I am working with VB6 WebBrowser, Here i need to open a vb6 form when user click any particular link of WebBrowser
\'s link like
In HTML
To do this with a button instead of a link, add the button to the document and a bit of javascript:
<input type="button" id="MyButton1_id" style="cursor: pointer" name=MyButton1 value="Show It!">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
Sub MyButton1_OnClick()
location.href = "event:button1_show"
End Sub
</SCRIPT>
Then in the BeforeNavigate2
event:
Public Sub webBrowser_BeforeNavigate2(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant, flags As Variant, TargetFrameName As Variant, PostData As Variant, Headers As Variant, Cancel As Boolean)
Select Case LCase$(URL)
Case "event:button1_show"
Cancel = True
Form2.Show
Case "event:other_stuff"
'other stuff to do, etc
End Select
End Sub
Pick a better naming scheme like:
<a href="#vb-showform2">Click To show VB6 Form2</a>
<a href="#vb-waffles">Waffles</a>
Then intercept link clicks via the BeforeNavigate2
event, look at the url and if it matches #vb-*
run your code:
Private Sub WebBrowserCtrl_BeforeNavigate2(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant, Flags As Variant, TargetFrameName As Variant, PostData As Variant, Headers As Variant, Cancel As Boolean)
'// get #vb-XXX command from url
Dim pos As Long: pos = InStrRev(URL, "#vb-")
If pos Then
Cancel = True '// stop default navigation
URL = Mid$(URL, pos + 4)
Select Case LCase$(URL)
Case "showform2": Form2.Show
'...
Case "waffles": MsgBox "Waffles."
Case Else: MsgBox "Unknown Command " & URL
End Select
End If
End Sub
Instead of putting the form name inside the href
attribute, I believe a better method would be to set a your own data attribute
and use that, it seems to me a much cleaner way to do such a task.
In my example, inside the href
tag i'm using the classic void(0)
to prevent the link navigation, otherwise your external link to VB forms could break the browser history with unexpected results.
To use the WebBrowser
control, You should have already added in your VB project a reference to the Microsoft Internet Controls
, what you need next is to add a reference to the Microsoft HTML Library
, the type library contained inside the mshtml.tlb
file.
Assuming your WebBrowser
control is called "WebBrowser1", and you have three additional forms called "Form1", "Form2" and "Form3", in the form where you placed the WebBrowser
control put this piece of code:
Private HTMLdoc As MSHTML.HTMLDocument
' Create a Web Page to test the navigation '
' You can skip this phase after your test are successfully executed '
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim HTML As String
WebBrowser1.Navigate "about:blank"
HTML = "<html>"
HTML = HTML & "<title>Open a VB Form from a Link</title>"
HTML = HTML & "<body>"
HTML = HTML & "<a data-vb='Form1' href='javascript:void(0)'>Click To show Form1</a>"
HTML = HTML & "</br>"
HTML = HTML & "<a data-vb='Form2' href='javascript:void(0)'>Click To show Form2</a>"
HTML = HTML & "</br>"
HTML = HTML & "<a data-vb='Form3' href='javascript:void(0)'>Click To show Form3</a>"
HTML = HTML & "</br>"
HTML = HTML & "</body>"
HTML = HTML & "</html>"
WebBrowser1.Document.Write HTML
End Sub
' This will load and show the form specified in the data-vb attribute of the link '
Private Sub WebBrowser1_BeforeNavigate2(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant, Flags As Variant, TargetFrameName As Variant, PostData As Variant, Headers As Variant, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim frm As Form, FormName as String
If Not (WebBrowser1.Document Is Nothing) Then
Set HTMLdoc = WebBrowser1.Document
FormName = vbNullString & HTMLdoc.activeElement.getAttribute("data-vb")
If Not FormName = vbNullString Then
Set frm = Forms.Add(FormName)
frm.Show
End If
End If
End Sub
An additional note:
You can get the content of the clicked link in following way:
HTMLdoc.activeElement.toString
Obviously, for all links in my test page, the result will be:
javascript:void(0)
which is the same as the URL parameter of the BeforeNavigate event.
Another useful information which you can get from the HTMLDocument
and wouldn't be available in the BeforeNavigate
event is, for example:
HTMLdoc.activeElement.outerHTML
the result will be:
<A href="javascript:void(0)" data-vb="Form2">Click To show Form2</A>