Need Help on ActiveX Control

[manish patel]

Hello All Is it possible to get Handle to the Container window(Internet Explorer) of the ActiveX Control? Thanks in advance

Manish Patel. B.E. - Information Technology.

[Stephen Hewitt]

The IOleInPlaceFrame[^] interface is one of the key interfaces used by the ActiveX control to communicate with its container (use the IOleInPlaceSite::GetWindowContext[^] to get hold of it). It's derived from IOleWindow[^] which has a method called IOleWindow::GetWindow[^]: this should enable you to get the job done.

Steve

modified on Friday, February 29, 2008 3:07 AM

[manish patel]

Thanks for your kind reply. Actualy i want to minimize internet explorer wheneve my activex is loaded in IE. I am using this: ::ShowWindow(GetWindow(GW_OWNER)->GetSafeHwnd(), SW_MINIMIZE); But This function gets fail. Is it correct way to do this? please provide me any solution to it. Once again Thanks Steve

Manish Patel. B.E. - Information Technology.

[Stephen Hewitt]

You don’t mention what framework you’re using (if any)?

Steve

[manish patel]

No, i am not using any framework My activex is in pure MFC.

Manish Patel. B.E. - Information Technology.

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

manish.patel wrote:

No, i am not using any framework My activex is in pure MFC.

ROTFL. :laugh:

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[manish patel]

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

ROTFL.

What you want to say??

Manish Patel. B.E. - Information Technology.

[Rajkumar R]

I am also new to these abbreviation, but the WordWeb free dictionary helps me, ROTFL - Rolling on the floor laughing. I guess, he meant MFC is also a framework.

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

MFC actually *is* a framework. :)

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

[manish patel]

Thanks for your Guidance. Up to now I am considering MFC as a Microsoft Foundation Classes. I don’t know It is a “Framework”

Manish Patel. B.E. - Information Technology.

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

manish.patel wrote:

Up to now I am considering MFC as a Microsoft Foundation Classes.

You're just looking at the abbreviation. You need to read up a little bit to understand that MFC is more than a bunch of classes. For example, you don't write a main() function for a program that you write in MFC, do you? So, does that mean there is no main function? You get to build a doc/view app with menus, windows, print previewing capability, etc., just with mouse clicks! Can you do it just with a few classes alone? The framework does everything for you behind the scenes. :) If that interests you, I'd recommend a few books - Programming Windows with MFC, MFC Internals. Also, see MFC in Wikipedia[^] Rajesh

[CPallini]

Didn't ever read MFC documentation? It is full of sentences such as "The framework will call...". Also many MFC global functions, like AfxGetApp, have the Afx (i.e. Application Framework EXtension) prefix. :)

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