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marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Hi,

In the IE shell used in the VDS browser extension that comes with VDS 5, the Tab does not work. Like in my own VDSSURFX dll.

Anybody knows a way around this? An api call or something?

Thanks.

jules · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject:

What do you mean? How do you get tabs in a browser?

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

I mean if you have a form, and you hit the tab key, it does not go to the next field like normally in IE.

jules · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:21 pm Post subject:

Ah. I see what you mean.

Possibly, it's because the extension has been compiled with the TabStop property = True, so you can tab to it, but if you hit Tab again, you probably tab from it, instead of tabbing within the document.

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

I tried using ONE of following with still no sucess:

window send,#Internet Explorer_Server,@tab()
window send,#Shell Embedding,@tab()
window send,#Shell DocObject View,@tab()

Any other suggestions?

Jules I am not quite sure what you mean.

jules · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:56 am Post subject:

If the tab isn't being obeyed by the browser when you physically hit the tab key, I don't think it is going to obey it when you send keystrokes either.

I was talking about a property of the Delphi component that the browser element uses. If you hit tab when the browser has focus, it could mean two things, move to the next dialog element in the window, or move to the next control on the web page. It looks to me as if the VDSBRW has been compiled so that the tab is obeyed as an instruction to move to the next element in the window, if you have more than one element on the window. But I'm not in a position to recompile the code so I can't change the property I mentioned to test this theory.

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Thanks Jules for the answer.. I will try to find a solution then