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Internet Explorer Making IE Window Active (on top)
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00516540
Message ID:
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>Hi
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>If all you want to do is go to a site, then you could use shellexecute to launch IE
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>The last parameter to this API sets the window state, ir maximized, hidden, minimized etc.
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>you wil of course need to load the API before you use it.
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>lnReturnValue=shellexecute(0,"OPEN","www.mysite.com","","",1)
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>This should bring IE to the front.
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>But if you need to manipulate the web pages in some way you will have to use IE as a com object.
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>Hope this helps
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>Regards
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Hi Steven,
That does work, however, I want a new instance of IE. That uses an existing IE, if available. Not being familiar with ShellExecute, is there a parm that will spawn a new one?
Bill Armbrecht
VFP MCP
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