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 :)
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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 :)
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.Code: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