Using bookmarks in local files with the Web Browser control

[Alt255]

I'm trying to build a searchable interlinear bible with VB6. I have tried a couple of options for displaying the Unicode Hebrew and Greek, first using the InkEdit control and then using the web browser control. InkEdit didn't provide a way to programmatically search for a string and scroll there (like the rich text control). I even tried using the SetScrollInfo API (which repositioned the scroll bar to the correct values but didn't reposition the text). I don't know if that is the expected behavior but it isn't what I needed.
So I tried to use the web browser control. It was fairly easy to write 66 HTML pages with bookmarks and hyperlinks but I couldn't figure out a way to go to bookmarks, either in the currently loaded document or in any of the files on disk.
So... does anybody know a way to scroll the web browser control to a bookmark?
Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree. Other than WebKitX (way too expensive), is there an ActiveX that will do what I need? Or any combination of API calls, HTML and-or a third-party ActiveX?

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[Andrzejek]

Would that be any help? Jump to a bookmark in an html page from a VB6 form
But the bigger question here is - why VB6? Nobody is doing any new development in it any more. And soon any new OS may not support apps written in VB6 :-(

---- Andy

"Hmm...they have the internet on computers now"--Homer Simpson

 

[Alt255]

Thanks. Opening a page with #BookmarkName appended to the URL isn't a problem. I can do that with the Web Browser control but it doesn't work with HTML files stored on disk. I could put a BrowserName.Document.body.ScrollTop = BookmarkLocation in DownloadComplete (If I had a reliable way to locate a bookmark in a page.) That really isn't what I was looking for but I would take it. (Better than wasting a half-hour trying make Document.getElementById("MahBookmark").ScrollIntoView work).
Your bigger question, why VB6: I'm an old man and I won't be alive long enough to learn a framework that might be abandoned right after I learn to use it. But thanks for asking


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[strongm]

>InkEdit didn't provide a way to programmatically search for a string and scroll there

Not quite true. It is perfectly feasible to search both an Inkedit control and a rich text control for text and to scroll to that found text through the use of windows Edit control API messages

 

[Alt255]

Strongm, that sounds promising but I don't see a way to implement it (aside from getting an EM_LINEFROMCHAR and using EM_LINESCROLL to go there. I've tried a similar approach (non API) with the browser control using Document.body.ScrollTop and Document.parentWindow.scrollBy (the results haven't been great). How would you do a clean search and scroll on an Inkedit control using the API?


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[strongm]

Ifc you have already been looking at the EM_ messages, then you already are looking at the ideas I am talking about.

 

[Alt255]

Always the teacher, Mike. Thanks.

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