IE Automation - HWND throwing error..

[EzLogic]

Weird situation

IE 11
Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit
On this machine.

loIE = CreateObject("InterNetExplorer.Application")
loIE.visible = .t.
loIE.Navigate2(".etc....")

?loIE.HWND && Throws Error..

loIE.navigate2("etc..") && works
loIE.Quit
Release loIE

I am not sure why I cannot see the HWND for the IE
I see it running in the task bar

On my other 4 machines and my dev machine its returning the HWND but, not on this particular machine.

Any idea on how to get the HWND of the IE object? i think it has something to do with it being 64bit

Ez Logic
Michigan

 

[Mike Lewis]

Your code works correctly for me. Obviously it is something specific to your one machine on which it doesn't work, but it's hard to think what that could be. I wouldn't have thought that the fact of it being 64-bit would be relevant, but what do I know.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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[Olaf Doschke]

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit and it's working okay with IE 11.

But like Mike I can't contribute a solution or what to look out for. I have IE in protected mode, but still can get HWND, otherwise I would have tested that setting, which was automation unfriendly, as it was introduced with IE9.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[vgulielmus]

Just tested on a machine with
IE 11
Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit

But no problems encountered.


Respectfully,
Vilhelm-Ion Praisach
Resita, Romania

 

[EzLogic]

It works on windows 10 and windows 7 machine and my other laptop and almost 1500 other clients i have.

I ran into 2 clients, where it works on their other machines, but, 1 of their machines (each), had weird situation

I personally logged in to their machines, installed my own tool which gives me IDE of VFP (dbu) and i could not get the HWND

I do believe it has something to do with how IE is configured on 64bit only or something.. but, so weird i cannot get the hwnd of IE

Ez Logic
Michigan

 

[Olaf Doschke]

As said by three of us now, 64bit is not the problem.
I also just tested on Windows 8.1 Professional 64bit, again no problem.

Bye, Olaf.