Set Focus to Internet Explorer Object in Visual Basic

Question

Does anybody know how to set focus onto an IE object with Visual Basic? I\'ve tried myieobject.SetFocus, but the compiler errors with this statement.

Answer 1

Try this. Open Internet explorer by shell command , where you can define focus(this is focused and small windows) and after that catch that shell/explorer window and define it as Internet explorer object. Maybe there is better way than sleep to wait.

Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)

Sub call_IE()
Dim IE As InternetExplorer
Dim htmldoc As HTMLDocument

Set IE = Open_Focused_explorer()
IE.Navigate "google.com"
Set htmldoc = IE.Document

End Sub

Function Open_Focused_explorer() As InternetExplorer
Dim shellWins As ShellWindows

'if windows are 64bit IE is on diferent location
#If Win64 Then
     Shell "C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe", vbNormalFocus
#Else
    Shell "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe", vbNormalFocus
#End If


 'wait until explorer is full loaded
 Sleep 4000

 On Error Resume Next
    'create collection of all explorers
  Set shellWins = New ShellWindows

    If shellWins.Count > 0 Then
        ' Get last one
        Set Open_Focused_explorer = shellWins.Item(shellWins.Count - 1)
    End If
On Error GoTo 0

End Function