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
Quote from: tbohon on February 02, 2007, 02:16:01 PM
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...
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 ... ;D
Tnx.
Tom
Quote from: tbohon on February 02, 2007, 02:48:05 PM
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.
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