Browser Handling Question

[tbohon]

I have embedded a browser control in my main window and have it working just fine.  However, I don't want it to show at all in the final program - instead, I want a rich edit box to show while the browser runs in the background, hidden from view.

Is this possible? 

I've tried several different combinations:  hiding the rich edit box, attaching the browser (which is the exact same size and in the exact same location) and then un-hiding the rich edit box; minimizing the browser; etc.  None of them work - the browser is always visible.  I haven't tried putting the browser in a separate window hidden behind the main window ... but, before I do that, I want to ensure that I haven't missed anything.

Thanks.

Tom

[Steve Rusich]

I have embedded a browser control in my main window and have it working just fine.  However, I don't want it to show at all in the final program - instead, I want a rich edit box to show while the browser runs in the background, hidden from view.

Why do you want to have a hidden browser control? The browser is meant as an input/output control and hiding it seems to negate its function...

[tbohon]

I agree.  However, I've been asked to come up with a way to visit internal websites and just collect ('screen scrape') certain values so my thought was to have a hidden browser doing the visiting and the rich edit box displaying the results.

Just the guy in the yellow rainslicker standing at the foot of the hill here ... 

Tnx.

Tom

[Steve Rusich]

I agree.  However, I've been asked to come up with a way to visit internal websites and just collect ('screen scrape') certain values so my thought was to have a hidden browser doing the visiting and the rich edit box displaying the results.

You can create 2 windows of the same size and same position on the screen. Put the browser in one window and the edit control in the other. Then use the SHOWWINDOW mywnd, @SWHIDE command to hide the browser window.

[tbohon]

That was my next option.

Now I have to figure out how to save the screen in the browser as text so I can parse it so I can format it so the managers can look at it ... and then ask me what it means and why is it in their email box? 

Thanks, Steve!

Tom