Failproof Wait for IE to load

Question

Is there a foolproof way for the script to wait till the Internet explorer is completely loaded?

Both oIE.Busy and / or oIE.ReadyState are not working the way they should:

Set oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.application")

    oIE.Visible = True
    oIE.navigate ("http://technopedia.com")

    Do While oIE.Busy Or oIE.ReadyState <> 4: WScript.Sleep 100: Loop  

    ' <<<<< OR >>>>>>

    Do While oIE.ReadyState <> 4: WScript.Sleep 100: Loop

Any other suggestions?

Answer 1

Try this one, it helped me to solve similar problem with IE once:

Set oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.application")
oIE.Visible = True
oIE.navigate ("http://technopedia.com")
Do While oIE.ReadyState = 4: WScript.Sleep 100: Loop
Do While oIE.ReadyState <> 4: WScript.Sleep 100: Loop
' example ref to DOM
MsgBox oIE.Document.GetElementsByTagName("div").Length

UPD: Drilling down IE events I found that IE_DocumentComplete is the last event before the page is actually ready. So there is one more method to detect when a web page is loaded (note that you have to specify the exact destination URL which may differ from the target URL eg in case of redirection):

option explicit
dim ie, targurl, desturl, completed

set ie = wscript.createobject("internetexplorer.application", "ie_")
ie.visible = true

targurl = "http://technopedia.com/"
desturl = "http://technopedia.com/"

' targurl = "http://tumblr.com/"
' desturl = "https://www.tumblr.com/" ' redirection if you are not login
' desturl = "https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard" ' redirection if you are login

completed = false
ie.navigate targurl
do until completed
    wscript.sleep 100
loop
' your code here
msgbox ie.document.getelementsbytagname("*").length
ie.quit

sub ie_documentcomplete(byval pdisp, byval url)
    if url = desturl then completed = true
end sub