Webbrowser - Detect Page Downloaded

[bedowin]

I need to be able to call a function when a document is completed downloading.

I have tried this:

Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentComplete(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant)

Call MyFunction

End Sub

But, MyFunction calls performs and operation and then calls another webpage. But, the Private Sub Document Complete seems to be getting ahead of itself and not waiting for the page to completely load.

Is there any way I can truly wait to call that function after the page has fully loaded?

[Bloodeye]

Try something like this:

Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentComplete(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant)
 
    If (pDisp is WebBrowser1.Object) Then
        If URL = "http://www.the-url-where-you-want-to-call-your-function.com"
            Call MyFunction
        End If
    End If
 
End Sub

[bedowin]

This sorta works:

Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentComplete(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant)

   If (pDisp Is WebBrowser1.Object) Then
      Call MyFunction
   End If

End Sub

But, it doesn't appear to work with detecting a page with frames.

Can anyone assist?

[bedowin]

Thanks Bloodeye, but the URL is constantly changing? Is there another way?

And, the URL is hidden the frame of the page loading.

[Bloodeye]

If you just go with:

Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentComplete(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant)
 
   If (pDisp Is WebBrowser1.Object) Then
      Call MyFunction
   End If
 
End Sub

This is all you need. When the condition (pDisp Is WebBrowser1.Object) is met then the web-page including all the frames within have completely loaded.

[Skitchen8]

can't you just use the document_complete function... why do you need the other code??

[Skitchen8]

found it

Private Sub WebBrowser1_DownloadComplete()

End Sub

[bedowin]

No, that's not it.

That will crash the program. That Sub isn't intended to detect when a page in the frame is finished loading.

[Skitchen8]

ok... sry haven't used the browser control in awhile, im working on making my own

[Bloodeye]

bedowin -

What is it your trying to do with your function?

[bedowin]

The Function takes the HTML source of the page loaded and parses out necessary information.

My problem is that sometimes the server doesn't return the page in a timely manner, so that even putting in a wait event for 10 seconds might not be sufficient to make sure the framed page is loaded completely.

I just want some assurance that it is loaded, and am wondering if there is a way to accomplish this.

[nabeels786]

my prog had to do the same thing...Bloodeyes method works..

[bedowin]

yes.. his method would work, if I knew the ever-changing URL.

In this case I do not.

However, I have just solved this problem I believe.

What I did was do a search for footer text that appears on each loaded page. If it appears, then my parsing code runs, if not then it attempts to reload the page complete and will not run the parsing code until it finds the footer text.

woohoo!