Retrieving IE5 Addressess

[CSagan]

Anyone know to retrieve an URL from IE5 and viceversa (send an url from VB to IE5?

Is it possible with DDE?

thanx for your help

Option Explicit
Private Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" (ByVal hWnd1 As Long, ByVal hWnd2 As Long, ByVal lpsz1 As String, ByVal lpsz2 As String) As Long
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long
Private Const WM_GETTEXT = &HD
Private Const WM_GETTEXTLENGTH = &HE

Private Sub FindIt(ByVal sClassName As String)
On Error GoTo CallErrorA
    lhWnd = FindWindowEx(lhWnd, 0, sClassName, vbNullString)
End Sub

Private Function GetAddressText() As String
On Error GoTo CallErrorA
    Dim usText() As Byte ' That's right, a byte array
    Dim iPos As Integer
    lhWnd = 0
    Call FindIt("IEFrame")
    Call FindIt("WorkerA")
    Call FindIt("ReBarWindow32")
    Call FindIt("ComboBoxEx32")
    Call FindIt("ComboBox")
    Call FindIt("Edit")
    ReDim usText(0 To SendMessage(lhWnd, WM_GETTEXTLENGTH, 0, ByVal 0&) + 1) ' +1 for Null Char
    If UBound(usText) = 1 Then
        GetAddressText = ""
    Else
        ' Length in first word:
        usText(0) = UBound(usText) And 255
        usText(1) = UBound(usText) \ 256
        Call SendMessage(lhWnd, WM_GETTEXT, UBound(usText), usText(0))
        ' Convert to string:
        GetAddressText = StrConv(usText, vbUnicode)
        ' Get rid of Null Char:
        iPos = InStr(GetAddressText, vbNullChar)
        If iPos > 0 Then GetAddressText = Left(GetAddressText, iPos - 1)
    End If
End Function

'To Use: use GetAddressText

I just found this code..not sure if it works. I can't check because my hard drive crashed and I have to re-install everything. But if it does work, hope that's what you were looking for.