Download a file in IE using Selenium

Question

OK, so I am trying to export a file using Selenium. My browser is IE. When I click on the export button a native windows dialogue box comes up.

Image of the pop up

Answer 1

So, the problem was that the cursor gets stuck sometimes when you call the click() function. So as a solution I used the Robot class to move my cursor and click on the export button and then I used Robot class to press Alt+S, which is a keyboard shortcut to save a file in IE.

To click on the button I used

try
{
    Robot robot = new Robot();
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    robot.mouseMove(coordinates.getX()+100,coordinates.getY()-400); 
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    robot.mousePress( InputEvent.BUTTON1_DOWN_MASK);
    robot.mouseRelease(InputEvent.BUTTON1_DOWN_MASK);
}
catch (AWTException e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}

To get the coordinates in the above snippet I used the following line

Point coordinates = driver.findElement(By.id("id")).getLocation();
System.out.println("Co-ordinates"+coordinates); 

And to press Alt+S I used the following code

try
{
     Robot robot = new Robot();
     robot.setAutoDelay(250);
     robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
     Thread.sleep(1000);
     robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_S);
     robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
     robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_S);
}
catch (AWTException e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}