Message hook/subclassing

[wvufreelancer]

Hello,

Have an ActiveX control and I am trying to use the Win32API so that when the control is run (which contains an Web Browser Control) and messages that come up will be surpressed. I want the control to run and no matter what ignore any dialog boxes that may try to come up. I know it can be done with either message hooks or sub classing i just don't know how. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Nagrom]

You've got to use the SetWindowLong API to change the default WndProc (function that handles messages sent to the object) for the object. Here's a link to a tutorial that does a decent job of explaining it:

http://www.vb-helper.com/tutorial_subclassing.html

In the example they're subclassing the form itself, but since most controls in VB are Windows themselves it works fine for them too. As long as it has a handle and a WndProc you should be able to use this with no problem.

Just as an aside (and because I find this useful when programming APIs), check out

http://www.mentalis.org/agnet/apiguide.shtml

They have a dowloadable (and free) API reference tool that comes in pretty handy. It doesn't have every API out there, but it's got a lot and does a great job giving info on the paramters, etc - they even have examples for most of them.