Thread: Setting focus to an IWebBrowser2

Good day!

Can anyone please tell me how to set the focus to my Web Browser?

I have an IWebBrowser2 in my app hosted inside a CAxWindow.

The problem is that when the application has loaded and the browser navigates to the start page, the user must click the mouse in the browser control window in order to get mousewheel scrolling and keyboard navigation to work.

I'd like to have this done automatically.

I need to make it so that when I click a button in my app and I send the pagedown and pageup key events or other keyboard events, the browser is focused so it receives them. No need to click at the start.

SetFocus has not worked, I'm not sure I got the DoVerb in IOleObject right, but I tried that one too.

You could do that, but it's kinda "not recommended"... but hey it's code... there are rules?

Looking at the interface docs it is possible to get the HWND of the browser window...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...27(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=VS.85).aspx

Did you try SetForegroundWindow() on that control?
How about sending it a WM_ACTIVATE message?
Or perhaps a WM_LBUTTONDOWN message?

A fake mouse event can be created with, well, mouse_event(). It's kernel code but it does work.
The same with keyboards keybd_event() for keystrokes.

wow..

thanks so much for the idea. yahhh it is a lame work-around, but it works anyhow. i don't know if there are rules against stupid code. but i tried eveything i could find. spent an entire weekend looking for it. no other solution worked. =(

so here, i sent the mouse event to the CAxWindow after Navigate() and there was no longer a need to click with the mouse. keyboard works then.

Code:

m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_LBUTTONDOWN, 0, NULL);
/* m_HostWnd is CAxWindow, i just placed NULL at the last part, i think it's supposed to be the mouse position.. */

thanks

i also used keybd_event... thanks

Code:

switch(scrollType)
	{
	case StepDown:
		keybd_event(VK_DOWN, 0xD0, 0,0);
		Sleep(100);
		keybd_event(VK_DOWN, 0xD0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0);
		break;
	case StepUp:
		keybd_event(VK_UP, 0xC8, 0,0);
		Sleep(100);
		keybd_event(VK_UP, 0xC8, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0);
		break;
	case PageDown:
		keybd_event(VK_NEXT, 0xD1, 0,0);
		Sleep(100);
		keybd_event(VK_NEXT, 0xD1, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0);
		break;
	case PageUp:
		keybd_event(VK_PRIOR, 0xC9, 0,0);
		Sleep(100);
		keybd_event(VK_PRIOR, 0xC9, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0);
		break;
	case ScrollBottom:
		keybd_event(VK_END, 0xCF, 0,0);
		Sleep(100);
		keybd_event(VK_END, 0xCF, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0);
		break;
	case ScrollTop:
		keybd_event(VK_HOME, 0xC7, 0,0);
		Sleep(100);
		keybd_event(VK_HOME, 0xC7, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0);
		break;
        }

added the LButtonUp and used this instead...

Code:

switch(scrollType)
	{
	case StepDown:
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYDOWN, VK_DOWN); 
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYUP, VK_DOWN); 
		break;
	case StepUp:
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYDOWN, VK_UP); 
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYUP, VK_UP); 
		break;
	case PageDown:
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYDOWN, VK_NEXT); 
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYUP, VK_NEXT); 
		break;
	case PageUp:
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYDOWN, VK_PRIOR); 
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYUP, VK_PRIOR); 
		break;
	case ScrollBottom:
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYDOWN, VK_END); 
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYUP, VK_END); 
		break;
	case ScrollTop:
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYDOWN, VK_HOME); 
		m_HostWnd.SendMessageToDescendants(WM_KEYUP, VK_HOME); 
		break;
	}

thanks commontater.


hahahahah
i will DEFINITELY try that and scare the hell out of everyone who touches my computer.