Language that control IE & analyzes images in IE
 

Hi,

I'm looking to learn a programming language that can have access to Internet Explorer's controls easily (window controls, manu commands and the DOM) and also have a graphics library so that I can analyze images shown my browser (reading pixels, etc). It'd be good if it can be made into a standalone exe appication. I know that a lot (almost all) languages can do this, but I'm looking for the easiest one to learn. I already work with Javascript and Php, so it'd be nice if this language can be C-like.

any advices appreciated

thx

xudzh

The most important question is what are you trying to do? There may be an easier way that going through all the requirements you suggested because that'll take quite a bit of serious coding.

I just thought of automating some boring web tasks I do everyday

for that you could use firefox and greasemonkey. See http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ for more info.

Yes, thank you for your post, and firefox would do in most of the cases. But I have special uses for this one so I have to use IE. Any other suggestions?

Would VB do? Or .NET framework? I know these are not C-like, but I'll do whatever necessary...

(oh btw, greasemonkey never worked for me, even when I download other people's scripts, but off topic here :) )

well if you want to use .NET you could use C# (so that's the language is C like).

What about Jscript? Since I already work with javascript, will Jscript be easier for me? and both Jscript and C# can read images in IE by accessing .NET 's graphics class, right?