAutomation.pm line 488

[tgkprog]

hi i'm trying to use Win32::IEAutomation to automate clickbank.com navigation and page saving



i can login and go to the https://www.clickbank.com/account/showTransactions.htm
page but cannot get the startDate text control

use Win32::IEAutomation;
my $mainPageURL = "https://www.clickbank.com/login.htm";
my $ie = Win32::IEAutomation->new(visible=>0 , maximize => 1, warnings => 1 );
$ie->gotoURL($mainPageURL);
$ie->WaitforDone;
$ie->getTextBox('name:',"nick")->SetValue("tgkprog2");
$ie->getTextBox('name:',"pass")->SetValue("LFWLQ8XX");
$ie->getButton('name:',"login")->Click();
$ie->WaitforDone;
my $mainMenuPage;
my $stmtsPage;
my $txnsPage;
if($ie->URL() eq "https://www.clickbank.com/account/mainMenu.htm"){
   $mainMenuPage = $ie->Content;
   $ie->gotoURL("https://www.clickbank.com/account/showTransactions.htm");
   $ie->WaitforDone;
   if($ie->URL() eq "https://www.clickbank.com/account/showTransactions.htm"){
    open FH, '>c:\\tmp\\a.txt' or die $!;
    #flock FH, LOCK_EX or die $!;
    print FH $ie->Content() or die $!;
    close FH or die $!;   
     $txsPage = $ie->Content;
     print STDERR "at 33aftertext: Start\n ";
     my $txt1 = $ie->getTextBox('aftertext:',"Start:");
     print STDERR "at 34 got obj  \n";
     print STDERR $txt1 ;
     print STDERR "\n is null " ;
     print STDERR $txt1 == null ;
     print STDERR " right  " ;
     $ie->getTextBox('aftertext:',"Start")->SetValue("2008-02-01");
     $ie->getTextBox('name:',"endDate")->SetValue("2008-02-05");
     $ie->getButton('value:',"Go")->Click();
 
 
   }  
}   
 

this user id is for testing only

i get error

at 33aftertext: Start
Can't call method "tagName" on an undefined value at C:/aps/xampp4/perl/lib/Win32/IEAutomation.pm line 488.

so it cant even get a handle to the object
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print STDERR "at 33aftertext: Start\n ";
my $txt1 = $ie->getTextBox('aftertext:',"Start:");

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