Web Browser Control

[Erik Johnson]

Anybody who knows-

I have a WB control in my app that only accesses local files in offline mode. My app modifies CSS and writes them back to the drive. I would like to refresh the page in the WB Control to show the changes.

I tried the Refresh() method, which does nothing. I don't want to have to re-navigate to the page, because you then lose the position you were at in the page.

Any ideas?

Thanks-
Erik

[zak2zak]

May be this helps...
U Need to Navigate Back to The Same Page!
You won't loose the locations if the URL is kept somewhere
In a Control or Variables.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    With WebB
    .Navigate "http://www.anywhere.com"
    End With
End Sub

[andreys]

WebBrowser1.Refresh should work just fine, but anyway here is another way to do it.

WebBrowser1.Document.location.reload

[Erik Johnson]

I tried both of these methods. Unfortunately, they both still take me back to the top of the html page when they Navigate() or reload().

Is there any way to get/set a property that tells you how far down in a page you are, that you can set when the page reloads?

Thanks for your suggestions-
Erik

[Erik Johnson]

BTW, I am using VB.NET, if that makes a difference.

Thanks-
Erik

Edited & added: Oh yeah, and also, I AM able to refresh it manually by right clicking and choosing "Refresh" when the app is running. Why won't the code do this?

I even tried doing a sendkey in the code:

System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send("{f5}")

While manually hitting F5 when the program runs takes you back to the right spot in the page, using the sendkey command causes it to go back to the top of the page, yet again!

[Eras3r]

Originally posted by Erik Johnson
I tried both of these methods. Unfortunately, they both still take me back to the top of the html page when they Navigate() or reload().

Is there any way to get/set a property that tells you how far down in a page you are, that you can set when the page reloads?

Thanks for your suggestions-
Erik

Refresh is how to do it..... and I dont believe what you want is possible (at least built into the web control). you might be able to get the scroll bar value with SendMessage and then reset that value after u refresh the page.....

[Erik Johnson]

How exactly would I get the scroll bar value with SendMessage? Will I have a hard time trying to figure that out if I don't already know how to do it?

Thanks for your help-
ERik

[Eras3r]

check out the WM_* messages in the MSDN and look for the one you want (if it exists) ..... Another option would be to subclass the webbrowser control and intercept the WM_VSCROLL / WM_HSCROLL messages and keep saving the last position.

[Erik Johnson]

On a whim, I tried this:

WBControl.ExecWB(SHDocVw.OLECMDID.OLECMDID_REFRESH, SHDocVw.OLECMDEXECOPT.OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER)

AND IT WORKS!!!

Thanks-
Erik