Re: manipulating Opera and/or Netscape from Visual Basic. HELP!

From: J French (erewhon_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:01:05 +0000 (UTC)

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:33:19 -0500, <imadog@optonline.net> wrote:

>OK, you were both very helpful.... Let me put it another way....
>
>In Visual Basic I want to write a small app. This is what I want the app to
>do:
>
>I run the app and its a small form box with 3 buttons in it:
>-I click a button and it opens an Opera browser window (it runs Opera)
>-I click another button and it navigates the open Opera window to any url
>(lets say www.yahoo.com)
>-I click another button and it Reloads/Refreshes the open Opera window one
>time.
>
>thats it.... if someone can tell me how to do that, then I think I can work
>it from there....

I have no idea about Opera, but Netscape and IE both used to support
some form of DDE - it was all rather obscure and shaky

You might be able to get what you want by snooping on the various
controls in Opera and simulating things like Button Clicks using
SendMessage

Hmm looking at IE the 'buttons' are all one 'ToolBar32'
- but [F5] forces a reload/refresh

And the URL is an 'Edit' so it should respond to WM_SETTEXT