how do you maximize an internetexplorer object??

[Painkiller]

Hi all,

I'm trying to open an html document by creating a new internetexplorer object. All goes well but I don't know how to maximize the IE. When I use the fullscreen property the whole browsing area is displayed fullscreen, e.g. you can't see the addressbar, the menu, the toolbar or even the windows taskbar. Anybody know how to solve this? I'm using the following code:

Dim IE As InternetExplorer 'IE as internet explorer object
Dim StrAppPath As String
Const HelpFile As String = "test.html"

Set IE = New InternetExplorer 'new instance

StrAppPath = App.Path + "\"

'open html-document
IE.Navigate (StrAppPath & HelpFile)
IE.Visible = True 'show html-document

much appreciated.

 

[kaleatul]

Hi there,
you can try and call the "ShowWindow" API Function to do so.


SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3
SW_SHOWMINIMIZED = 2

When you want to Maximize the IE Window just say...
Call ShowWindow(CLng(IE.hwnd), SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED)
And to minimize...
Call ShowWindow(CLng(IE.hwnd), SW_SHOWMINIMIZED)

I hope this is what u want.
All The Best

Atul