I have the window handle - how can i assign it?

[George J]

I am doing something weird and wonderful (scrambling in the dark) and have the hwnd of a particular window.


Say I have found the handle for the active window and it's a webpage.
Dim myDoc as HTMLDocument
set myDoc = hwnd
then I can access the HTML elements on myDoc

How can I make the code understand that myDoc should be the activewindow? I am trying to extract some URL data on the page.

I found some code that looked promising here but I can't amend it to work for me.
Hope this makes sense.

 

[John_w]

Loop through Shell.Windows and when it finds an IE window see if the IE.hwnd is the same as your hwnd.

 

[George J]

Thanks for that John.

I was hoping to try to get some information from a Chrome popup, but it doesn't look very likely. I managed to get the Window Text returned, but i guess the Shell API won't help with the contents of the window.

Not sure what to do next - will need to think about the steps and process the user will need to take to bypass this. It's going to be messy

 

[John_w]

I assumed you were using IE because your code uses HTMLDocument, hence Shell.Windows -> IE -> IE.Document -> HTMLDocument to get text inside the window. AFAIK the HTML Object Library only works with IE, not Chrome or any other browser.