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"MrIBM" <GaRbrs6@aol.com> wrote in message
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>  I'm writing an application where I'm using a TRichEdit.  The text
> that I type into the RichEdit I want to send to the web browser
> whether it be Netscape, Explorer, America Online, Netzero, or
> some other, into an textbox of an website.  Does anyone know
> which components I need to do that, and which instructions I
> need to accomplish that?

Only IE directly supports what you are asking for.  The other browsers don't
support Automation.  You can programmably connect to the IWebBrowser2
interface of a running instance of IE and use its DOM interfaces, such as
IHTMLDocument2 and IHTMLEditElement, to programmably manipulate pages that
are loaded in the browser.

Opera does expose normal Edit and ComboBox controls, but you will have to
use the Win32 API to get to them.  There is an MDI client window within
Opera's main window that hosts each browser window, which in turn contains a
child window of class name "ContentWindow", which in turn contains a child
window of class "FRAMES2" for each frame on a site.  "FRAMES2" contains the
content of a single HTML page, including any edit fields, buttons, etc.
Given an HWND for Opera's main window, you can then use the Win32 API, such
as via the FindWindow/Ex() function, to drill down the layers to the
particular control that you want to manipulate and use the WM_SETTTEXT
message to change its content.

Netscape, as of v7.x anyway, does not provide any such access at all.

I don't have AOL, Netzero, or Firefox, so I can't tell you how they operate.


Gambit